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Quantum limits to heat flow observed at room temperature
02/21/2017

Students from Meyhofer and Reddy groups observe this phenomenon for the first time at room temperature

Interdisciplinary U-M team nets hydrogen storage materials research grant
04/28/2015

A multidisciplinary U-M research group including ME Professor Siegel has been awarded a $1.2 million DOE grant aimed at isolating and developing “best-in-class” hydrogen storage technology

Chance Encounter Leads to Use of Life-Saving Blood Analysis Device
04/28/2015

This device, developed by a multidisciplinary team including ME professors Fu and Kurabayashi, is a microfluidic device that uses a miniscule amount of blood – a mere microliter – to achieve test results in 20 minutes

Skerlos featured in MconneX 40-minute program on sustainability
05/02/2012

MconneX will provide entertaining and educational content to the almost 70,000 engineering alumni — all online and free

Violi’s paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)
07/20/2016

The paper is titled “Formation and emission of large furans and oxygenated hydrocarbons from flames”

U-M engineering researchers develop heat-conducting plastic
12/08/2014

The spaghetti-like internal structure of most plastics makes it hard for them to cast away heat, but a U-M research team, including ME associate professor Kevin Pipe, has made a plastic blend that does so 10 times better than its conventional counterparts

Saving sunlight: storable solar energy through nanotechnology
01/25/2016

ME PhD Student Ashley Bielinski wants to take the energy from the Sun and, instead of directly producing electricity as is usually done, aims to convert the energy into a storable fuel

Park and Saitou achieve record accuracy in predicting protein structures
11/21/2014

Park and Saitou developed a statistical potential function that set the accuracy record in predicting protein structures.

ME faculty part of $120M DoE battery research hub
11/30/2012

Siegel, Mazumder, and Hu will play an integral role in a national multimillion-dollar collaborative effort to develop breakthrough batteries for electric vehicles and a power grid that can store electricity generated from solar/wind energy

Reddy’s Work Featured on Cover of Nature Nanotechnology
11/17/2014

Research from Professor Pramod Reddy’s group on thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions published in Nature Nanotechnology and highlighted on the cover of the November edition.