2020
“Behind the Paper Top Ten: 2019,” Nature Research Device and Materials Engineering 10 January 2020. [download pdfabout Nature Research Device and Materials Engineering 10 January 2020]
2019
Charles M. Lieber is awarded the 2019 Welch Award in Chemistry. The Welch Foundation’s Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry, honors highly-respected and influential leaders in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Charles M. Lieber shares his award with A. Paul Alivisatos, who are recognized for their important research contributions which have had a significant, positive impact on humankind. Lieber has provided seminal concepts central to the bottom-up paradigm of nanoscience and has been a leader in the application of nanomaterials.
“The future of mind control,” MedicalXpress 5 September 2019. [download pdf]
“Nanowires pin neurons: a nano “moon landing”,” Matter 4 September 2019. [download pdf]
“Precision electronic medicine in the brain,” Nature Research Bioengineering 2 September 2019.
“Harvard lab has developed method to rapidly produce nanowires to monitor neuron activity,” BioWorld MedTech 8 July 2019.
“New technique speeds creation of nanowire devices boosting research into what’s happening inside cells,” Innovation Toronto 7 July 2019.
“Machine Enhanced Humans Now Closer As Scientists Develop Tiny Scalable Nanoprobes,” High Tech Deck 5 July 2019.
“Nanoprobes access brain’s electric signals,” Electronics Weekly 4 July 2019.
“Arrays of U-shaped nanowire field-effect transistors probe neurons,” eNews Europe 4 July 2019.
“Ultra-small nanoprobes could be a leap forward in high-resolution human-machine interfaces,” ScienceDaily 3 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Nanowire Army Lets Researchers Record Signals From Inside Neurons,” Technology Networks 2 July 2019.
“Combing out a tangled problem,” Harvard Gazette 2 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Combing nanowires,” Harvard CCB News 2 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Combing nanowires,” I-Connect007 2 July 2019.
“New technique lets researchers make thousands of nanowires, capable of recording intracellular signals, at the same time,” Phys.org 1 July 2019.
“Combing nanowire noodles,” EurekAlert! 1 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Combing nanowire noodles,” Bioengineer.org 1 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Combing nanowire noodles,” 7thSpace 1 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Combing nanowire noodles,” Nanowerk 1 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Combing nanowire noodles,” ScienceDaily 1 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Electrophysiology: Curving neural nanobioelectronics,” Nature Nanotechnology News & Views 1 July 2019. [download pdf]
“An array of ‘nano-hairpins’ probes the interior of cells,” Nature Research Device and Materials Engineering 1 July 2019. [download pdf]
“Tricking the Mind,” Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD) 8 June 2019. [download pdf] [view image]
“Slender, neuron-size probes aim for better recordings of brain’s electrical chatter,” Science Magazine 1 May 2019.
“Electronic stealth neurons offer enhanced brain studies and treatments,” NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 26 March 2019. [download pdf] [view image]
“Sensors go undercover to outsmart the brain,” Harvard Gazette 12 March 2019. [download pdf]
“Image of the Day: Imposter Neurons,” The Scientist 1 March 2019. [download pdf] [view image]
“Neuronlike electronics integrate with brain tissue without causing damage,” C&EN 27 February 2019. [download pdf]
“Newly developed probe looks, acts, and feels so much like real neuron,” The Medical News 26 February 2019. [download pdf]
“A welcome stranger,” Harvard CCB News 25 February 2019. [download pdf] [view image]
“New brain implants disguise as neurons, offering a potentially safer way to study and treat the brain,” MedicalXpress 25 February 2019. [download pdf]
“A very human machine,” EurekAlert! 25 February 2019. [download pdf]
“Neuron-like neural probes,” Nature Materials News and Views 25 February 2019. [download pdf]
2018
“Behind Mouse Eyes,” The Scientist 13 November 2018. [view image]
“Seeing Eyes,” Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD) 26 July 2018. [download pdf] [view image]
“Injectable mesh electronics opens up a new window into vision research,” Physics World 28 June 2018. [download pdf]
“Revolutionizing retinal studies,” Harvard CCB News 28 June 2018. [download pdf]
Professor Lieber received Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science from University of Chicago in recognition of his pioneering work in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and his profound contribution as an intellectual, innovator, and educator. Lieber has also received honorary degrees this year from Franklin and Marshall and Union College. See Harvard CCB announcement.
Professor Lieber is awarded the John G. Kirkwood Medal jointly by Yale’s Department of Chemistry and the New Haven Section of the American Chemical Society. This award is presented biennially for outstanding contributions to the field of Chemistry. See Harvard CCB announcement.
2017
“Bioelectronics herald the rise of the cyborg,” Science 358, 1233 (2017). [download pdf]
Congratulations to Anqi Zhang, Jae-Hyun Lee, Sean You, Yunlong Zhao and Professor Lieber for their top-ranking poster presentation “Nanowire Tools for Highly-Localized Studies of Neuronal Cells” at the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) Open House in October 2017! Each year the open house showcases the research CNS users across campus are engaged in, and creates a forum for dialogue and collaboration.
Professor Lieber has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). “These newly elected members represent the most exceptional scholars and leaders in science, medicine, and health in the U.S. and around the globe.” See also Harvard SEAS announcement.
Professor Charles Lieber is awarded the 2017 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. This award recognizes established scientists of exceptional creativity whose high-impact research has the potential to transform biomedical and behavioral science. See also Harvard CCB announcement and Harvard Gazette article. [download pdf]
“Nanobioelectronics: Plug in your brain,” Nature Nanotechnol. 12:836 (2017). [download pdf]
Professor Charles Lieber appointed Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor 1 July 2017. The chair supports “a tenured faculty member who has shown both extraordinary academic accomplishment and leadership within the University community.” The University Professor title itself is Harvard’s highest faculty honor. See also Harvard Magazine announcement. [download pdf]
“Your brain on mesh,” Phys.org 5 July 2017. [download pdf]
Lieber lab syringe-injectable mesh electronics featured in the “Harvard Brain Science Initiative’s” new “PubMed Playlists,” a bimonthly report of “ten fascinating tales from diverse arenas of brain science, all found within the Harvard community.” To learn more about the featured research, read our recent paper in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1705509114, 22 May 2017. [download pdf]
“Net electrode probe grows into the brain,” NEYRONET News (Russia) 26 May 2017. [download pdf]
“5 Neuroscience Experts Weigh in on Elon Musk’s Mysterious “Neural Lace” Company,” IEEE Spectrum 12 April 2017. [download pdf]
2016
“Graphene transistors could make electronic bioprobes,” Nanotechweb.org 9 December 2016. [download pdf]
“Tissue engineering: Nanoelectronics for the heart,” Nature Nanotechnology News & Views 11, 738-739 (2016). [download pdf]
“The huge potential of nanotechnology on new Parkinson’s treatments,” Parkinson’s Life 27 October 2016. [download pdf]
“Injectable Wires for Fixing the Brain,” MIT Technology Review 13 October 2016. [download pdf]
“Injectable Nanowires Monitor Mouse Brains for Months,” IEEE Spectrum 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“Syringe-injectable mesh electronics offer researchers the chance to study processes that take place over long time,” ScienceDaily 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?,” Nautilus 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“A new window to understanding the brain,” EurekAlert! 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
Professor Charles Lieber is awarded the Von Hippel Award by the Materials Research Society (MRS). This award, “the MRS’s highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers — brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines.”
“A new window to understanding the brain,” Medical Xpress 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“A New Window to Understanding the Brain,” Neuroscience 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“A New Window to Understanding the Brain,” ScienceNewsline Biology 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“Implanted Probes Provide New Window to the Brain,” Controlled Environment 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“Understanding the Brain by Using Implanted Probes,” MedIndia 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“A new window to understanding the brain,” Health Medicine Network 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“A new window to understanding the brain,” Nano Werk 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“A new window to understanding the brain,” MDT Magazine 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“A new window to understanding the brain,” Biocompare 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“Injectable Nanowires Helps Monitoring Functioning Of Brain,” EngineersGarage 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
“Syringe-injectable mesh electronics offer researchers a new window into the brain ,” PsyPost 29 August 2016. [download pdf]
Prof. Charles Lieber and Ms. Anqi Zhang, along with Dr. Gengfeng Zheng, have published “Nanowires: Building blocks for nanoscience and nanotechnolgy,” a “comprehensive summary of nanowire research in the past decade, from the nanowire synthesis, characterization, assembly, to the device applications.” [download pdf]
“The bionic cardiac patch,” Harvard Gazette 7 Jul 2016. [download pdf]
“‘Bionic’ cardiac patch could one day monitor, respond to cardiac problems,” Science Daily 27 Jun 2016. [download pdf]
“Building a smart cardiac patch,” EurekAlert! (AAAS) 27 Jun 2016. [download pdf]
“Nanowires offer real-time monitoring and control of heart tissue,” IEEE Spectrum 27 Jun 2016. [download pdf]
“Nanoelectronics for the heart,” Nature Nanotechnology | News and Views 27 Jun 2016. [download pdf]
Congratulations to Tao Zhou on being awarded a Simmons’ Award! This award from the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging is made possible by generous funding from the Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Simmons.
Congratulations to Tian-Ming Fu on being awarded a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad! This scholarship, sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), honors overseas Chinese students with outstanding academic accomplishments.
Anqi Zhang is awarded a Certificate of Teaching Excellence by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Congratulations, Anqi!
Jae-Hyun Lee is awarded the Nanotechnology’s Young Researcher Award. Congratulations, Jae! [download pdf]
“Making nanowires enter neurons more easily,” NanoTechWeb.org 18 Jan 2016. [download pdf]
2015
Congratulations to Dr. Guosong Hong on being awarded the prestigious “American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship ” for his research proposal ‘Syringe-Injectable Electronics for Neurological Investigation and Medical Treatment of Stroke.’ The objective of the fellowship is to help initiate careers in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular (e.g., stroke) research by providing research assistance and training.
“Injectable electronics fit right in,” NanoToday 10, 411-532 (2015). [download pdf]
The Lieber laboratory’s brain injectable mesh electronics have been named the “most notable chemistry research advance” of 2015 by Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN).
Professor Lieber has been elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for his “scientific achievements and contributions made to the promoting of the development of science and technology in China.” Election to the CAS is one of the highest honors bestowed by China in the fields of science and technology.
“Scientific American names the Lieber Lab’s injectable electronic brain probes as one of 2015’s top ten world changing ideas.,” Scientific American, December 2015. [download pdf]
“Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring,” Chemistry World, Royal Society of Chemistry, 6 October 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics as a modern day ‘ship in a bottle’,” NPG Asia Materials 7, e214 (2015). [download pdf]
“A flexible mesh to record the brain,” Nature Biotechnology 33, 830 (2015). [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics fit right in,” MaterialsToday 4 August 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable meshes for neural recordings,” Nature Methods 12, 702-703 (2015). [download pdf]
“Novel method creates nanowires with new useful properties,” Nano Werk 20 July 2015. [download pdf]
“Tiny wires, great potential,” Harvard Gazette 17 July 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics fit right in,” NanoToday 14 July 2015. [download pdf]
“Injizierbares gehirn-implantat,” Technology Review (Germany) July 2015. [download pdf]
“Electronics, freshly squeezed,” Science Translational Medicine (AAAS) 7, 295 (2015). [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics,” Physics Today 68, 64 (2015). [download pdf]
Professor Lieber is honored to serve as the “new Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,” beginning 1 July 2015. Professor Lieber joined the Department in 1991, and is committed to applying his experience to strong collaborations and conscientious leadership for a successful future.
“Brain matter mesh,” Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD) 30 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Neuro-Mesh,” Neuropod, June 2015.
“Flexible electronics injected into mouse brains,” C&EN 93, 5 (2015). [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics unfold in the brain, record neurons,” Alzforum 15 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Sprayed electrodes into the brain power,” Specktrum 10 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics promise a better diagnosis and treatment of the brain and other tissues,” Elektronik Informationen 10 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable brain implant spies on individual neurons ,” Scientific American 9 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Electronics for syringes,” Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio), 9 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Electronics delivered to the brain by injection,” AsianScientist.com, 9 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Science has created tiny electronics which can be injected into the brain,” Business Insider Australia, 9 June 2015.
“Rise of the robo-brain: Tiny flexible electronics are inject into the brains of mice to mesh with cells,” DailyMail.com, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injecting electronics into brain not as freaky as it sounds,” NationalGeographic.com, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“A flexible circuit has been injected into living brains,” Smithsonian.com, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable nanoscopic mesh could one day be used to monitor our organs,” PBS Newshour, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Researchers inject tiny, rolled-up electronics into the brain using a syringe,” IFLScience.com, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics: New system holds promise for basic neuroscience, treatment of neuro-degenerative diseases,” ScienceDaily.com, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable electronics unfold to monitor brain activity,” Chemistry World, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Bioelectronics: Injection and unfolding,” Nature Nanotechnology News & Views, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable nanoelectronics for treatment of neuro-degenerative diseases,” Nanowerk News, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Needle injects healing electronics into the brain,” Discovery News, 8 June 2015.
“Injectable electronics holds promise for basic neuroscience, treatment of neuro-degenerative diseases,” PHYS.org, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“Injectable brain implant spies on individual neurons,” Nature News & Comment, 8 June 2015. [download pdf]
“‘Plateau-Rayleigh’ technique grows nanoshells,” Nanotechweb.org, 13 May 2015. [download pdf]
Robert Day and Ruixuan Gao received the Dudley R. Herschbach Teaching Award. The Award recognizes excellence in teaching and dedication to departmental service.
Thomas Schuhmann is awarded a 2015 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. The 2015 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD). NDSEG selections are made by the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Army Research Office (ARO).
2014
Professor Charles Lieber has been listed in Thomson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014 report, and ranks in the top 1% of their Highly Cited Researchers list. [download pdf]
“Support on the cutting edge: Star Family Challenge awards back big ideas in science,” Harvard Gazette, 28 May 2014.
“Array of hope for silicon solar cells,” Nanotechweb.org, 22 March 2014. [download pdf]
“Nanowire nanocomputer in new complexity record,” Nanotechweb.org, 6 February 2014. [download pdf]
“The twain finally meet: Nanowires and nanotubes combined to form intracellular bioelectronic probes,” PHYS.org, 3 February 2014. [download pdf]
“Tiniest bioprobe breaks new size record,” Nanotechweb.org, 23 January 2014. [download pdf]
2013
The National Academy of Inventors announces Charles Lieber as a 2013 NAI Fellow, a “distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.” Click here for a list of all 2013 NAI Fellows.
Charles Lieber is awarded the first ever Nano Research Award. Tsinghua University Press and Springer recognize Professor Lieber with this award “in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to nanoscale science and technology.” [download pdf]
“The Cyborg Era Begins,” Science 340, 1162 (2013). [download pdf]
Charles Lieber is awarded the 2013 IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award. The IEEE Nanotechnology Council Awards Committee recognizes Professor Lieber with this award “for pioneering contributions to nanometer diameter wire synthesis and applications, and defining leadership in nanotechnology.”
“Soft Circuits,” Scientific American 308, 6, 621 (2013). [download pdf]
Our cyborg brain tissue project is on display as part of the London Science Museum’s Who Am I? exhibition. The exhibition explores human identity and how it is affected by new discoveries in biomedical science. On-line content accompanying the exhibition offers additional information on brain science and genetics.
“Charles Lieber is the most recent recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Willard Gibbs Medal,” Biophysical Society Newsletter, May 2013.
“Toward cyborg tissues with self-assembling 3D circuits,” PNAS First Look Blog, 22 April, 2013.
Charles Lieber is awarded the 2013 Willard Gibbs Medal. The Jury of the Willard Gibbs Medal and the American Chemical Society give this award “to publicly recognize eminent chemists who, through years of application and devotion, have brought to the world developments that enable everyone to live more comfortably and to understand this world better.” [read more]
2012
“Researchers merge tissue with nanoelectronics,” NanoToday 7, 481-482 (2012). [download pdf]
“Integrating Man and Machine,” Chemical & Engineering News, 24 December 2012. [download pdf]
“Merging the biological, electronic,” Harvard Gazette, 26 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Artificial tissues with embedded nanoscale sensors,” NanoWiki, 4 September 2012. [download pdf]
““Cyborg” Flesh Created With Nanowires and Human Tissue,” Slate News Channels, 29 August 2012.
“‘Cyborg’ Tissues: Merging Engineered Human Tissues With Bio-Compatible Nanoscale Wires,” Science Daily, 26 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Cyborg tissue is half living cells, half electronics,” New Scientist, 28 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Living tissue is laced with electronic sensors,” Physics World, 29 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Merging the biological and the electronic,” Harvard SEAS News & Events, 26 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Harvard grows first cyborg tissue,” ScienceBlog.com 27 August 2012. [download pdf]
“First-ever artificial ‘cyborg’ tissue developed,” Business Standard, 28 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Sensing cyborg tissues now feasible,” Gen. Eng. & Biotechnol. News, 27 August 2012. [download pdf]
“‘Cyborg’ tissues: Merging engineered human tissues with bio-compatible nanoscale wires,” ScienceDaily, 27 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Cyborg tissue monitors cells,” Technology Review, 27 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Merging tissue and electronics,” MIT News, 27 August 2012. [download pdf]
“Alivisatos and Lieber win Wolf Prize in Chemistry,” Chem. Eng. News 23 April 2012, p. 41. [download pdf]
“Nanodevices measure bioelectricity,” Research Highlights, Nature Biotechnol. 30, 333 (2012). [download pdf]
“A ‘nano’ era for electrophysiology,” Research Highlights, Nature Methods 9, 321 (2012). [download pdf]
“Nanoscience provides new tips on probing cells,” News & Opinions, NanoToday 7, 1-5 (2012). [download pdf]
“Getting close to the action,” News & Views in Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 143-145 (2012). [download pdf]
“Nanoscale transistor measures living cell voltages,” MRS Bulletin 37, 184-186 (2012). [download pdf]
“Silicon nanowire FET-integrated nanopore sensor uses local electrical potential detection as a novel method for DNA sequencing,” MRS Bulletin 37, 101 (2012). [download pdf]
“Tiny holes with great promise,” News & Views in Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 81-82 (2012). [download pdf]
Charles Lieber is awarded 2012 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. The Wolf Foundation of Israel gives these prizes annually to outstanding scientists and artists “for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples.” [read more]
“Professor Charles Lieber Receives Israel’s Wolf Prize,” Harvard Gazette, 12 January 12. [download pdf]
“Famed Tenor Placido Domingo 1 of 8 Winners of Israel’s Prestigious Wolf Prize,” Washington Post, 10 January 2012. [download pdf]
“Placido Domingo Wins Israel Wolf Prize,” Huffington Post, 10 January 2012. [download pdf]
“Watching DNA Charge Ahead,” Science, Editors’ Choice, 19 January 2012. [download pdf]
“Next Generation: Sneaking into a Cell,” The Scientist, 18 January 2012. [download pdf]
“Oxford Nanopore Technologies Opens US R&D Group to Focus on Solid-State Detection Methods,” GenomeWeb In Sequence, 17 January 2012. [download pdf]
“Reading Life’s Building Blocks,” Harvard Gazette, 5 January 2012. [download pdf] [Harvard home page news]
2011
“Nanotransistor Boosts Sensitivity of Gene Sequencer, Meridian Institute News, 22 December 2011. [download pdf]
“Improved Sensor for Faster Nanopore DNA Sequencing, NextBigFuture.com, 23 December 2011. [download pdf]
“Nanotransistor Boosts Sensitivity of Gene Sequencer, KurzWeil, 22 December 2011. [download pdf]
“Nanotransistor Boosts Sensitivity of Gene Sequencer,” IEEE Spectrum, December 2011. [download pdf] [Chinese translation]
“On the Outside, Looking In,” Nature Asia-Pacific, Research Journal Highlights 19 December 2011. [download pdf]
“Ultra-Thin Electronics Bend to Your Eyes,” Discovery News, 22 November 2011. [download pdf]
“Teeny Tiny Chips,” ScienceNews, 12 March 2011. [download pdf]
“Lab Partnership Develops Programmable Nanoprocessor,” The Harvard Crimson, 11 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers at Harvard and MITRE produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” Science Codex, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Harvard and MITRE produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” RandDMag, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers at Harvard and MITRE produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor with potential for 2 Terahertz switching,” NextBigFuture, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“‘World’s first’ nanoprocessor offers advances in future electronics,” NewElectronics, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” LabSpaces, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“The World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor Takes Complex Circuitry to the Nanoscale,” Brainicane, 10 February 2011.
“World’s first programmable nanoprocessor developed,” BritainNews, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Harvard University part of nanotech breakthrough,” Boston Business Journal, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“MITRE and Harvard University Develop World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor,” AzoNanotechnology, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Building “bottom-up” circuits using nanowires,” Ars Technica, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“World’s first programmable nanoprocessor developed,” Sify News, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Nanowire processor signals route to ever-smaller chips,” BBC News, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“World’s first programmable nanoprocessor unveiled,” TechEYE.net, 10 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Scientists build first reprogrammable nanoprocessor,” Smartplanet.com, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“MITRE Corp., Harvard University announce nanotech breakthrough,” Washington Business Journal, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“The Smallest Computing Systems Yet,” Technology Review, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Scaled-Down Success: Programmable Logic Tiles Could Form Basis of Nanoprocessors,” Scientific American, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers at Harvard and MITRE produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” Bioscience Technology, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Feynman’s Nanocomputer a Big Step Closer,” Scientific Computing, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers at Harvard and MITRE produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” e! Science News, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” Nanowerk News, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“The World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor Takes Complex Circuitry to the Nanoscale,” PopSci.com, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers produce world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” PhysOrg.com, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor: Nanowire Tiles Can Perform Arithmetic and Logical Functions,” ScienceDaily.com, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Researchers at Harvard and MITRE produce the world’s first programmable nanoprocessor,” EurekAlert, 9 February 2011 [download pdf]
“What ultra-tiny nanocircuits can do,” Harvard Gazette, 9 February 2011. [download pdf]
“Harvard Team Makes Programmable Logic from Nanowires,” IEEE Spectrum, February 2011 [download pdf]
“Criss-crossed nanowires can compute,” Nature, 9 February 2011. [download pdf] [podcast]
“Virus-Sized Transistors,” Harvard Magazine, January-February 2011. [download pdf]
2010
“A Wire for Spying on Cells,” Chemical Year in Review 2010, Chem. Eng. News 88, 13-17 (2010). [download pdf]
“Photonics: Cooking up hot lasers,” NPG Asia Materials Featured Highlight, 8 November 2010. [download pdf]
“ SEAS Students Sweep 2010 Collegiate Inventors Awards,” Harvard Gazette, 3 November 2010. [download pdf]
“Winners discover ways to improve drug testing and manufacture composite structural poles,” Collegiate Inventors Competition Press Release, PR Newswire 27 October 2010. [download pdf]
“Reading cells from within,” Nature Methods 7, 780-781 (2010). [download pdf]
“NanoFET bioprobe,” Physics Today, 1 September 2010. [download pdf]
“Nanoprobe can measure cell activity in real-time,” SmartPlanet.com, 17 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Tiny cell transistor,” Research Highlight, Nature 446, 904 (2010). [download pdf]
“Nano-Wiretap Device Can Probe and Monitor Cells in Real Time,” PopSci.com, 13 August 2010. [download pdf]
” Harvard’s Tiny Probes Painless to Living Cells,” DailyTech.com, 13 August 2010. [download pdf]
“A Wire for Spying on Cells,” Chem. Eng. News, 13 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Nanowires in Cells,” BBC World Service – Science in Action, 13 August 2010. [download podcast (mp3)]
“Nano “Wiretap” Spies on Cells,” National Geographic Daily News, 12 August 2010. [download pdf]
“New peephole into animal cells!,” The Why Files, 12 August 2010 [download pdf].
“Scientists Peek Inside Living Cells With Tiny Electronics,” TechNewsDaily, 12 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Nanosensor peers inside cell,” TheScientist.com, 12 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Nanowire-tapping cells,” RSC | Chemistry World, 12 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Delicate touch,” Harvard Gazette, 12 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Tiny Probes Measure Signals Inside Cells,” Technology Review, 12 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Nano-hairpin peeks into cells,” Nature News, 12 August 2010. [download pdf]
“Graphene for bioelectronics,” Nanotechweb.org, 26 February 2010. [download pdf]
“Nanowire Arrays Map Neural Circuits,” Chemical and Engineering News, 25 January 2010. [download pdf]
“Nanowire Platform for Mapping Neural Circuits,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 107, 4489-4490 (2010). [download pdf]
2009
“Surprising Steps Forward in Solar Cells Thanks to Nano Chemistry,” ScienceWatch.com, May/June 2009 [download pdf]. Tian et al.’s 2007 Nature paper on the use of silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectric power sources has been continuously ranked as a top ten paper in the field of chemistry since Nov-Dec 2008. See What’s Hot in Chemistry.
“Untangling the Brain: From Neuron to Mind,” Harvard Magazine, May-June 2009. [download pdf]
“Nanowire network measures cells’ electrical signals,” New Scientist, 22 April 2009. [download pdf]
“Better way to wire up cells,” Technology Review, 21 April 2009. [download pdf]
“Improved nanowire-cell connections,” Chemical & Engineering News, 20 April 2009. [download pdf]
“Nanowire transistors, lasers and hetero-engineering,” SemiconductorTODAY, Vol.3, Issue 10, Technology Focus, December 2008/January 2009 [download pdf]
2008
“Tuning lasers at the nanoscale,” Materials Today, November 2008. [download pdf]
“Quantum wells meet nanowires,” Nature Photonics, October 2008. [download pdf]
“Nine Harvard faculty among 47 named Pioneers, Innovators by NIH,” Harvard University Gazette, 25 September 2008, pp. 3-4. [download pdf]
Lieber receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. [Pioneer Award Recipients]
“Nanolaser tunes in excess of 100 nm,” Optics.org, 29 August 2008. [download pdf]
Lieber receives the Einstein Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Lieber awarded the honor of MRS Fellow, 16 February 2008.
“Nanowire-based photovoltaics build small powerful solar cells,” Advanced Materials & Processes, January 2008. [download pdf]
Our paper “Nanowire-Based Biosensors” published in Analytical Chemistry is one of the Most-Cited Articles published in 2006 cited through the period ending 31 December 2007. [download pdf]
2007
Nanowire solar cell work is one of the 2007 Chemistry highlights in C&EN, 24 December 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanowire powers pH meter,” C&EN, October 2007. [download pdf]
“Silicon does it alone,” Nature Materials, November 2007. [download pdf]
Our paper “Chemistry and Physics in One Dimension: Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires and Nanotubes,” published in Accounts of Chemical Research, is being recognized as a “Highly Cited Paper” in October 2007. [download pdf]
Our paper “Doping and Electrical Transport in Silicon Nanowires” is one of the most-accessed articles published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B in the third quarter of 2007. [download pdf]
“Photovoltaics made of nanowires could lead to cheaper solar panels” MIT Technology Review, 18 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanowire silicon solar cell for powering small circuits” IEEE Spectrum, 18 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Solar cells thinner than hair strand” Times of India, 18 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanowire generates its own spart” News in Science, 18 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Powering nanoelectronics with light” Agence France-Presse, 18 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Super-thin solar cells developed for nanoelectronics” Treehugger.com, 18 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Invisible solar nano-cells promise clean energy” ZDNet Australia, 18 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanowire generates its own electricity” HarvardScience, 17 October 2007. [link]
“Light-harvesting nanowire could drive tiny devices” NewScientistTech, 17 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells” Science Centric, 17 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Shining a new light on nanowires” RSC Chemistry World, 17 October 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanowires charge towards integration” Nature Nanotechnology, 30 September 2007. [download pdf]
“‘Blow Bubble’ Method Disperses Nanostructures Over Large Areas” PhysOrg, 22 June 2007. [download pdf]
“Vista Therapeutics Inc. will exploit the vast potential of nanowire technology in biomedicine.”
“From plastic bags to nanowire arrays” Materials Today, July-August 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanotechnik zum Aufblasen” F.A.Z. (German science newspaper), 20 June 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanotech bubbles” Science News, 9 June 2007. [download pdf]
“Blowing bubbles for nanoelectronics from C&EN” C&EN, 5 June 2007. [download pdf]
“Tangled nanotubes ordered neatly by bubbles” Nanotechbuzz.com, 5 June 2007. [download pdf]
“As easy as blowing bubbles” Nanotech Web, 5 June 2007. [download pdf]
“Bubbles may pave way for producing nanoscale electronic components” Yahoo, 1 June 2007. [download pdf]
“Practical Nanowire Devices” MIT Technology Review, 31 May 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanotechnology meets bubbleology” Nature Nanotechnology, June 2007. [download pdf]
“Blowing bubbles-from cling wrap to nanotechnology electronics” NanoWerk, 31 May 2007. [download pdf]
“Nanocomposites from bubbles” RSC, chemistryworld, 29 May 2007. [download pdf]
“Bubbles offer solution to nanotube tangles” New Scientist Tech., 27 May 2007. [download pdf]
2006
“Top Five Nanotech Breakthroughs Of 2006,” Forbes, 27 December 2006. [download pdf]
“Super-semiconducting Nanowires,” Nature Nanotechnology, December 2006. [download pdf]
“Biotechnology: Axon, ax-off,” Nature Nanotechnology, 8 September 2006. [download pdf]
“Getting nanowires on the brain,” nanotechweb.org, 31 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Merger of Nanowires and Neurons Could Boost Efforts to Measure and Understand Brain Activity,” Nanotechnology World, 2x August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowire arrays meet neurons,” Chemical & Engineering News, 28 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowires listen in on neurons,” Nanotechnology.com, 27 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowires Listen In on Neurons,” Technology Review, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Harvard scientists use nanowires to connect neurons,” Solid State Technology, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Artificial synapses created between nanoelectronic devices and mammalian neurons,” RxPG News, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Cyborgs A Step Closer To Reality With Silicon Neurons?” QJ.NET, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“An integrated neuron-nanowire device,” The Neurophilosopher’s blog, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowires To Monitor Neurons,” Neuromarketing, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowires To Monitor Neurons,” Futurelab’s Blog, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowires touch a nerve,” The Engineer Online, 25 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Neuron forms links with silicon nanowires,” New Scientist Tech, 24 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons,” Nanotechwire.com, 24 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons,” Harvard Gazette, 24 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons,” EurekAlert!, 24 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Biotronics branches out,” Chemistry World, 24 August 2006. [download pdf]
“Moving diagnostics from the bench to the bedside,” Nature Biotechnology, August 2006. [download pdf]
“Best nanowire transistors yet,” Materials Today, July-August 2006 [download pdf]
“Boffins claim nanowires are chip future,” The Inquirer, 21 June 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowire Transistors Faster than Silicon,” Technology Review, 20 June 2006. [download pdf]
“Materials Science: Inorganic Electronics Begin to Flex Their Muscle,” Science, 16 June 2006. [download pdf]
“Nano World: Superior nanowire transistors,” PhysOrg.com, 30 May 2006. [download pdf]
“Abstractions: Last Author,” Nature, 25 May 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowire transistors outperform silicon switches,” New Scientist Tech, 24 May 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanowire transistors outperform MOSFETs,” nanotechweb.org, 24 May 2006. [download pdf]
“Hybrid Nanowire Components Show Promise for Photonics,” Photonics Spectra, April 2006. [download pdf]
“Nanoscale photodiode,” Lab on a chip, February 2006. [download pdf]
“Holographic Optical Traps Manipulate and Assemble Multiple Nanowires,” Photonics Spectra, January 2006. [download pdf]
2005
“Making the world’s smallest gadgets even smaller,” Nanotechwire.com, 18 December 2005. [download pdf]
“Making the world’s smallest gadgets even smaller,” Harvard Gazette, 8 December 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanotechnology Takes Aim at Cancer,” Science, 18 November 2005. [download pdf]
“Detecting cancer markers with nanowires,” Analytical Chemistry, 1 November 2005. [download pdf]
“Protein Detection Goes Down to the Wire,” Nature Methods, November 2005. [download pdf]
“Drugstore Cancer Tests,” Technology Review, 31 October 2005. [download pdf]
The Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology has selected our paper “GaN nanowire lasers with low lasing thresholds,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 173111 (2005) for inclusion in their 31 October 2005 issue. [download pdf]
News Report on our Nature Biotechnology paper, Nikkei Nano Business, 18 October 2005. [download pdf in Japanese]
The Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology has selected our paper “Semiconductor nanowire laser and nanowire waveguide electro-optic modulators,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 151103 (2005) for inclusion in their 17 October 2005 issue. [download pdf]
“Plasma Science, Thin Films, and Nanotech Dominate AVS Symposium,” Physics Today, October 2005. [download pdf]
“Diagnostics at the femtoscale,” Nature Biotechnology, October 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires spot cancer markers in blood,” nanotechweb.org, 30 September 2005. [download pdf]
“New cancer detector developed that’s fast, sensitive, reliable,” Harvard Gazette, 29 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires can detect molecular signs of cancer, scientists find,” BrightSurf.com, 26 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires can detect molecular signs of cancer, Harvard scientists find,” Nanotechwire.com, 25 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires for detecting molecular signs of cancer,” MediLexicon, 24 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires can detect molecular signs of cancer,” Science Blog, 23 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires detect molecular signs of cancer,” PhysOrg.com, 23 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires Can Detect Molecular Signs of Cancer,” National Prostate Cancer Coalition, 23 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires Can Detect Molecular Signs Of Cancer, Scientists Find,” Nanotechnology Now, 23 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires can detect molecular signs of cancer, scientists find,” EurekAlert!, 23 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires Can Detect Molecular Signs Of Cancer,” Bio.com, 23 September 2005. [download pdf]
“Molecular-Scale Si Nanowires Enable Coherent Single-Charge Transport,” MRS Bulletin, August 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanotechnology news in brief: The Foresight Nanotech Institute,” nanotechweb.org, 1 July 2005. [download pdf]
“Painting Nanowires Yields High-Speed Circuits,” Photonics Spectra, July 2005. [download pdf]
“Team Develops Nanowire Rings,” Harvard Crimson, 3 May 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowires Assemble into Speedy Circuits: Technique could allow creation of lower cost electronic devices,” Betterhumans, 2 May 2005. [download pdf]
“Painting nanowires into circuits,” nanotechweb.org, 29 April 2005. [download pdf]
“High-speed integrated nanowire circuits,” China View, 28 April 2005. [download pdf]
“Harvard Scientists Create High-speed Integrated Nanowire Circuits,” ScienceDaily, 28 April 2005. [download pdf]
“Harvard Scientists Create High-speed Integrated Nanowire Circuits,” Nanotechwire.com, 28 April 2005. [download pdf]
“Scientists create high-speed nanowire circuits: Low-temperature fabrication and high-quality results could reduce electronics’ reliance on silicon,” Harvard Gazette, 28 April 2005. [download pdf]
“Scientists create high-speed integrated nanowire circuits,” PhysOrg.com, 27 April 2005. [download pdf]
“Harvard scientists create high-speed integrated nanowire circuits,” EurekAlert!, 27 April 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowire sensors pass drugs test,” Materials Update, 24 February 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanowire sensor could help drug discovery,” nanotechweb.org, 23 February 2005. [download pdf]
“Nanotubes in the Clean Room: Talismans of a thousand graduate projects may soon make their way into electronic memories,” Scientific American, February 2005. [download pdf]
“Lieber Appointed Coeditor Of Nano Letters,” Chemical & Engineering News, 31 January 2005. [download pdf]
“Thinking Small: From quantum materials design to “voodoo physics” in the nanoscientists’ weird world,” Harvard Magazine, January-February 2005. [download pdf]
“Colourful Assemblies,” Nature Materials, January 2005. [download pdf]
“First nanowire n-type devices,” Materials Today, January 2005. [download pdf]
2004
“TRN’s Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004,” Technology Research News, 29 December 2004. [download pdf]
“Optical Waveguiding Observed in CdS Nanowires,” MRS Bulletin, December 2004. [download pdf]
“Nanowires shed a blue light on photonics,” Materials Today, November 2004. [download pdf]
“Nanowires show potential as virus detectors,” The Lancet Infectious Diseases, November 2004. [download pdf]
“Biochip spots single viruses,” Technology Research News, 20 October 2004. [download pdf]
“Nanodevices target viruses,” nanotechweb.org, 11 October 2004. [download pdf]
“Nanodevices target viruses,” PhysicsWeb, 8 October 2004. [download pdf]
“Sensor detects, identifies single viruses: Early warning for disease and bioterrorism,” Harvard Gazette, 7 October 2004. [download pdf]
“Harvard Scientists Find Nanowires Capable Of Detecting Individual Viruses,” Nanotechwire.com, 27 September 2004. [download pdf]
“Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses: Findings could point the way to ultra-powerful new diagnostic tools and bioterror detectors,” EurekAlert!, 22 September 2004. [download pdf]
“Lighting Up with Nanowires,” Reactive Reports, September 2004. [download pdf]
“Label-Free Methods Are Not Problem Free: Label-free, optical, acoustic, and calorimetric analytical methods do not alter the protein of interest, but they have complications of their own Diagram of typical biosensor mechanisms,” Drug Discovery & Development, September 2004. [download pdf]
“A giant step toward miniaturization: Nanotechnology makes the right connections,” Harvard Gazette, 22 July 2004. [download pdf]
“Metallic Contacts to the Nanoworld: Method fashions nanosized electrical leads on nanoscale semiconductors,” Chemical & Engineering News, 5 July 2004. [download pdf]
“Nanowires get connected: Nickel vapour creates tiny transistor network,” Nature Science Update, 1 July 2004. [download pdf]
30 June 04
“Hybrid nano-wires provide link to silicon” NewScientist.com [download pdf]
“Nanodevice connections leap forward” Nanotechweb.org [download pdf]
9 June 04
“Lithography makes a connection for nanowire devices” Nanotechweb.org [download pdf]
June 04
“Nanowires branch out” Materials Today [download pdf]
“Five elected to National Academy of Sciences,” Harvard Gazette, 22 April 2004. [download pdf]
20 Apr 04
Lieber is elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
“72 New Members Chosen by Academy” NAS News Office [download pdf]
15 Apr 04
“Silicon branches out” Nature Materials Update [download pdf]
1 March 04
“DNA detection on a wire” Analytical Chemistry [download pdf]
“Cheaper, Faster Electronics,” American Ceramic Society Bulletin, February 2004. [download pdf]
20 January 04
“The next small thing” The Boston Globe [download pdf]
19 January 04
“Pursuit of a Small Tech Building Block Goes Down to the Nanowire” Small Times [download pdf]
Lieber wins the ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials.
“2004 ACS National Award Winners” Chemical & Engineering News [download pdf]
15 January 04
“Nanowires track down mutants” Nature Materials Update [download pdf]
3 January 04
“Ultrasensitive nanowires catch mutations” Science News [download pdf]
2003
“Nanowire Sensors To Provide Immediate Medical Test Results,” FuturePundit.com, 17 December 2003. [download pdf]
“Tiny nanowire could be next big diagnostic tool for doctors,” EurekAlert.org, 16 December 2003. [download pdf]
Lieber wins the Scientific American award in Nanotechnology and Molecular Electronics. “Scientific American 50,” Scientific American, December 2003. [download pdf]
“Forget What You Know About Nanotech,” Business 2.0, 7 November 2003. [download pdf]
“Nanowire film brings cheaper, faster electronics a step closer,” EurekAlert.org, 6 November 2003. [download pdf]
“FETs and LEDs on glass and plastic substrates,” STP-Gateway, 28 October 2003. [download pdf]
“Nanowire devices bend and flex,” nanotechweb.org, 22 October 2003. [download pdf]
“Rapid Assembly,” Chemical & Engineering News, 25 August 2003. [download pdf]
“Getting wires crossed for nanocomputing,” Nature Materials Update, 21 August 2003. [download pdf]
“Nanowire arrays line up for future devices,” nanotechweb.org, 15 August 2003. [download pdf]
“Lieber wins 2003 World Technology Award,” Harvard Gazette, 27 June 2003. [download pdf]
“Coming Soon to a Clinic Near You: Nanotechnology in Medicine,” Innovation Magazine, March 2003. [download pdf]
“Nanotechnology’s Power Brokers,” Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report, March 2003. [download pdf]
“Electrically Driven Nanowire Lasers,” Nature Materials, February 2003. [download pdf]
“Nanowire lasers go electric,” nanotechweb.org, 16 January 2003. [download pdf]
“Slimline lasers could bring light onto chips,” Nature Materials Update, 16 January 2003. [download pdf]
“Lasers slim enough for chips,” Nature Science Update, 16 January 2003. [download pdf]
2002
“Scientists shell out on nanowires,” nanotechweb.org, 8 November 2002. [download pdf]
“Nanoscientists named in ‘Brilliant 10,’” nanotechweb.org, 8 October 2002. [download pdf]
“Nanowires take the prize,” Materials Today, February 2002. [download pdf]