Category: Research
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts February 7-11
Highlights include Nature and Time.
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts January 31 – February 4
Highlights include Scientific American and the New York Times.
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How worried should we be about the rise in hospital ransomware attacks? A Q&A with Kevin Fu
“We’ve reached an inflection point where the degree of connectivity between devices and services in all sectors has exploded.”
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts January 24-28
Highlights include the Associated Press.
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Calculating the best shapes for things to come
A new algorithm efficiently determines optimal shapes for structures.
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts January 17-21
Highlights include The Daily Beast, The Hill and Marketplace.
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Quantum tech: Semiconductor “flipped” to insulator above room temp
Discovery could pave the way to high speed, low-energy quantum computing.
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Nanotechnology: Theory predicts new type of bond that assembles nanoparticle crystals
Turns out entropy binds nanoparticles a lot like electrons bind chemical crystals.
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts January 10-14
Highlights include the Associated Press.
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Nanostructures get complex with electron equivalents
Nanoparticles of two different sizes break away from symmetrical designs.
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New photonic effect could speed drug development
Twisted semiconductor nanostructures convert red light into the twisted blue light in tiny volumes, which may help develop chiral drugs.
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1,000-cycle lithium-sulfur battery could quintuple electric vehicle ranges
The nanofibers recycled from Kevlar vests are harnessed in a biomimetic design to help solve a battery’s longevity problem.