Water is the most abundant liquid on Earth, but the more scientists study it, the more surprises they seem to find. That’s nowhere more true than with UNL’s Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. A pioneer in the study of one-dimensional ice, Zeng with his team at UNL used supercomputers 10 years ago to model […]
ORCA is latest honor for chemist After earning a Guggenheim Fellowship, being named an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow, a university professor, and having seven major discoveries published in the three major science journals in a nine-year period, it’s almost no surprise that Xiao Cheng Zeng is in the headlines again for […]
Sometimes in science, new research pathways are generated by unexpected suggestions. That’s what led Xiao Cheng Zeng and his research group to their latest series of discoveries about the behavior of materials – especially water – at extremes of temperature, pressure and confinement. Zeng gave a talk in 2008 to the Materials Research Society in […]
Eye tracking A UNL-led research team found clues suggesting human vision can lock in on certain targets more quickly if not searching for a specific item. The research was led by Mike Dodd, a UNL professor of psychology. He worked with researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and the University of Iowa to track […]
Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water – all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at UNL and Japan’s RIKEN institute. Humans have marveled for millennia at how water beads up and rolls off flowers, caterpillars and some insects, and […]
