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Mar 12, 2025
Developing New Ways To Control Heat Flow
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s Nano Energy Laboratory, in collaboration with Mauro Antezza’s Theoretical Physics Group at the Université de Montpellier in Montpellier, France, published their research on “Flexible Tuning of Asymmetric Near-Field Radiative Thermal Transistor by Utilizing Distinct Phase-Change Materials,” as a featured article in Applied Physics Letters.
Mar 11, 2025
PhD Student Places First at AAAS 2025 Student E-Poster Competition
Aleksei Krotov, PhD’25, bioengineering, advised by COS/ECE University Distinguished Professor Dagmar Sternad, received first place in the 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting Student E-Poster Competition in the Brain and Behavior category.
Mar 10, 2025
Revolutionizing Live-Cell Research With InCu-Click
BioE Assistant Professor Sara Rouhanifard’s lab has developed InCu-Click, a breakthrough reagent that makes the powerful click chemistry technique safe for live-cell applications, opening up new possibilities in drug discovery, diagnostics, and biological research.
Mar 06, 2025
Unlocking the Secrets of Dark Matter With Graphene
ECE/COS Associate Professor Kin Chung Fong was awarded a $950,000 grant from the Department of Energy for “WIdeband graphene-based aXion dARk matter quantum Detector (WIXARD).” Fong will explore using astrophysics to gain insights into dark matter.
Mar 06, 2025
Patent for Highly Sensitive Gas Detection Technology
University Distinguished and MIE William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded a patent for “Sensors with capacitive transduction via metamaterials for gas detection.”
Mar 06, 2025
Neural Stem Cell Research Discovery Could Counteract Brain Aging
ChE Professor and Chair Rebecca Willits’ research on “Mechanotransductive N-Cadherin Binding Induces Differentiation in Human Neural Stem Cells” was published in Mechanobiology in Medicine. The research discovered that a protein in the human brain could potentially be used to grow new neurons in the lab and enhance brain processes affected by aging or neurodegenerative diseases.
Mar 06, 2025
A Safer Approach To Generate Endothelial Cells
BioE Professor Ning Wang published his research on “Engineering Aortic Valves via Transdifferentiating Fibroblasts Into Valvular Endothelial Cells Without Using Viruses or iPS Cells” in Bioactive Materials.
Mar 06, 2025
Optimizing Carbon Nanotube Bundles for Improved Electronics
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung published his research on “Bundling Effect of Semiconductor-Enriched Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks on Field-Effect Transistor Performance” in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing.