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  • Nanolithography: Named one of "100 Scientific Discoveries that Changed the World"

    The recently published National Geographic special issue titled "100 Scientific Discoveries That Changed the World," leads off with a research program that began in 1997 when the Air Force Office of Scientific Research funded a Northwestern University researcher by the name of Chad Mirkin. AFOSR took a chance on a process called Dip-Pen
  • The Air Force Office of Scientific Research will host its annual Spring Review from 5 through 9 March, 2012. This program review, to be held at 950 Glebe Road, Suite 210, in Arlington, Virginia, will be the 55th formally designated annual assessment of AFOSR’s research portfolio. It will also be streamed live online. For more information, visit https://community.apan.org/afosr/spring_review_2012.

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research Hosts Annual Program Spring Review

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) will soon host its annual Spring Review from 5 through 9 March, 2012. This program review, to be held at 950 Glebe Road, Suite 210, in Arlington, Virginia, will be the 55th formally designated annual assessment of AFOSR's research portfolio. Since its establishment in 1951, AFOSR has been

  • 2010 Nobel Winner Andre Geim Explores New Graphene Property

    Andre Geim and his team at the University of Manchester continue the quest to uncover unique and unexpected graphene properties. A mysterious new property of graphene has been discovered by one of the British Nobel Prize-winning scientists who first created what has been described as a new "wonder material."It was less than two years ago that

  • Air Force hosts computer scientist at anniversary celebration

    On Jan. 30, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington, Va., hosted a presentation by computer scientist Dr. Dina Katabi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Katabi's presentation was part of a continuing series of events planned throughout the coming year as part of AFOSR's 60th anniversary celebration. Dr. Katabi

  • Polarization Imaging: Seeing Through the Fog of War

    New circular polarizing filter may replace existing multi-layer approach to achieve the ability to see through dust and clouds. As sophisticated as the human eye is, it does not compare to what the latest scientific achievement has to offer in enhancing what can be visually perceived. Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR),

  • Knighthoods for Nobel-winning Graphene Pioneers

    Two Nobel laureates funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), involved in the creation and isolation of graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, have received British knighthoods from the Queen of England. Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, from the University of Manchester, Great Britain, won the 2010

  • AFOSR Awards Grants to 48 Scientists and Engineers through its Young Investigator Research Program

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research today announced it will award approximately $18 million in grants to 48 scientists and engineers who submitted winning research proposals through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program. The YIP is open to scientists and engineers at research institutions across the United States who received

  • Graphene: Impressive Capabilities on the Horizon

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), along with other funding agencies, helped a Rice University research team make graphene suitable for a variety of organic chemistry applications--especially the promise of advanced chemical sensors, nanoscale electronic circuits and metamaterials. Ever since the University of Manchester's Andre

  • Transparent Material Breakthrough: One of Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2011

    A program co-funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) was chosen by Time Magazine for its List of Best Inventions of 2011. Drs Ali Aliev, Yuri Gartstein and Ray Baughman, of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), have succeeded in producing what is technically referred to as the "mirage effect from thermally modulated

  • Micro-Cavity Arrays: Lighting the Way to the Future

    It was not too long ago that basic science lectures began with the three forms of matter: gases, liquids and solids--and somewhere along the line plasmas were occasionally added to the list. But to be precise, a plasma is an ionized gas; thus, a subset of the big three. But this subset has coexisted with the other forms since the Big Bang and
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