micro/nano engineering – Page 2 – Mechanical Engineering

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”
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.

Professor Miki Banu receives UMOR Research Faculty Award
06/11/2019

ME Research Associate Professor awarded for work in lightweight materials.

U-M receives $6.25M to study heat-to-electricity conversion and cooling with LEDs
05/03/2019

Michigan Engineering is leading four other universities in Department of Defense-funded research.

ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards of 2018 includes ME Postdoctoral Fellow
04/12/2019

Work with radiative thermal transport at nanoscale level lands Dakotah Thompson a ProQuest Dissertation Award.

ME research team matches world records of lithium-metal anode efficiency
02/19/2019

Preparing for the future by doing the research now, ME researchers have matched a world record.

Meyhofer and Reddy labs report novel LED based refrigeration in Nature
02/15/2019

LED enables a new approach to light-based cooling.

NAE includes ME professor in the 2019 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
01/04/2019

Sixty early-career engineers were chosen to participate in NAE’s symposium to discuss leading-edge research.

Heat transfer limit set by Max Planck’s law can be overcome: Reddy and Meyhofer labs report in Nature
09/07/2018

Mechanical engineers find another way to break Planck’s law at the nanoscale.

Kurabayashi lab’s study using a droplet microfluidic device was published in Nature Communications
03/23/2018

Kurabayashi group and Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers recently discovered enzymes that produce ibuprofens with record-breaking enantiomer purity.