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Chad Mirkin Receives American Chemical Society’s Top Honor
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (500+ words) It takes a different way of thinking to connect disparate fields, put big ideas into action, and imagine what’s next.Learn more Northwestern University’s Chad A. Mirkin will receive the 2027 Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in recognition…...
New Model Shows How Metallic Alloys Behave at the Nanoscale
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (589+ words) It takes a different way of thinking to connect disparate fields, put big ideas into action, and imagine what’s next.Learn more Existing models of structural alloys largely rely on simplified systems that limit predictions of how chemistry controls processing…...
Cell-Inspired Material Captures Energy and Releases It on Demand
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (536+ words) It takes a different way of thinking to connect disparate fields, put big ideas into action, and imagine what’s next.Learn more Harvesting, storing, and using energy typically require separate materials or devices, making renewable energy systems more complex and…...
Machine Learning and AI for Science
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (184+ words) Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence enable the learning of complex nonlinear patterns from high-dimensional datasets. In ESAM, we are interested in leveraging or developing new data-driven... Application AreasMachine Learning and AI for Science Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence enable the…...
Scientists Can Now Watch Materials Fail in Real Time
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (507+ words) It takes a different way of thinking to connect disparate fields, put big ideas into action, and imagine what’s next.Learn more For decades, scientists have studied materials mostly by comparing what they looked like before and after being stressed,…...
Lab Tour: Quantum Oxide Layers Lab
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (548+ words) Media alternative for background video: The pulsed laser deposition chamber is the starting point for every sample of transition metal oxides. Oxygen-metal compounds with unusual electronic and magnetic behavior, these materials naturally form ceramic crystals—hard, brittle solids with a…...
Megalibraries in Pole Position for Autonomous Discovery over Self-Driving Labs
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (604+ words) It takes a different way of thinking to connect disparate fields, put big ideas into action, and imagine what’s next.Learn more Traditional materials discovery is slow and inefficient, relying on sequential trial-and-error methods that make it difficult to rapidly…...
Sinan Keten Named New Chair of Northwestern Mechanical Engineering
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (370+ words) It takes a different way of thinking to connect disparate fields, put big ideas into action, and imagine what’s next.Learn more Northwestern Engineering’s Sinan Keten has been named chair of the McCormick School of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering,…...
Renewable-Powered Technology Converts Carbon Dioxide into Key Chemical
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (669+ words) It takes a different way of thinking to connect disparate fields, put big ideas into action, and imagine what’s next.Learn more Most of the world’s ethylene is produced from fossil fuels, generating large amounts of CO₂ while industries still need…...
From Atoms to Innovation
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (788+ words) Northwestern Engineering scientists and engineers are at the forefront of this work, using insights from atomic-scale structures to guide the development of materials with improved performance and tailored properties. Their work moves fluidly among computer simulations, laboratory experiments, and factory-floor…...