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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology identified the opportunities they see ahead for scalable membrane materials based on rigid and engineered pore structures.
Read more about Advanced Materials Power Next-Generation Molecular Separations
A Stony Brook University PhD student and a team of scientists found that “stripes” of electronic charge, which may play a key role in superconductivity, persist across surprisingly high temperatures, shape conductivity, and have direction-dependent properties.
Read more about “Bad Metal” Offers Clues to High-Temperature Superconductivity
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed bio-inspired dynamic templates used to manufacture organic semiconductor materials that produce printable electronics.
Read more about Researchers Develop Dynamic Templates Critical to Printable Electronics Technology
A team of researchers at MIT, the University of Southern Denmark, Rice University, and Argonne National Laboratory may have determined why fairly brittle electrode materials in batteries don’t crack under the strain of expansion and contraction cycles when they are used and recharged.
Read more about How Some Battery Materials Expand Without Cracking
LSU is one of five universities in the U.S. with more than one graduate student awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research, or SCGSR, program.
Read more about LSU Among the Top Universities to Receive Energy Department Graduate Research Awards
Findings from Rice University physicists working at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are providing new insight about an exotic state of matter called the “quark-gluon plasma” that occurs when protons and neutrons melt.
Read more about Proton-Nuclei Smashups Yield Clues About ‘Quark Gluon Plasma’
Dr. Gregg Howe, an MSU Foundation Professor at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been awarded the 2017 Innovation of the Year for his pioneering work challenging a long-held assumption that plants cannot both grow and defend optimally at the same time.
Read more about Howe Receives 2017 MSU Innovation Center Award
Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute studying the interaction of root systems with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have determined that transcription factors control a degeneration process that regulates the stability of the root-and-fungi symbiosis.
Read more about 400 Million Years of a Stable Relationship: Clues to the Molecular Basis of Balance in AM Symbiosis
An insect infestation that is killing hemlock trees in New England forests is having a significant impact on the water resources of forested ecosystems that provide essential water supplies to one of the nation's most populous regions, according to research by Indiana University geographers and colleagues at three universities in Massachusetts.
Read more about Research Links Decline in Hemlock Forests to Changes in Water Resources
A team of researchers at MIT and in Chicago have created a self-assembly technique that could lead to long-awaited, simple method for making smaller microchip patterns.
Read more about A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines
Simulations developed by Brown University mathematicians provide new details of how sickle cell disease manifests inside red blood cells, which could help in developing new treatments.
Read more about Computer Models Provide New Understanding of Sickle Cell Disease
A close-up look at the growth of plant cell walls, which largely determines the way a plant grows and takes shape, offers a better understanding of how the tough-but-flexible walls expand, researchers have found in a recent study.
Read more about Plant Cell Walls' Stretch-But-Don't-Break Growth More Complex than Once Thought
