by | Oct 21, 2021 | Alazzawi, Yarub, Aono, Kenji, Chakrabartty, Shantanu, Scheller, Erica
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Engineers in Prof. Shantanu Chakrabartty’s laboratory have developed a convenient, wireless power transfer system that exploits the body’s self-capacitance to charge small, low power, wearable and minimally-invasive devices.
Wearable devices traditionally rely o…
by | Oct 8, 2021 | Axelbaum, Richard, Gopan, Akshay, Yang, Zhiwei
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Engineers in Prof. Richard Axelbaum’s laboratory have developed Modular Pressurized Coal Combustion (MPCC), an economical, flexible, coal-fired boiler/burner system that could produce electricity at 1.3% higher efficiency than a state-of-the-art coal-fired plant with t…
by | Jun 3, 2021 | Jun, Young-Shin, Zhu, Yaguang
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Researchers in Young-Shin Jun’s lab at Washington University have developed a more sustainable and efficient process for extracting rare earth elements from coal fly ash using supercritical fluids. Compared to the conventional roasting and acid leaching method, supercr…
by | Apr 26, 2021 | Chapman Jr., William "Will Jr", Leng, Xiandong, Mutch, Matthew, Uddin, Shihab, Zhu, Quing
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Researchers led by Quing Zhu at Washington University have developed a method for imaging rectal tumors using photoacoustic microscopy and ultrasound with a machine learning component. This method is better able to differentiate residual cancer from healthy tissue following…
by | Apr 7, 2021 | Jun, Young-Shin, Singamaneni, Srikanth
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A team of researchers led by Young-Shin Jun have developed a polymer coating for N95 respirators that would permit fast, easy, and cheap N95 disinfection using only direct sunlight. The researchers coated the outermost fabric layer in polydopamine, which converts photon energ…