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The Lieber group is focused broadly on science and technology at the nanoscale, using novel synthesized building blocks to push scientific boundaries in diverse areas from biology/medicine to energy and computing.

Realization of new materials can enable revolutionary advances in science and technology. The Lieber group leads in the design and synthesis of new nanomaterials, with precise control of morphology, structure, and composition on multiple length scales.

We are focused on defining the fundamental science, engineering and novel technologies at the interface between nanoelectronics and biology, from disease marker detection to fundamental cell nano-electrophysiology through development of novel hybrid tissue.

We are focused on the development and assembly of nanowire devices, arrays and systems for nanoelectronics and computing with an emphasis on the design and realization of two- and three-dimensional circuits and nanoprocessors.

We are focused on several nano-enabled energy directions, including development of novel next-generation nanowire photovoltaic elements and nanoelectrode platforms for elucidating and enhancing electron transfer mechanisms in microbial fuel cells.

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  • Nano-Enabled Energy

News & Highlights

  • Getting  Close to the Action
    Getting Close to the Action Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 143-145 (2012) - News and Views

    Nanowire field-effect transistors can make electrical measurements in living cells with unprecedented spatial resolution (Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 174-179 (2012)).

  • Charles Lieber is awarded the 2012 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his seminal contributions to nanochemistry, particularly the synthesis, characterization and applications of semiconductor nanowires
    Charles Lieber is awarded the 2012 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his seminal contributions to nanochemistry, particularly the synthesis, characterization and applications of semiconductor nanowires

    See news stories and information about the Wolf Foundation and Wolf Prize in Chemistry on our news page.

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  • Tiny Holes with Great Promise
    Tiny Holes with Great Promise Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 81-82 (2012) - News and Views

    Sensors that combine solid-state nanopores and nanowire field-effect transistors can be used to detect single DNA molecules quickly and with high sensitivity (Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 119-125 (2012))

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  • Ultra-thin Electronics Bend to Your Eyes
    Ultra-thin Electronics Bend to Your Eyes Discovery News, November 2011

    A new way of making carbon-based electronics creates ultra-flexible, thin sensors, thanks to the work of Jang-Ung Park, of UNIST, and SungWoo Nam, now at UC Berkeley, both former Lieber group members (Nature Mater. 11, 120-125 (2012)).

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  • Bozhi Tian wins 2011 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists
    Bozhi Tian wins 2011 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists

    Bozhi Tian wins one of six IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists for his thesis work on nanowire structures for photovoltaics and intracellular probes.

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  • Group members take Gold, Silver and Best Poster at MRS
    Group members take Gold, Silver and Best Poster at MRS

    Lieber group members SungWoo Nam and Tom Kempa won Gold and Silver Graduate Student Awards, respectively, at the MRS 2011 Spring Meeting in San Francisco;  Hwan Sung Choe won Best Poster Award.

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Recent Publications

  • T. Cohen-Karni, D. Casanova, J. Cahoon, Q. Qing, D. Bell and C.M. Lieber, "Synthetically-encoded ultrashort-channel nanowire transistors for fast, point-like cellular signal detection,"," Nano Lett. 12, 2639-2644 (2012).

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  • Z. Jiang, Q. Qing, P. Xie, R. Gao and C.M. Lieber, "Kinked p-n junction nanowire probes for high spatial resolution sensing and intracellular recording," Nano Lett. 12, 1711-1716 (2012).

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  • P. Xie, Q. Xiong, Y. Fang, Q. Qing and C.M. Lieber, "Local electrical potential detection of DNA by nanowire-nanopore sensors," Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 119-125 (2012).

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  • J.-U. Park, S. Nam, M.-S. Lee and C.M. Lieber, "Synthesis of monolithic graphene-graphite integrated electronics," Nature Mater. 11, 120-125 (2012)

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  • T.J. Kempa, J.F. Cahoon, S.-K. Kim, R.W. Day, D.C. Bell, H.-G. Park and C.M. Lieber, "Coaxial multishell nanowires with high-quality electronic interfaces and tunable optical cavities for ultrathin photovoltaics," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Early Edition, 19 January 2012.

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  • Y. Hu, F. Kuemmeth, C.M. Lieber and C.M. Marcus, “Hole spin relaxation in Ge/Si core-shell nanowire qubits,” Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 47-50 (2012).

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  • X. Duan, R. Gao, P. Xie, T. Cohen-Karni, Q. Qing, H.S. Choe, B. Tian, X. Jiang and C.M. Lieber, “Intracellular recordings of action potentials by an extracellular nanoscale field-effect transistor,” Nature Nanotechnol. 7, 174-179 (2012)

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