Mixing unconventional ingredients in just the right order can make complex materials with fewer impurities. The robotic lab that tested the idea could be widely adopted.
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Taking a page from nature’s book could allow humans to mitigate subzero temperatures without harming the environment
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Strong enough to move soft robots and medical capsules, weak enough to not ruin MRI images.
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The findings could help engineers methodically find the best molecules to increase the lifespan of perovskite solar cells, rather than relying on time-consuming trial and error.
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Synchronizing light and matter adds blue to the OLED color palette
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To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.
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Richard Laine is the academic category winner in a national EPA contest.
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The prestigious award offered by the Association for Computing Machinery goes to the team of U-M mechanical engineering professor Vikram Gavini.
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An effort led by U-M could enable industrial competitors to collectively build a predictive model that speeds the development of advanced solar cells.
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The unique program awards $875k in flexible funding.
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