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.
Laine's team has developed new ways to refine common agricultural waste such as rice hulls into materials that can be used in lithium-ion batteries and other products important for the transition to green energy.
Three MSE-affiliated faculty will play key roles in designing materials that are more than the sum of their parts and can be rapidly translated to manufacturing using 3D printing.
In a newly published article, Dr. Kyle Bushick and Professor Manos Kioupakis highlight potential pathways to modify the AMR rate in silicon - the most important semiconductor and solar cell material - via strain engineering.
Hovden, who explores matter at the atomic scale, was one of 93 scientific researchers in the country - and the only one in Michigan - to receive this prestigious honor.
A newly published paper from the Li lab explains how - though it seems counterintuitive - cracks in the positive electrode of lithium-ion batteries is actually a good thing.
