Applications for the annual Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS) are due September 12. Limited travel awards are available. Started in 2014, GCURS seeks to provide an outlet for undergraduate students to exchange ideas, learn about different areas of research, and gain confidence and experience in presenting their own work to a group of their peers.
For the fourth year in a row, Rice University ranks No. 1 in the nation for the best race/class interaction, according to student surveys for the Princeton Review’s 2019 edition of “The Best 384 Colleges.â€
The Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering (MSNE) at Rice University announces Hanyu Zhu as the new William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair Assistant Professor. He will head the Emerging Quantum and Ultrafast Activity Laboratory (EQUAL).
MSNE researchers have found that fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene, and shows promise for flexible electronics.
Growing a batch of carbon nanotubes that are all the same may not be as simple as researchers had hoped, according to MSNE researchers.
Borophene, the atomically flat form of boron with unique properties, is even more interesting when different forms of the material mix and mingle. The resulting new forms have properties electronics manufacturers may wish to explore, according to Boris Yakobson and his collaborators.
U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, was a featured speaker at the Transcending Incrementalism – Advanced Materials Symposium 2018. The symposium addressed questions about how research and organizations need to change to accelerate advances in materials science.
Recent graduate Ajay Subramanian had the unique experience of writing his first published paper — as an undergraduate. Working in the lab of chemist James Tour, his group developed a simple way to produce conductive, three-dimensional objects made of graphene foam. Ajay was co-lead author.
Ajay Subramanian '18, and professors Jun Lou and Pulickel Ajayan, together with their collaborators, discovered a novel way to create conductive 3D carbon blocks that can be shaped for applications.
Rice University materials scientist Ming Tang is one of 85 "outstanding scientists early in their careers" awarded a prestigious grant by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program. He will receive a university grant of $150,000 a year for five years to study lithium metal batteries.
