Rice University materials scientists show how salt lowers reaction temperatures to make novel materials and could lead to smaller and faster transistors, photovoltaics, sensors and catalysts
Rice University materials scientists show how salt lowers reaction temperatures to make novel materials and could lead to smaller and faster transistors, photovoltaics, sensors and catalysts
Graduate student Dave Tsai was one of eight graduate-student researchers to receive the gold award from a field of 300 candidates. His work was recognized for its “particularly significant and timely research” and for its applications in photovoltaics and LEDs.
Aditya Mohite of Los Alamos National Laboratory will join the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University as an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering (CHBE), beginning July 1.
It's easy and economical to make shiny pellets of functionalized graphene, according to scientists in the lab of Dr. Pulickel Ajayan at Rice University.
During the competition, 10 graduate students, six from the school of engineering, had just three minutes and a single slide to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance.
Is there a way to make big sheets of pristine graphene or other two-dimensional materials? That's the heart of a discovery by scientists who grew single-atom-thick graphene monocrystals to unprecedented sizes. The technique in principle produces pristine graphene of unlimited size and makes it suitable for roll-to-roll production.
The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and colleagues in India created two-dimensional gallenene, a thin film of conductive material that is to gallium what graphene is to carbon. The novel material appears to have an affinity for binding with semiconductors like silicon and could make an efficient metal contact in two-dimensional electronic devices.
Sugar may not be good for your health, but the wrinkle it provides to researchers could be great for the future of battery technology. Rice University and Arizona State researchers have proposed a fundamental mechanism for lithium dendrite growth, as well as a technology to help suppress it.
Rice researchers, including MSNE's Boris Yakobson, have defined a deception in graphene catalysts that, until now, has defied description.
Ten Rice University graduate students and postdoctoral researchers won awards in the Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI) Transdisciplinary Symposium Feb. 9, including MSNE students Seyed Sajadi and Mai Tran. The winning presenters received $500 travel awards.