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Washington University in St. Louis (WashU, or WUSTL) is a private research university in Greater St. Louis with its main campus mostly in unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri and Clayton, Missouri, its West Campus in Clayton, its North Campus in the West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, and its Medical Campus in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries. As of 2017, 24 Nobel laureates in economics, physiology and medicine, chemistry, and physics have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university.

Perovskite light emitters and detectors with the stroke of a pen

“Ink pens developed by Chuan Wang’s lab enable handwriting of optoelectronic devices on nearly any surface The invention of the printing press revolutionized duplication of the written word, giving the hands of tired scribes a break and making written …

Two technical breakthroughs make high-quality 2D materials possible

“Researchers have been looking to replace silicon in electronics with materials that provide a higher performance and lower power consumption while also having scalability. An international team is addressing that need by developing a promising process to develop high-quality 2D …

Machine learning generates 3D model from 2D pictures

“Neural field network doesn’t need to be trained on other samples. Researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a machine learning algorithm that can create a continuous 3D model of cells …

Tiny, cheap solution for quantum-secure encryption

“It’s fairly reasonable to assume that an encrypted email can’t be seen by prying eyes. That’s because in order to break through most of the encryption systems we use on a day-to-day basis, unless you are the …

Low-cost, 3D printed device may broaden use of focused ultrasound technique

“Researchers and clinicians have been working to use focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for both noninvasive diagnostic use as well as to deliver treatments to the brain for tumors and neurodegenerative diseases. However, the …

Heat conduction plays prominent role in droplet dynamics

“When driving in the rain, it’s preferable that the raindrops roll or bounce off of the windshield instead of coating it or even freezing. A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St …

Stretchy, bendy, flexible LEDs

“They’re also cheaper, faster and fabricated with an inkjet printer Sure, you could attach two screens with a hinge and call a cell phone “foldable,” but what if you could roll it up and put it in your wallet …

Engineering various sources of loss provides new features for perfect light absorption

“Natural and manmade physical structures all lose energy, and scientists work hard to eliminate that loss or compensate for it. Optical and photonic devices lose energy through light scattering, radiation or material absorption. In some situations, however, intentionally yet carefully …

Synthetic biology enables microbes to build synthetic muscle

“Would you wear clothing made of muscle fibers? Use them to tie your shoes or even wear them as a belt? It may sound a bit odd, but if those fibers could endure more energy before breaking than cotton, silk …

A new piece of the quantum computing puzzle

“An efficient two-bit quantum logic gate has been out of reach, until now Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has found a missing piece in the puzzle of optical quantum computing. Jung-Tsung Shen …