Mixing unconventional ingredients in just the right order can make complex materials with fewer impurities. The robotic lab that tested the idea could be widely adopted.
A world leader in surface science research, Tuteja has built a vibrant research enterprise at U-M involving ice-phobic, ice-shedding and anti-fouling coatings that have exciting real-life applications.
The American Heart Association (AHA) award will help support Roy’s research, which aims to help patients with atherosclerosis, a common cause of heart attacks.
Assistant Professor Claudia Loebel plans to use the grant to enhance the recruitment of undergraduate students from underrepresented minority backgrounds within Michigan.
The Tuteja group is developing new, nontoxic materials could one day keep airplane wings ice-free, or protect first responders from frostbite, and more.
The Pena-Francesch group is creating robots from flexible materials which allows them to contort in unique ways, handle delicate objects and explore places that other robots cannot.
To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive discovery by Wenhao Sun and team could help make new semiconductors and more.
The prestigious award offered by the Association for Computing Machinery goes to the team of U-M mechanical engineering and MSE professor Vikram Gavini.
