By Will Ferguson,College of Arts and SciencesPULLMAN, Wash. – Brian Collins, and assistant professor of physics and astronomy,has received one of 59 national Early Career Research awards from the U.
S. Department of Energy for 2017.
Around 700 scientists from across the country applied for the award.
The five-year, $750000 grant will support Collins and his team of graduate and undergraduate students in their research developing and testing new resonant X-ray scattering techniques that reveal how biological, or carbon-based molecules assemble,orient and conform into nanostructures.
The information they gather could attend improve the design and performance of biological polymers: flexible, stretchable, and biocompatible ... » More ...
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