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Claudia Loebel receives 2023 Crosby Award
Assistant Professor Claudia Loebel plans to use the grant to enhance the recruitment of undergraduate students from underrepresented minority backgrounds within Michigan.
Beating the freeze: Up to $11.5M for eco-friendly control over ice and snow
The Tuteja group is developing new, nontoxic materials could one day keep airplane wings ice-free, or protect first responders from frostbite, and more.
Squishy, metal-free magnets to power robots and guide medical implants
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.
Abdon Pena-Francesch receives AFOSR YIP Award
Three-year grant will help advance robotic performance in soft materials.
Sustainable synthesis route of hyaluronic acid polymers for biomedical applications
The new synthesis route developed by the Loebel lab could ultimately advance hydrogels' use in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Jingxian Li and Jinhong Min honored with 2023 MRS Graduate Student Awards
Li and Min received the honor for their outstanding efforts to advance memory devices and batteries, respectively.
Combining atomistic simulations and machine learning to predict grain boundary segregation in magnesium alloys
The predictive model developed by the Qi group aims to optimize magnesium alloys, expanding use as a lightweight material in transportation systems.
Sun group resolves 200-year-old geology mystery
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.
Material simulation with quantum accuracy wins Gordon Bell Prize
The prestigious award offered by the Association for Computing Machinery goes to the team of U-M mechanical engineering and MSE professor Vikram Gavini.
Bushick receives NERSC Early-Career Achievement Award
Kyle Bushick (PHD '23) was recognized for developing a novel computational methodology to calculate the Auger-Meitner recombination rates in silicon.
Rick Laine recognized with EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Award
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.
Claudia Loebel receives Packard Fellowship to study cellular memory
Loebel joins the 'rarefied group' of Packard Fellows for her groundbreaking work and creative approach.
$2M to fast track stronger alloys
Associate Professor Liang Qi is part of a team incorporating AI in its goal to make metal twice its current hardness.
Hailey McKenna receives DOE SCGSR Award
A member of the Goldman group, McKenna will spend nearly five months conducting dissertation research at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) in New York.
Rachel S. Goldman named Maria Goeppert Mayer Collegiate Professor
Goldman, an expert in materials physics, has made exceptional contributions to research, education and service.
U-M to lead $30 million complex-particle center
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.
Holm heading up search committee for new Dean
MSE chair Elizabeth Holm is leading an 18-person advisory committee to name a replacement for Alec Gallimore, who stepped down earlier this summer.
Guiding the design of silicon devices with improved efficiency
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.
Robert Hovden receives DOE Early Career Award
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.
Cracking in lithium-ion batteries speeds up electric vehicle charging
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.