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Two novel methods will allow researchers to develop new “smart” materials.
Read more about Chemists at Carnegie Mellon University Develop New Methods to “See” Internal Structures of Macroporous Hydrogels
Brown University researchers worked with scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to image the first stages of a key chemical reaction as it happens.
Read more about Brown University Chemists Contribute to Opening of ‘Molecular Movie’
Research led by Michigan State University scientists developed a method that will more easily allow an electrical current to pass through materials, possibly leading to new and improved semiconductors.
Read more about Making a Better Semiconductor
University of California, Berkeley, physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones, enabling people to mimic bats or dolphins’ ability to use sound to communicate and gauge the distance and speed of objects around them.
Read more about Bats Do It, Dolphins Do It...Now Humans Can Do It, Too
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Duke University have created the first entropy-stabilized alloy that incorporates oxides – and demonstrated conclusively that the crystalline structure of the material can be determined by disorder at the atomic scale rather than chemical bonding.
Read more about Researchers Create First Entropy-Stabilized Complex Oxide Alloys
The study, led by GLBRC scientist and Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies, and hybrid poplar trees.
Read more about Perennial Biofuel Crops Use Water at Levels Similar to Corn
UC Berkeley is leading a $12.3 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to examine the role of epigenetics in allowing plants to survive in drought conditions, an increasing concern for agriculture as the effects of climate change are felt in California and globally.
Read more about Berkeley to Lead $12.3M Study of Crop Drought Tolerance
Cornell University physicists and Boyce Thompson Institute plant biologists have uncovered a valuable plant root action, in that roots – when their downward path is blocked, as often occurs in rocky soil – display a “grow and switch” behavior.
Read more about Scientists Unravel Root Cause of Plant Twists and Turns
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a four-year, $12 million grant to establish a new research center led by a Rutgers professor to accelerate the development of materials that improve energy efficiency and boost energy production.
Read more about Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory Get $12M for Advanced Materials Effort
An international group of physicists has traced the origin of an electromagnetic interaction to the Dirac equation, a fundamental equation of quantum physics.
Read more about Physicists Trace Origin of Electromagnetic Interaction to Dirac Equation
An international team of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a new technique called cyclic healing that uses repetitive, gentle stretching to eliminate pre-existing defects in metal crystals.
Read more about New Technique Removes Defects While Keeping Materials Strong
Researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of graphene that have an array of preferences and characteristics similar to those of ion channels in living cells.
Read more about Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores
