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News Article Tag: micro/nano engineering

Exploring a Novel, Nanoscale Thermal Switch
Exploring a Novel, Nanoscale Thermal Switch
02/12/2020

ME Professors Edgar Meyhofer and Pramod Reddy have shown for the first time how a nanoscale thermal switch can be built by employing nanoscale effects that arise when heat is transferred between a hot and cold nanoscale-thick membrane via thermal radiation.

Yue Fan winner of NSF CAREER Award Program
Yue Fan winner of NSF CAREER Award Program
01/21/2020

Fan’s proposal entitled, “Connecting Grain Boundary’s Metastability Evolution to Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Alloys During Non-Equilibrium Processing,” won the award.

New Paper Published in Nature Communications titled, “Exact exchange-correlation potentials from ground-state electron densities”
New Paper Published in Nature Communications titled, “Exact exchange-correlation potentials from ground-state electron densities”
10/04/2019

ME Professor Vikram Gavini, U-M Chemistry Professor, Paul Zimmerman, and ME Post-doc fellow, Bikash Kanungo, have been working on this challenge and have had their paper titled, “Exact exchange-correlation potentials from ground-state electron densities” published in Nature Communications on October 3, 2019, explaining their findings on solving the problem.