Tag: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization
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A self-cleaning device for oceanic carbon capture
Cyclic pH swings wash away electrode fouling, and a ridged flow channel swirls water to reach an industrial-scale current density.
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Quantum made practical: U-M-led team advances in NSF center competition
The project aims to develop plug‑and‑play photonic chips that bring quantum‑light measurements out of the lab into field‑ready commercial devices.
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Quantum metallurgy: Electron crystals deform and melt
Electrons can arrange into crystalline patterns that accumulate defects as they melt; controlling the degree of melting may advance superconductors and artificial neurons.
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Fine-tuning nanoscale heat flows in molecular materials
Researchers demonstrate how swapping out a single atom can cut the thermal conductance in half without changing electrical properties.
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Nanoparticles genetically modify several human cell types
The protein nanoparticles could help doctors treat cancer and genetic diseases without using modified viruses, which sometimes have harmful side effects.
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Memristor demonstrates use in fully analog hardware-based neural network
The crossbar array memristor made of bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) sandwiched between gold and titanium electrodes is analog tunable, retention stable and regulator-free in circuit
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New approach to qualifying nuclear reactor components rolling out
The method will be announced at the Electric Power Research Institute, March 10-11.
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OLED lighting: Corrugated panel design extends longevity and efficiency
The new design uses microscale ridges to pack more OLED into a given lighting panel area and lasts 2.7 times as long, with 40% higher efficiency, compared to conventional devices.
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Model predicts best cooling and aging regimen to form strong alloys
A new multiscale materials modeling framework predicts microstructures to control the final strength of lightweight aluminum alloys for fuel-efficient vehicles.
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Blood analysis shows whether brain cancer treatment is working
New diagnostic chip pulls packets released from tumor cells out of blood, showing whether cancer cells died during chemotherapy infusion.
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Interpretable machine learning to accelerate nanocatalyst discovery
A fast and accurate surrogate model screens over 10,000 possible metal-oxide supports for a platinum nanocatalyst to prevent sintering under high temperatures.
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New process layers uniform ScAlN on 3D surfaces
Scandium aluminum nitride can now be integrated into high-voltage, high-frequency or piezoelectric devices with plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition.