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A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
Flicking lights or swiping wipers could one day add extra security to vehicles.
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‘Astrum’ solar car shoots for the stars by pushing energy efficiency
With nearly every nut and bolt optimized, the Solar Car Team’s newest vehicle will compete in the first World Solar Challenge since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Preventing infection: Nano-crumpled coating kills 99% of bacteria
Mimicking cicada wings, the stretchable material could offer a low-cost solution for patients with medical implants.
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$1.3M to improve urea fertilizer production and reduce CO2 emissions
Rather than contributing to emissions, the production of an essential fertilizer could consume carbon dioxide, and a U-M team will explore such a method.
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$18M for campus-wide ecosystem for designing and manufacturing materials
New center to advance materials research for quantum computing, sustainable plastics and more, while training a more representative workforce.
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Amit Misra to lead Michigan Materials Research Institute
A leader in materials science and engineering, Misra looks to build on the Institute’s early impact.
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$27 million for laboratory astrophysics and nuclear fusion, led by U-M
Two centers, supported by the National Nuclear Security Administration, will explore physics relevant to modeling the performance of the aging nuclear weapons stockpile.
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Mingyan Liu named associate dean for academic affairs
Liu hopes to foster collaborative and innovative problem-solving among faculty from different disciplines.
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U-M’s space design and manufacturing draws second round of support from DARPA
Without the constraints of building on Earth, engineers look to expand the capabilities of what space structures can do.
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Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins
A new tool in the fight against superbugs goes beyond protein folding simulations like AlphaFold, potentially revealing antibiotic candidates.