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“Bottom-up construction with a 2D twist could yield novel materials Tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles are interesting enough by themselves, but under the right circumstances, Rice University scientists have discovered they do something remarkable. While doing a routine check on a batch of …
“Nanotube-embedded coating detects threats from wear and tear in large structures A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time. The …
“Rice lab draws on nature to create flexible precursors for drug, materials design Inspired by your liver and activated by light, a chemical process developed in labs at Rice University and in China shows promise for drug design and the …
“A quantum simulator at Rice University is giving physicists a clear look at spin-charge separation, the quantum world’s version of the magician’s illusion of sawing a person in half. Published this week in Science, the research has implications …
“Rice University models show unique properties of 2D materials stressed by contoured substrates Atoms do weird things when forced out of their comfort zones. Rice University engineers have thought up a new way to give them a nudge. Materials theorist …
“Flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles The part of an old car that gets turned into graphene could come back as a better part for a new car. Rice University …
“Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid. Despite the name, quantum spin liquids are solid materials in which quantum entanglement and the geometric arrangement of atoms frustrate …
“Solid-state nanophotonic technology could potentially replace cabinets of equipment. Rice University photonics researchers have created a potentially disruptive technology for the ultraviolet optics market. By precisely etching hundreds of tiny triangles on the surface of a microscopic film of zinc …
“Rice study suggests stress among misaligned particles in typical cathodes limits flow If you could shrink enough for a fantastic voyage across a lithium battery electrode, you’d see the level of charge at every scale is highly uneven. This …
“Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide. What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems …