Category: Matter By Design
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Awwal Oladipupo wins People’s Choice Award at Three Minute Thesis competition
The 3MT People’s Choice Award, voted on by the audience, recognizes the presentation that resonated most with event attendees.
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Accelerating innovation with machine learning
Chemical Engineering faculty and students are using machine learning to open up new possibilities in research.
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Materials scientist and chemical engineer from U-M elected into the National Academy of Engineering
Michigan Engineering now includes 35 NAE members among its active and emeritus faculty.
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Chemical Engineering faculty receive grant to integrate VR into core curriculum
The CRLT Faculty Development Fund supports innovative teaching methods that enhance student learning at Michigan.
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Twisted Edison: bright, elliptically polarized incandescent light
Filaments curling at the micro- and nanoscale produce light waves that twirl as they travel.
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Sharon Glotzer receives David Turnbull lectureship
Sharon Glotzer has been recognized by the Materials Research Society (MRS) with the 2024 David Turnbull Lectureship.
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Precision health and advanced communications: €9M ($10M) for bio-inspired nanoparticles on demand
Advanced microscopy techniques and AI models will help design complex nanoparticles for specific biological targets with less trial and error.
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Rebecca Lindsey and Sharon Glotzer receive APS awards
The American Physical Society has recognized chemical engineering faculty Rebecca Lindsey and Sharon Glotzer for their respective contributions to the fields of high-pressure material studies and chemical physics.
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Chemical Engineering faculty and students recognized at International Symposium on Chirality
Three members of the Chemical Engineering department have been recognized for their contributions to chiral chemistry.
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This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
It uses magnetic fields to display images at the same resolution as a squid’s color-changing skin.
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Sharon Glotzer receives 2025 Peter Debye Award from the American Chemical Society
The award recognizes Glotzer’s inventive contributions to the theory, modeling, and simulation of colloidal particles for self-assembly.
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Morphable materials: Researchers coax nanoparticles to reconfigure themselves
It’s a step toward smart coatings that change color—or other properties—on the fly.
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Tuebor Energy selected for Biomimicry Institute’s Ray of Hope Accelerator Program
Founded by Nick Kotov, Tuebor Energy develops next generation battery components inspired by nanostructure of cartilage. The Accelerator Program will pave the way for scaling their technology for sustainable energy solutions.
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Nicholas Kotov receives Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize
The award recognizes his innovation in the field of self-assembling nanosystems and excellence in scientific communication.
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Flexible DNA linkers enable “impossible” nanostructures
Nanoparticles that couldn’t fit together with conventional DNA “glue” may now be created with the help of joints added to the rigid DNA.
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Nanoscale engineering brings light-twisting materials to more extreme settings
New manufacturing method builds tougher materials that were previously considered useless for twisting light into more robust optical devices.
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Targeting multiple COVID variants through the twist in the spike protein
Particles that gum up the keys that the virus uses to enter cells could one day be an effective COVID treatment whenever vaccines and other treatments fall short
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A simple, scalable method using light to 3D print helical nanostructures
New process can accelerate the production of complex materials needed to advance photonics technologies
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Beating the freeze: Up to $11.5M for eco-friendly control over ice and snow
Taking a page from nature’s book could allow humans to mitigate subzero temperatures without harming the environment.
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Scientists observe composite superstructure growth from nanocrystals in real time
The findings could enable engineers to more reliably manufacture next-gen materials by combining different nanocrystals.