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Barry Goodell and colleagues at UMass Amherst have discovered a unique system that some microorganisms, notably brown rot fungi, use to digest and recycle wood.
Read more about Fungi that Evolved to Eat Wood Offer New Biomass Conversion Tool
Engineers at the University of Maryland have invented an entirely new kind of battery. It is bio-compatible because it produces the same kind of ion-based electrical energy used by humans and all living things.
Read more about UMD Engineers Invent the First Bio-Compatible, Ion Current Battery
A research collaboration led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has for the first time created a three-dimensional movie showing a virus preparing to infect a healthy cell.
Read more about UWM Researchers Create First 3-D Movie of a Virus in Action
Electrical engineers at Stanford have identified two semiconductors – hafnium diselenide and zirconium diselenide – that share or even exceed some of silicon’s desirable traits, starting with the fact that all three materials can “rust.”
Read more about New Ultrathin Semiconductor Materials Exceed Some of Silicon’s ‘Secret’ Powers
A Caltech team has identified a new additive that helps selectively convert CO2 into fuels containing multiple carbon atoms—a step toward ultimately making renewable liquid fuels that are not derived from coal or oil.
Read more about New Additive Helps Researchers More Selectively Convert CO2 to Multicarbon Fuels
Matthew Green is an assistant professor of physics at NC State. He was involved in a multi-institutional research project aimed at detecting a process called Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nuclear Scattering (CEvNS).
Read more about Finding Neutrinos – a Q&A with Matthew Green
Prof. Juan Collar led a team of UChicago physicists who built a lightweight, portable neutrino detector to observe the elusive interactions of the ghostly particles.
Read more about World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Observes Elusive Interactions of Particles
This summer, Christopher Lee Hanselman, a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, will be working at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh to pursue his doctoral thesis research in optimization for process systems engineering.
Read more about ChemE Student Wins DOE Award
