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Safe Lithium Batteries Get a Boost
UMD researchers have developed lithium dendrite suppression parameters and electrolytes for longer-lasting batteries that can operate under extreme conditions.  More »

Engineering Faculty Selected for New MPower Seed Grant Funding
Four projects jointly led by Maryland Engineering and UMB researchers awarded to advance collaborative research in areas of high importance.  More »

Expanded Wood Fiber for High-Performance Solid-State Paper Batteries
UMD research group invented the first high-performance solid-state paper batteries by a new molecular scale engineering method.  More »

Chunsheng Wang Wins 2021 ECS Battery Division Research Award 
Wang will be recognized at a ceremony during the fall meeting.  More »

Clark School Innovators Honored with Invention of the Year Award Nominations
Among the nine 2021 Invention of the Year nominees, four are led by or include Clark School researchers.  More »

Maryland Graduate Engineering Ranked #10 Public in the Nation
From extreme batteries to windows made from wood, Clark School’s trendsetting work ranks it among the country’s Top 10 public engineering schools for the 3rd consecutive year.  More »

New, superfast method for ceramic manufacturing could open door to AI-driven materials discovery
UMD engineers have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials.  More »

Maryland Engineers Open Door to Big New Library of Tiny Nanoparticles
A new study published in Science Advances expands the landscape of nanomaterials, and what we can do with them.  More »

Improve the Outcome: Vascular Liver Tissue
Creating vascular organ tissue in a lab could open new doors to drug testing, disease modelling, and organ transplants.  More »

What’s Next for Next-Gen Batteries?
High-energy-density polymeric cathode for fast-charge sodium and multivalent batteries.  More »

Cooling Wood: An Eco-Friendly Building Material
UMD and Boulder engineers create strong, sustainable solution for passive cooling  More »

Korean Energy Company and UMD Partner to Create Next-Gen Batteries
CMNS and Clark School faculty lead project  More »

Reversible Chemistry Clears Path for Safer Batteries
UMD and ARL scientists create water-based battery with outstanding performance  More »

Wood-based Technology Creates Electricity from Heat
Briber, Das and Hu make novel heat-conversion membrane  More »

Wang Group Develops Highly Reversible 5.3 V Battery
Research paper published in Chem.  More »

NanoCenter Hot Papers Newsletter, Issue 1: ALD
Every six months, we round up interesting and significant papers that include work done in AIMLab or FabLab.   More »

Scientists Develop First Fabric to Automatically Cool or Insulate Depending on Conditions
University of Maryland researchers have created a fabric that dynamically regulates heat passing through it  More »

Nanostructure of carbon and metal could solve potassium-battery puzzle
Rational design produces a missing piece of battery chemistry for cheaper, capacious batteries  More »

EFRC NEES-2 meeting poster contest winners
Accomplishments meeting announces poster awards  More »

Breakthrough protonic fuel cell study published in Nature
MSE assistant research scientist Angelique Jarry contributed to the study.  More »

Scientists Mix the Unmixable to Create 'Shocking' Nanoparticles
Researchers are the first to create nanoscale particles composed of up to eight distinct elements generally known to be immiscible.  More »

Wood Provides a Spongy, Eco-Friendly Replacement for Synthetic Materials
Liangbing Hu’s research group develops wood-based aerogel, published in ACS Nano.  More »

UMD Researchers Develop Stable, Robust Li-ion Battery Chemistry
New battery created by Chunsheng Wang's group offers safety, durability and flexibility.   More »

UMD Researchers Work to Mitigate Water Scarcity Crisis with Solar-Powered Devices Made of Wood
Low-cost, enviro-friendly devices use natural nanoengineering  More »

UMD Researchers Offer Solution to Volatile Battery Chemistry in Electronics
4.0V Water-Based Li-ion Batteries Achieved by ChBE Professor Chunsheng Wang's Research Group  More »

A nerve modeled on a battery
NEES PI helps make new organic artificial synapse  More »

Stacked nanocrystals offer a new twist on handedness
UMD physics prof control 'chirality' in tiny inorganic arrangements  More »

NanoDay2016 Features Inspiring Speakers, Poster Awards
200 scientists and students attend bi-annual nanoscience conference at UMD  More »

Tiny Diamonds Could Enable Huge Advances in Nanotechnology
UMD researchers develop a new method for pairing nanoscale diamonds with other nanomaterials  More »

Experts available for comment on upcoming Nobels
Lithium-ion batteries and nanowires are candidates for chemistry and physics prizes; UMD scientists can explain importance  More »

Scientific Reports Invites Yang to Serve as Editorial Board Member
Associate Professor Bao Yang invited to serve as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports.  More »

Faster Charging Technique Boosts Battery's Capacity
Unique in situ measurement of optical and electrical transport led to discovery.  More »

New UMD Synthesis Method May Shape Future of Nanostructures, Clean Energy
Findings advance efficient solar splitting of water into hydrogen fuel  More »

Room To Move: Spacing Graphite Layers Makes a Better Battery Anode
New process designed to make Na-ion batteries an effective alternative to Li-ion.  More »

Clark School Engineers Recently Awarded Grants
Clark School-affiliated professors receive research funding  More »

UMD Scientists and Engineers Present Papers at American Chemical Society Meeting
Exploring “the chemistry of energy and food” … and more  More »

Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor & Nano Materials
Research may lead to alternative energy advances  More »

Min Ouyang to Offer Fall Course in Nanotechnology
"Special Topics in Physics and Engineering Materials: Physics, Material Chemistry and Device Applications at the Nanoscale"  More »

Min Ouyang Receives Beckman Young Investigators Award
Assistant Physics Professor and NanoCenter member Min Ouyang has been awarded a three-year grant from the Arnold and Mable Beckman Foundation.  More »

Min Ouyang Receives ONR Young Investigator Award
Physicist Min Ouyang awarded over $300,000 by the Office of Naval Research to study spintronics  More »

NanoCenter research members receive $500k NSF MRI award
Research Professors of the Maryland NanoCenter, were awarded a NSF MRI grant totaling $500k.  More »

Dr. Min Ouyang Selected as Sloan Fellow, Receives CAREER Award
Showing exemplary performance as both reasearcher and professor, Dr. Min Ouyang was awarded a 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.  More »

NSF Renews Support for MRSEC
The Maryland MRSEC, led by founding director . Ellen Williams, has been renewed by the National Science Foundation following a ten-year record of success in research, education, and outreach. The MRSEC will purse two research thrusts, in low-dimensional interfaces (IRG 1) and in multifuncitonal magnetic oxides (IRG 2), as well as a selection of seed projects.  More »