Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering

How it's inspiring a new class of lightweight, impact-resistant materialsCredit: Roy Caldwell/UC Berkeley How do you protect yourself from the ...

Four Lehigh University engineers land prestigious 2019 NSF research fellowship grants

Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes research potential of women studying bioengineering, materials science, and mechanical engineeringCredit: Lehigh University It was ...

Machine learning approach for low-dose CT imaging yields superior results

Findings make a strong case for harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in CT TROY, N.Y. --Machine learning has the ...

Fiber-optic probe can see molecular bonds

Pointing the new nanoscopy tool like a Harry Potter wand reveals a high-resolution image of moleculesCredit: Liu Group/UCR In "Avengers: ...

New microneedle technique speeds plant disease detection

Credit: NC State University Researchers have developed a new technique that uses microneedle patches to collect DNA from plant tissues ...

57% of the plastic waste on the Tarragona coast is clothing fibers from washing machines

Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili research group Tecnatox have analyzed the pollution of the sea, the marine sediment ...

How do foams collapse?

June 8, 2019

Two distinct physical mechanisms identified for how simple foams collapseCredit: Rei Kurita Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University ...

Proof of sandwiched graphene-membrane superstructure opens up a membrane-specific drug delivery mode

June 7, 2019

Credit: YUE Hua and CHEN Pengyu Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

One-two-punch catalysts trapping CO2 for cleaner fuels

June 7, 2019

Credit: ©DGIST Copper and platinum nanoparticles added to the surface of a blue titania photocatalyst significantly improve its ability to ...

Kessler foundation receives $1 million to study novel treatments for spinal cord injury

Tim Reynolds, co-founder of Wall Street's Jane Street Capital, funds new avenue of research at the Center for Spinal Stimulation ...

Thwarting oil-pipeline corrosion by identifying a nanoscale villain

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Steel pipes rust and eventually fail. To preempt disasters, oil companies and others have created computer models ...

Discovery sheds light on synthesis, processing of high-performance solar cells

Halide perovskite solar cells hold promise as the next generation of solar cell technologies, but while researchers have developed techniques ...

Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo

Compound that knocks out a DNA repair pathway enhances cisplatin treatment and helps prevent drug-resistance CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Many chemotherapy ...

Dynamics of key viral attack strategy visible for first time