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Ordered Defects May Be Key for Solution-Deposited Semiconductors

A new solution deposition process for semiconductors yields high-performing transistors by introducing more defects, counterintuitively. Researchers used these devices to construct high-speed logic circuits and an operational high-resolution...
9-Oct-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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DeepSPACE Design Tool Takes a Concept to a Multitude of Configurations

The new design software developed by an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign takes your concept and requirements and rapidly generates design configurations from conventional to out-of-this-world, including a 3D CAD...
4-Oct-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Thermal Effects in Spintronics Systematically Assessed for First Time

A new experimental technique, reported by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the journal APL Materials, directly measures heating in spintronic devices, allowing direct comparison to other effects.
25-Sep-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Vishveshwara Seamlessly Weaves Science and Art Together

Her father was a renowned physicist who studied black holes, and her mother is a prominent molecular biophysicist. You could say that physics is in her DNA. But physics isn’t the only thing in Illinois Grainger Engineering professor Smitha...
17-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Controlling molecular electronics with rigid, ladder-like molecules

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report a unique strategy for controlling molecular conductance by using molecules with rigid backbones—such as ladder-type molecules, known as being shape-persistent.
27-Aug-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Using machine learning to speed up simulations of irregularly shaped particles

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have trained neural networks to predict interactions between irregularly shaped particles to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations.
23-Aug-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

ARPA-H project to pioneer rapid manufacturing of tumor models

Advanced imaging and AI will power the manufacture of any cancer at the push of a button.
20-Aug-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Halogen bonding for selective electrochemical separation, path to sustainable chemical processing demonstrated

With a new polymer that only attracts certain substances from solutions when electrically activated, researchers have taken a major step towards sustainable chemical separation.
14-Aug-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Illinois Grainger Engineering expert available: Disinformation impacting elections and international conflicts

6-Jun-2024 11:05 AM EDT

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5-Jun-2024 4:05 PM EDT

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Milenkovic gaining biological insights by analyzing data embedded in non-Euclidean spaces

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.
29-Aug-2023 4:05 PM EDT