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The City University of New York (CUNY /ˈkjuːni/) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States. CUNY was founded in 1961 and comprises 26 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges, one undergraduate honors college, and seven post-graduate institutions. The university enrolls more than 275,000 students, and counts thirteen Nobel Prize winners and twenty-four MacArthur Fellows among its alumni.

CCNY researchers create new magnetic quasiparticle

“From The City College of New York’s Center for Discovery and Innovation and the Physics Department comes news of a new type of magnetic quasiparticle created by coupling light to a stack of ultrathin two-dimensional magnets. This achievement sprouting …

CCNY physicists score double hit in LED research

“In two breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, City College of New York graduate researchers are reporting the successful demonstration of an LED (light-emitting diode) based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials. This is also the first successful …

Researchers Develop a New Self-Assembling Nanomaterial that Offers a Promising Pathway to More Efficient, Affordable Harnessing of Solar Power

“The materials produce a singlet fission reaction that creates more and extends the life of harvestable electronic charges Solar rays are a plentiful, clean source of energy that is becoming increasingly important as the world works to shift away from …

Breakthrough in Circuit Design Makes Electronics More Resistant to Damage and Defects

“A newly published paper in Nature Electronics details how researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY, used an array of nonlinear resonators to overcome signal disruption when electronic circuits are broken or damaged People are growing increasingly dependent …

Scientists develop new tool for imprinting biochips

“The new technology could allow researchers to fit more biochemical probes onto a single biochip and reduce the cost of screening and analyzing changes associated with disease development, detecting bioterrorism agents, and other areas of research 3-D printing has gained …

Scientists Discover Process for Transitioning Two-Layer Graphene into a Diamond-Hard Material on Impact

“The innovation could enable development of a range of flexible, impenetrable materials capable of protecting the body and fragile objects Imagine a material as flexible and lightweight as foil that becomes stiff and hard enough to stop a bullet on …

CCNY physicists master unexplored electron property

“While the charge and spin properties of electrons are widely utilized in modern day technologies such as transistors and memories, another aspect of the subatomic particle has long remained uncharted. This is the “valley” property which has potential for realizing …