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UTEP Students Receive NSF Fellowship
UTEP Students Receive NSF Fellowship
May 2, 2019

UTEP Students Receive NSF Fellowship

El Paso Herald-Post

A pair of students from The University of Texas at El Paso who will pursue research-based doctoral degrees earned fellowship offers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
NSU PREM graduate helps develop new electroplating technique
NSU PREM graduate helps develop new electroplating technique
Apr 1, 2019

NSU PREM graduate helps develop new electroplating technique

PREM graduate and postdoctoral researcher Vanessa Peters is part of a team that recently developed a new technique for “electroplating copper and gold to create tiny, smoothly spherical inertial confinement fusion target shells,” reports the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Hispanic-serving institutions partner with CHESS
Hispanic-serving institutions partner with CHESS
Nov 19, 2018

Hispanic-serving institutions partner with CHESS

Héctor D. Abruña, the Emile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been working to promote underrepresented minorities in the sciences at Cornell for more than 30 years. His efforts and hard work are coming to fruition in the form of grant funding from NSF, which will help students from Puerto Rico access resources at CHESS.
Faculty Positions Available at the University of New Mexico
Faculty Positions Available at the University of New Mexico
Oct 31, 2018

Faculty Positions Available at the University of New Mexico

The Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM) is seeking applicants for two open-rank faculty positions (hiring level commensurate with experience). We seek innovative and collaborative researchers and educators in broad areas of chemical engineering.
NSF Awards New PREM Grants
NSF Awards New PREM Grants
Aug 14, 2018

NSF Awards New PREM Grants

The National Science Foundation recently awarded eight new PREM grants to help support materials research collaborations between minority-serving institutions and large research facilities across the U.S.
Donor-Acceptor Binary Organic Compounds – Charge Transfer (CT) Complexes
Donor-Acceptor Binary Organic Compounds – Charge Transfer (CT) Complexes
Aug 2, 2018
New Mexico Highlands University - Ohio State University MRSEC

Donor-Acceptor Binary Organic Compounds – Charge Transfer (CT) Complexes

Tatiana Timofeeva, New Mexico Highlands University

Charge transfer materials are important components of organic electronics for applications in OLED, solar batteries and transistors. Structure-properties relations for this series of materials, including shapes of their crystals, were studied experimentally and computationally in connectio
Machine-Learning Algorithms for Nano-Material Characterization
Machine-Learning Algorithms for Nano-Material Characterization
Aug 2, 2018
New Mexico Highlands University - Ohio State University MRSEC

Machine-Learning Algorithms for Nano-Material Characterization

Gil Gallegos, New Mexico Highlands University

The finite difference-time domain (FDTD) models for clusters of known substrate nano-particle distributions were developed. Additional models utilizing open source finite element analysis (FEA) software (ELMER) and commercial FEA software (COMSOL) were also developed. These models will be
NSF Research Fellow Graduates from Princeton with High Honors
NSF Research Fellow Graduates from Princeton with High Honors
Jun 22, 2018

NSF Research Fellow Graduates from Princeton with High Honors

Electrical engineering student Hans Hanley recently graduated from Princeton University as a Summa Cum Laude. Hanley, whose focus is on cybersecurity and personal privacy in the digital age will be heading next to the University of Oxford at Worcester College to pursue master’s degrees in computer science as well as mathematics and foundations of computer science.
Self-assembling polymer/clay nanocomposites applied to fruit for shelf life extension
Self-assembling polymer/clay nanocomposites applied to fruit for shelf life extension
Jun 5, 2018
Texas State University, San Marcos-Research Triangle MRSEC

Self-assembling polymer/clay nanocomposites applied to fruit for shelf life extension

Maedeh Dabbaghianamiri, Carlos Corona, G. W. Beall; Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program, Texas State University  

In previous work Texas State University team members  discovered a self-assembling nanocomposite formed between polyvinylpyrrolidone and montmorillonite clay that exhibits high gas barrier properties. This self assembling phenomena has been extended to other polymers including polyvinyl al
Using Iron with Oxide Nanosheets to Enhance Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Charge Storage
Using Iron with Oxide Nanosheets to Enhance Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Charge Storage
Jun 5, 2018
Texas State University, San Marcos-Research Triangle MRSEC

Using Iron with Oxide Nanosheets to Enhance Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Charge Storage

Niu, S.;  McFeron, R.; Godínez-Salomón, F.; Chapman, B.S.; Damin, C.A.; Tracy, J.B.; Augustyn, V.; Rhodes, C.P. Enhanced Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Charge Storage of Iron Oxide Nanosheets, Chemistry of Materials, 2017, 29, 7794-7807  

Research at Texas State University (MSI) and MSREC partner NC State demonstrated that iron oxide (g-Fe2O3) could be synthesized as a nanosheet architecture which resulted in significantly higher Li-ion capacities than nanoparticles; this work can provide enhanced cathodes for lower cost Li