Acceleration Consortium applies artificial intelligence to discovery of advanced materials
New collaboration on self-driving laboratories to focus on materials design in the areas of energy, the environment, structural and biomedical ...
Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering
Mechanical engineers develop new high-performance artificial muscle technology
'Cavatappi' artificial muscles, based on shape of Italian pasta, exhibit specific work and power metrics ten and five times higher ...
To design truly compostable plastic, scientists take cues from nature
New technology could steer plastics from landfills, oceans -- and into your backyard compost binCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Ting ...
New process makes ‘biodegradable’ plastics truly compostable
Polymer-eating enzymes embedded in plastic allow programmed degradationCredit: Christopher DelRe, UC Berkeley Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution ...
21st century medical needles for high-tech cancer diagnostics
Modern medicine needs better quality samples than traditional biopsy needles can provide, ultrasonically oscillating needles can improve treatment and reduce ...
The sweet taste of success for a supported nickel phosphide nanoalloy catalyst
Researchers from Osaka University report a nickel phosphide nanoalloy catalyst that cooperates with its support to give high activity for ...
Drug development platform could provide flexible, rapid and targeted antimicrobials
Credit: College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and ...
Fast brainwave oscillations identify and localize epileptic brain
Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Bin He's team at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the Mayo ...
Green energy technology
UD spinoff selected for Shell GameChanger Accelerator programCredit: Photo illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase, photo courtesy of Colin Post It's ...
Marine animals inspire new approaches to structural topology optimization
Credit: Candler Hobbs, Georgia Tech A mollusk and shrimp are two unlikely marine animals that are playing a very important ...
Chickens and pigs with integrated genetic scissors
Genome editing in farm animalsCredit: A. Heddergott / TUM Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study ...
Eco-friendly technique by NUS team to upcycle metal waste into multi-purpose aerogels
Promising applications include light-weight building materials and for growing cells for biomedical purposesCredit: National University of Singapore Metals are one ...
City, University of London joins forces with Engineers Without Borders UK
The strategic university partnership is aimed at embedding global and social responsibility into education and student experience.Credit: EWB UK City, ...
Scientists developed a technology for processing liquid industrial waste
Universal technology is cost-effective, allows to purify industrial wastewater, desalinate water, and dispose of wasteCredit: UrFU / Eduard Nikulnikov Russian ...
Medically savvy smartphone imaging systems
Development of smartphone-based imaging systems for medicine and healthcare can be optimized by newly published guidelines for holistic assessmentCredit: Hunt ...
AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images
Technique could help find sources of heavy air pollution and allow researchers to better study its effects on human health ...
Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center announces grant recipients
Supporting innovation in sustainable, bio-derived productsCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center at the ...
Understanding the growth of disease-causing protein fibres
UK researchers from the University of Bath and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have developed a method to directly ...
Supercomputing partnership to turbocharge Australian research and green innovation
Credit: Curtin-ICRAR Curtin University and DUG Technology Ltd have entered into a decade-long partnership to collaborate in the fields of ...
Detoxifying exhaust gas from device production processes
Development of a low-energy, high-efficiency exhaust gas abatement systemCredit: Kanken Techno Co.,Ltd Manufacturing process for industries of electronics, such as ...
