Despite their charm and allure, diamonds are rarely perfect. They have tiny defects that, to assistant professor Nathalie de Leon, make them ever so appealing. These atom-sized mistakes have enormous potential in technologies for high-resolution imaging and secure communication lines. (more…)
Researchers at NC State University have developed a novel approach that integrates existing technologies to improve the biomanufacturing processes used to make everything from pharmaceuticals to fuels. (more…)
ForscherInnen der Universität Wien und der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften stellten sich die Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen die Quantenmechanik kausale Strukturen der Welt “unscharf” werden lässt. In diesem Fall ist eine fixe Abfolge von Ereignissen nicht möglich. Dafür entwickelten die WissenschafterInnen einen neuen theoretischen Rahmen, den sie kürzlich im renommierten Fachjournal Physical Review X veröffentlichten. (more…)
UA researchers and collaborators have turned their attention to lateral force transfer, to design buildings that can better withstand seismic forces.
An award-winning team of researchers at the University of Arizona and partnering universities is working to develop buildings that will not collapse under the force of major earthquakes, such as last year’s 7.1-magnitude quake in central Mexico and 7.3-magnitude quake near the Iran-Iraq border. The two earthquakes were the deadliest of 2017, killing approximately 900 people combined, flattening hundreds of buildings and leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — A team of chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale, as described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)
At UD, engineering students are making next-generation consumer products
When a Maryland-based boat kit company wanted help designing a component that rowers sit in, they contacted a University of Delaware engineer with ideal expertise. Jenni Buckley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and a rower in the UD Athletics Hall of Fame, advises students in Senior Design, a one-semester capstone engineering design program. (more…)
A protein involved in cognition and storing long-term memories looks and acts like a protein from viruses. The protein, called Arc, has properties similar to those that viruses use for infecting host cells, and originated from a chance evolutionary event that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago. (more…)
Knoten begegnen uns täglich im Alltag. In der Natur finden sich Knoten regelmäßig auf Polymeren, also auf chemischen Verbindungen, die aus Ketten oder verzweigten Molekülen bestehen. Polymere sind von größter Wichtigkeit in der Biologie – Stichwort DNA –, aber genauso relevant für die Entwicklung von Kunststoffen oder anderen Materialien in der Chemie und Materialforschung. (more…)
