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UT Arlington Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Develop Sensor System for Real-Time Evaluation of Boilers

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering professor is developing a distributed wireless antenna sensor system to monitor conditions of coal-fired boilers that will lead to making the units safer, more efficient and eventually producing better designed units.

IU Biologists Partner Bacterium with Nitrogen Gas to Produce More, Cleaner Bioethanol

Indiana University biologists believe they have found a faster, cheaper and cleaner way to increase bioethanol production by using nitrogen gas, the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere, in place of more costly industrial fertilizers.

Team Led by UCLA and Columbia Engineers Uses Disorder to Control Light on a Nanoscale

Findings could lead to more precise information transfer in computer chips and other applications.

Physics of Heavy Ion Induced Damage in Nanotwinned Metals Revealed by Researchers at Texas A&M University

A group of researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University led by Dr. Xinghang Zhang has investigated defect dynamics in heavy ion (Krypton) irradiated nanotwinned Ag and revealed twin boundary-defect clusters interactions via in situ radiation.

New Tabletop Detector “Sees” Single Electrons

MIT physicists have developed a new tabletop particle detector that is able to identify single electrons in a radioactive gas.

Fuchs Leads First Team to Observe X-Ray Phenomenon

Using an enormous X-ray laser — one of only two such machines on Earth — UNL physicist Matthias Fuchs and other scientists from around the world beat formidable odds to observe one of the most fundamental interactions between X-rays and matter.

CT Scan of Earth Links Deep Mantle Plumes with Volcanic Hotspots

University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three-dimensional scan of Earth’s interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland.

Faculty and Students Work on “Ghost Particle” Experiment

William and Mary researchers are studying the mysteries of ghost particles known as neutrinos through the NOvA experiment, which is managed by DOE’s Fermilab.

Tuning Polymer Interpenetration

Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered new ways to control and tune how nanoparticles arrange themselves in polymer matrices, which could open new ways to tailor the properties of new materials.

Building a Biofuel-Boosting Swiss Army Knife

Researchers at Michigan State University have built a molecular Swiss Army knife that streamlines the molecular machinery of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, making biofuels and other green chemical production from these organisms more viable.

Atomic Fractals in Metallic Glasses

Researchers at Caltech have shown that metallic glasses do have an atomic-level structure—if you zoom in closely enough—although it differs from the periodic lattices that characterize crystalline metals.

Printing Lightweight, Flexible, and Functional Materials

Harvard researchers have designed new multimaterial printheads that mix and print concentrated viscoelastic inks that allow for the simultaneous control of composition and geometry during printing.