New approach reduces EV battery testing time by 75%
06/28/2022
06/28/2022
System developed at the University of Michigan saves time and money in the race to create better batteries for the electric vehicle revolution.
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Keck Foundation awards grant to cancer cell research
02/18/2022
02/18/2022
Collaborative research team converges on cancer cell behavior that will lead to more effective therapies.
Scrap to sustainable sheet metal: A $2M effort to overhaul automotive recycling
04/20/2021
04/20/2021
The global move to advanced materials and electric powertrains requires a re-evaluation of how we recycle vehicles.
Nature Communications Publishes Research on Nanoscale Mechanics at vdW Heterointerfaces
04/07/2021
04/07/2021
U-M ME Professor Wei Lu and his student Hossein Rokni have released a paper in Nature Communications entitled “Direct measurements of interfacial adhesion in 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures in ambient air.
Nature Communications Publishes Paper: Low-temperature paddlewheel effect in glassy solid electrolytes
03/25/2020
03/25/2020
U-M ME PhD Student, Jeffrey Smith, and Professor Don Siegel have a paper titled, “Low-temperature paddlewheel effect in glassy solid electrolytes,” published in Nature Communications.
Exploring a Novel, Nanoscale Thermal Switch
02/12/2020
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.
Solar-powered wastewater treatment coupled with energy and nutrient recovery
01/28/2020
01/28/2020
“Our goal is to identify solar-powered wastewater nitrate treatment pathways that facilitate the recovery of energy by producing value-added chemicals from these nutrients,” said Bala Chandran. The work is funded by Bala Chandran’s startup funds and MCubed, a University initiative to encourage innovative, interdisciplinary research. The project marries fundamental materials-scale catalysis, physics-based modeling, and experimental investigations.
Toward Smart Dental Implants
01/23/2020
01/23/2020
Activity trackers, smart watches, glucose monitors, and other wearable biosensor technology are a growing part of our lives. Now, ME Research Associate Professor Mihaela Banu is putting her research where our mouths are, with a collaborative initiative to develop a new smart, cyber-physical dental implant system.
New Paper Published in Nature Communications titled, “Exact exchange-correlation potentials from ground-state electron densities”
10/04/2019
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.
Project on Advanced Storage for Gaseous Fuels Receives $1 Million from Department of Energy
07/29/2019
07/29/2019
Researches in ME, chemistry, and the Savanah National Lab for innovative research of technologies for trucks, off-road vehicles, and the fuels that power them.