News Bureau | ILLINOIS

A new study by Illinois materials science and engineering professor Qian Chen, right, and chemistry graduate student Falon Kalutantirige emphasizes the importance of nanoscale empty space in everyday materials. The image in the background, titled “Beyond Nothingness,” was produced using computational modeling and portrays a magnified surface of a water filtration membrane as a mountainous landscape, with computational data points as the starry dark universe in the background.

Photo by Fred Zwicky