Smalley-Curl Institute | Rice University
The Smalley-Curl Institute supports ground-breaking research and education in the areas of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Quantum Materials, and Quantum Information Science. SCI faculty members represent the spectrum of science and engineering disciplines at Rice, and the Institute fosters collaboration across Rice schools and departments as well as with colleagues in academia, industry, and government institutions around the world. SCI also directs several endowed postdoctoral fellowships and encompasses the Applied Physics Graduate Program, the Rice Quantum Initiative, and the Rice Center for Quantum Materials.
C60 at 40: The impact of the Buckminsterfullerene
How a 1990s Idea Became Today’s Cutting-Edge Materials at Rice University
Trapped-Ion simulation of molecular energy transfer
Carlos Criollo Paredes - Rice Applied Physics Graduate Student
Dicke model and its generalization
Alan Covarrubias - Rice Applied Physics Graduate Student
Rice celebrates 40 years since the discovery of carbon-60 or ‘buckyballs' with two days of events
The rich physics of transition metal dichalcogenides
Designer van der Waals materials for new photonic and phononic properties
Light emission from atomic-scale plasmonic tunnel junctions
Scientists uncover room-temperature route to improved light-harvesting and emission devices
What is a phase matter when a cavity is involved? | Smalley-Curl Institute
Cavity-coupled telecom atomic source for quantum networking | Smalley-Curl Institute
Overcoming the surface paradox | Smalley-Curl Institute
Cavity QED in the ultrastrong coupling regime | Smalley-Curl Institute
Chinecherem Nkele - APP Student & Doerr Ambassador
Elijah Kritzel - Applied Physics Graduate Research Student & NRT C-QED Fellow
NSF REM: EM Project – Siyi Wang | Smalley-Curl Institute
Rice researchers develop superstrong, eco-friendly materials from bacteria
John Bartholomew - 2025 RQI Seminar | Smalley-Curl Institute
Revealing Hidden Quantum Patterns in Supermoiré Materials
Pathways for realizing high-quality single-photon sources for emerging quantum technologies
Gabriela Gagliano - Applied Physics Graduate Research Student
Kono Cup - 2025 Summer Edition
Light-based data made clearer with new machine learning method
TOMODACHI & MACHI Welcome Reception
遠藤 沙恵さん - TOMODACHIリサーチ生
Rice engineers tackle sunlight intermittency in solar desalination
COMSOL Inc. Multiphysics Workshop at Rice University
Hui-Chen Vivian Li - MACHI Research Student