2018

Salt Boosts Creation of 2-D Materials

Rice scientists show how salt lowers reaction temperatures to make novel materials.

USM Polymer Student Wins Prestigious Graduate Research Award

University of Southern Mississippi doctoral student Abagail Williams has been chosen to receive a prestigious Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR) award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Supercomputer Predicts Optical and Thermal Properties of Complex Hybrid Materials

Materials scientists at Duke University computationally predicted the electrical and optical properties of semiconductors made from extended organic molecules sandwiched by inorganic structures.

Success is Sweet: Researchers Unlock the Mysteries of the Sugarcane Genome

For centuries, sugarcane has supplied human societies with alcohol, biofuel, building and weaving materials, and the world’s most relied-upon source of sugar. Now, researchers have extracted a sweet scientific prize from sugarcane: its massive and complex genome sequence, which may lead to the development of hardier and more productive cultivars.

MSU Nets $1.1M in DOE Grants

The four grants come from the DOE Offices of High Energy Physics, Fusion Energy Sciences, Nuclear Physics and Biological and Environmental Research, representing the breadth of research undertaken at MSU.

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Research Brief: A Warmer Climate Will Also be a Drier Climate, with Negative Impacts on Forest Growth

Warmer temperatures brought on by climate change will lead to drier soils and reduce tree photosynthesis and growth in forests later this century, according to a new University of Minnesota study published in the journal Nature.

Self-healing Material Can Build Itself from Carbon in the Air

A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer, which might someday be used as construction or repair material or for protective coatings, continuously converts the greenhouse gas into a carbon-based material that reinforces itself.

High Entropy Alloys Hold the Key to Studying Dislocation Avalanches in Metals

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made it possible to understand how dislocations—in catastrophic materials failure--organize and react at nanoscale.