Bendable concrete makes infrastructure safer, extends its service life and reduces maintenance costs and resource use.|Short Read

Magnetic nanoparticles coated in amino acids can modulate light inexpensively at room temperature, and the findings have applications in autonomous vehicles. |Medium Read

Two of the seven faculty honored with the 2017 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award are Michigan Engineering professors Ellen Arruda and Dawn Tilbury.|Medium Read

Doctoral student Yasmine Doleyres combines principles of tissue engineering and drug delivery to make improvements in breast cancer treatment.|Short Read

The most prestigious engineering association in the U.S. has named Ellen Arruda, Mark Daskin and Noboru Kikuchi among its newest members.|Short Read

Studying the role of shape in self-assembly came up accidentally as Sharon Glotzer and her colleagues were studying the properties of semiconducting nanoparticles their U-M colleagues produced.|Medium Read

Metal alloy design could raise radiation resistance by 100 times.|Medium Read

In an effort to make safer, longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries for technologies like electric vehicles, smartphones and laptops, a Michigan Engineering startup has formed a $1.5 million joint venture with two major players in the industry.|Medium Read

A new molecular gel recipe developed at the University of Michigan is at the core of a prototype for a more accurate lead paint test.|Medium Read

A new football helmet design aims to blunt some dangerous physics that today’s models ignore.|Short Read

Kirigami could be the key to flat, lightweight solar cells that can track the sun across the sky.|Medium Read

Engineering professor Nicholas Kotov has been drawn to one scientific field or another for as long as he can remember - biology, chemistry, zoology, geology. And before all that, pyrotechnics.|Medium Read