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Newswise: Grainger Engineering launches USDOT funded NURail Center, celebrates 'the future of rail transport in this country'
Released: 31-May-2024 1:30 PM EDT
Grainger Engineering launches USDOT funded NURail Center, celebrates 'the future of rail transport in this country'
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Official ribbon-cutting attended by federal and state dignitaries, including Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Amit Bose, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois Representative Nikki Budzinski, Illinois Department of Transportation Secretary Omer Osman, and university officials.

Newswise: New $3 million CERL grant to enable solid-state lithium battery technology
Released: 28-May-2024 11:35 AM EDT
New $3 million CERL grant to enable solid-state lithium battery technology
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A team of Grainger Engineering researchers aim to create the underpinning science and technology required to enable solid-state rechargeable lithium batteries through a grant from the US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL).

Newswise: Grainger engineers bring quantum expertise to DOE InterQnet initiative
Released: 24-May-2024 3:30 PM EDT
Grainger engineers bring quantum expertise to DOE InterQnet initiative
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

InterQnet is a three-year initiative to demonstrate that quantum computers separated by large distances and even based on different hardware architectures can work in tandem.

Newswise: Information and Intelligence group announces participation in Department of Commerce Consortium dedicated to AI Safety
Released: 15-May-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Information and Intelligence group announces participation in Department of Commerce Consortium dedicated to AI Safety
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The Information and Intelligence Group within The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is one of more than 200 leading AI stakeholders to help advance the development and deployment of safe, trustworthy AI under new U.S. Government safety institute.

Newswise: Simulating diffusion using 'kinosons' and machine learning
Released: 14-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Simulating diffusion using 'kinosons' and machine learning
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Diffusion in solids is the process by which atoms move throughout a material. The production of steel, ions moving through a battery and the doping of semiconductor devices are all things that are controlled by diffusion.

Newswise: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Announces the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Released: 24-Apr-2024 8:55 AM EDT
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Announces the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announces the establishment of the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, made possible by a transformative $50 million gift from Thomas M. Siebel.

Newswise: How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch
Released: 19-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A recent study demonstrates that soft skin pads doubling as sensors made from thermoplastic urethane can be efficiently manufactured using 3D printers.

Newswise: Atom-by-atom: Imaging structural transformations in 2D materials
Released: 18-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Atom-by-atom: Imaging structural transformations in 2D materials
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

In an effort to understand how and why 2D interfaces take on the structures they do, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to visualize the thermally-induced rearrangement of 2D materials, atom-by-atom, from twisted to aligned structures using transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

Newswise: Researchers study effects of solvation and ion valency on metallopolymers
Released: 12-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Researchers study effects of solvation and ion valency on metallopolymers
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

In a new paper published in JACS AU, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign analyzed the effects of solvation and ion valency on metallopolymers, with implications for critical materials recovery and recycling, and environmental remediation.

Newswise: Chris Anderson combining materials science, physics and electrical engineering to advance quantum technologies
Released: 3-Apr-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Chris Anderson combining materials science, physics and electrical engineering to advance quantum technologies
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Chris Anderson is the newest addition to the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) faculty, and he is ready to make a quantum leap into the world of materials science.

Newswise: A Monocycle Robot with Two Legs
Released: 27-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
A Monocycle Robot with Two Legs
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

ECE associate professor Joohyung Kim has created “Ringbot,” a monocycle robot with two legs. The hybrid leg-wheel mechanism enables the robot to tackle diverse terrains, from urban areas to indoor environments. The robot’s ability to maneuver through narrow spaces means this design can be adapted for last-mile deliveries in congested environments.

Newswise: Design rules and synthesis of quantum memory candidates
Released: 22-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Design rules and synthesis of quantum memory candidates
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

New research Grainger Engineering professor Daniel Shoemaker and graduate student Zachary Riedel used density functional theory (DFT) calculations to identify possible europium (Eu) compounds to serve as a new quantum memory platform.

Newswise: What heat can tell us about battery chemistry: using the Peltier effect to study lithium-ion cells
Released: 19-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
What heat can tell us about battery chemistry: using the Peltier effect to study lithium-ion cells
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

New research from The Grainger College of Engineering suggests that observing how heat flows in conjunction with electricity can give important insights into battery chemistry.

Newswise: AI technique 'decodes' microscope images, overcoming fundamental limit
Released: 1-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EST
AI technique 'decodes' microscope images, overcoming fundamental limit
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Atomic force microscopy, or AFM, is a widely used technique that can quantitatively map material surfaces in three dimensions, but its accuracy is limited by the size of the microscope’s probe. A new AI technique overcomes this limitation and allows microscopes to resolve material features smaller than the probe’s tip.

Newswise: Reimagining electron microscopy: Bringing high-end resolution to lower-cost microscopes
Released: 28-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Reimagining electron microscopy: Bringing high-end resolution to lower-cost microscopes
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have shown for the first time that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking microscopic resolution.

Newswise: Vlasov and Bashir groups develop nanoscale device for brain chemistry analysis
Released: 23-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Vlasov and Bashir groups develop nanoscale device for brain chemistry analysis
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The device, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is silicon-based and takes advantage of techniques developed for microelectronics manufacturing.

   
Newswise: Thermally engineering templates for highly ordered self-assembled materials
Released: 14-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Thermally engineering templates for highly ordered self-assembled materials
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor have developed a template material that carries almost no heat and therefore stops heat transfer between the template material itself and the solidifying eutectic material.

Newswise: Haran and Saif elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Released: 8-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Haran and Saif elected to the National Academy of Engineering
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Kiruba Haran, who is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Grainger Endowed Director’s Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics, and Taher Saif, the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor in mechanical science and engineering, were elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Newswise: Mind the (green) gap
Released: 26-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Mind the (green) gap
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The “green gap” is described as the lack of suitable green LEDs. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have found a potential path to fill the green gap with an ultimate goal to "triple the efficiency of today’s white light emitting diodes."

Newswise: Better microelectronics from coal
Released: 18-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Better microelectronics from coal
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Coal is an abundant resource in the United States that has, unfortunately, contributed to climate change through its use as a fossil fuel.

Newswise: The surface knows what lies beneath: physicists show how to detect higher-order topological insulators
Released: 17-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
The surface knows what lies beneath: physicists show how to detect higher-order topological insulators
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Just like a book can’t be judged by its cover, a material can’t always be judged by its surface. But, for an elusive conjectured class of materials, physicists have now shown that the surface previously thought to be “featureless” holds an unmistakable signature that could lead to the first definitive observation.

Newswise: First in Education, Research, Innovation: New Partnership Brings MediView Augmented Reality Platform to Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Released: 30-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
First in Education, Research, Innovation: New Partnership Brings MediView Augmented Reality Platform to Carle Illinois College of Medicine
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign has been selected as the first medical school in the world to integrate a powerful new augmented reality-based hologram system in its education, innovation, and clinical programs.

Released: 9-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST
The renamed Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory honors a Physics tradition shaped by Leggett himself
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

On Saturday, Nov. 4, the Physics department at Grainger Engineering officially introduced the Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory in a celebration featuring the 2003 Nobel Prize Award winner and current John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair Emeritus in Physics.

Newswise: Nondestructive measurement realized in ytterbium qubits, aiding the development of scalable neutral atom quantum computing
Released: 18-Oct-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Nondestructive measurement realized in ytterbium qubits, aiding the development of scalable neutral atom quantum computing
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Atoms of the metal ytterbium-171 may be the closest things in nature to perfect qubits. A recent study shows how to use them for repeated quantum measurements and qubit rotations, which may aid in the development of scalable quantum computing.

Newswise: Study quantifies satellite brightness, challenges ground-based astronomy
2-Oct-2023 11:30 AM EDT
Study quantifies satellite brightness, challenges ground-based astronomy
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The ability to have access to the Internet or use a mobile phone anywhere in the world is taken more and more for granted, but the brightness of Internet and telecommunications satellites that enable global communications networks could pose problems for ground-based astronomy.

Newswise: NIH awards researchers $1.2M to develop robotic eye examination system
Released: 22-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
NIH awards researchers $1.2M to develop robotic eye examination system
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Duke University has developed a robotic eye examination system, and the National Institutes of Health has awarded the researchers $1.2 million to expand and refine the system.

Newswise: Nanofluidic device generates power with saltwater
Released: 22-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Nanofluidic device generates power with saltwater
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

There is a largely untapped energy source along the world’s coastlines: the difference in salinity between seawater and freshwater. A new nanodevice can harness this difference to generate power.

Released: 22-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
NSF grant awarded for development of method to recover rare-earth elements from U.S. mines
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $2 million grant to researchers who are developing new functional materials to separate and recover rare-earth elements and platinum group metals from waste streams of U.S. mines.

Released: 18-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Samsung Austin Semiconductor invests $1M in UIUC to bolster semiconductor ecosystem in the U.S.
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Samsung Austin Semiconductor is partnering with The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to continue building the talent pipeline needed to support the growing semiconductor ecosystem throughout the United States.

Newswise: Milenkovic gaining biological insights by analyzing data embedded in non-Euclidean spaces
Released: 29-Aug-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Milenkovic gaining biological insights by analyzing data embedded in non-Euclidean spaces
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Olgica Milenkovic’s group has been developing machine learning approaches that can tell revealing new stories about biological phenomena—but her work has very old roots.

Newswise: Demon hunting: Physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle
Released: 9-Aug-2023 11:45 AM EDT
Demon hunting: Physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

In 1956, theoretical physicist David Pines predicted that electrons in a solid could form a composite particle called a demon. It's eluded detection since its prediction....until now.

Newswise: Study observes sudden acceleration of flow, generates new boundary layer
Released: 3-Aug-2023 11:55 AM EDT
Study observes sudden acceleration of flow, generates new boundary layer
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

In an experiment on how turbulent boundary layers respond to acceleration in the flow around them, aerospace engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign observed an internal boundary layer that fundamentally changed the behavior of the flow from what would have been expected without it.

Newswise: Federal, state dignitaries visit to support Grainger Engineering transportation infrastructure research initiatives
Released: 1-Aug-2023 10:55 AM EDT
Federal, state dignitaries visit to support Grainger Engineering transportation infrastructure research initiatives
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin on campus Monday to celebrate the potential of projects led by Grainger Engineering faculty.

Newswise: New UIUC center to develop autonomous construction systems, ecosystem
Released: 26-Jul-2023 4:05 PM EDT
New UIUC center to develop autonomous construction systems, ecosystem
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The University of Illinois’ Grainger College of Engineering will be the site of a new research and development center dedicated to autonomous construction technologies, with funding from the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Newswise: UIUC, U.S. Army ERDC sign agreements to enhance STEM collaborations
Released: 14-Jul-2023 10:40 AM EDT
UIUC, U.S. Army ERDC sign agreements to enhance STEM collaborations
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced the signing of an Educational Partnership Agreement and a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center, the premier research and development center for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Newswise: Navigating the future of underwater geolocalization: how polarization patterns enable new technology
Released: 11-Jul-2023 11:15 AM EDT
Navigating the future of underwater geolocalization: how polarization patterns enable new technology
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Beneath the water’s surface lays a hidden world: one that cannot be perceived by the human eye. When viewed through a special camera, however, rich polarization patterns are unveiled. These patterns can be used as an alternative approach to geolocation- the process of determining the geographic position of an object.

Released: 5-Jul-2023 10:55 AM EDT
Illinois MRSEC renewed for six years, continuing vibrant materials research community
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, or MRSEC, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been funded for an additional six years at $18M. The center’s interdisciplinary research will continue with two new focuses at the cutting edge of materials science, and outreach and education activities will continue work to develop a STEM pipeline and foster community among researchers, students and the public.

Newswise: Predicting Future Flames
Released: 20-Jun-2023 1:45 PM EDT
Predicting Future Flames
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Wildfires can destroy homes, businesses, communities, infrastructure, and most importantly, lives. Researchers at CIRI are working on models to not only track wildfires, but also predict where they could spread to next.

Newswise: New research computes first step toward predicting lifespan of electric space propulsion systems
Released: 1-Feb-2023 5:05 PM EST
New research computes first step toward predicting lifespan of electric space propulsion systems
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Electric space propulsion systems use energized atoms to generate thrust. The high-speed beams of ions bump against the graphite surfaces of the thruster, eroding them a little more with each hit, and are the systems' primary lifetime-limiting factor.

Released: 8-Dec-2020 12:10 PM EST
Paper-based electrochemical sensor can detect COVID-19 in less than five minutes
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, testing remains a key strategy for tracking and containing the virus.


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