Talking about carbon, one automatically thinks of carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. But there is much more to this broad subject area. Advances in graphene research, templating methods, and the emergence of nanodiamonds make this field a rich area of research. The...

Not being able to accurately forecast sunny, cloudy, or rainy conditions isn’t great. But for one Saudi Arabia-based professor, our unpredictable weather sparked an idea for how to truly secure electronic communication. Read the whole interview on WIRED here

An ultra-dark material developed in Saudi Arabia is no mere fashion statement: its ability to soak up the rays promises to boost solar-cell efficiency. Silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) solar panels have a maximum theoretical absorption capacity of about 30 percent,...

We are delighted to announce that our article "Perfect secrecy cryptography via mixing of chaotic waves in irreversible time-varying silicon chips" was the most read Nature Communications physics articles in 2019, ranked No. 1. The journal published more than 5,500...

Andrea Fratalocchi has been elected as a Fellow of the OSA. The citation reads: "For pioneering innovations in the use of complex optical systems and the development of creative technologies in clean energy harvesting, bio-imaging, and advanced optical materials" Read...

Arturo Burguete Lopez was awarded second place at the Falling Walls lab competition that took place at KAUST last Tuesday. Falling walls is an intenational conference on future breakthroughs in science and society. Every year, a global competition selects 100...

Congratulations to former PhD students Marcella Bonifazi and Valerio Mazzone for ther recent integration to the University of Zurich's Disordered and Biological Soft Matter research group as post-doctoral researcher. The University of Zurich is a top University...

PhD students Fedor Getman, Maksim Makarenko and Arturo Burguete Lopez have submitted, alongside Andrea Fratalocchi, for a patent in the United States for a new ultraflat meta-optics technology for wavefront egineering. The patent USPTO application 62/799,324,...

Our PhD student Changxu Liu scored an impressive record recently by winning 2 prestigious fellowships at the same time: the LMU fellowship (from Munich University) and Humboldt Foundation fellowship. Changxu currently holds a post-doctoral position with the group of...