The annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) was convened at MIT this spring, culminating a series of events associated with the organization’s centennial celebration.
As the centerpiece of its centennial, ACSA launched a major new book at the meeting titled Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America (MIT Press, 2012), the first comprehensive history of North American architecture education.
This illustration shows a lead sulfide quantum dot array. Each quantum dot (the colored clusters) is 'passivated' by molecules that bind to its surface. Dots that are made up of unequal amounts of lead and sulfur tend to cause electrons (shown in red) to become highly localized, which can substantially lower the electrical transport of the device.Image: Donghun Kim and Jeffrey C. Grossman
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