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Hall of Fame Highlight: Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell shares the highlights of his career, current research focus, and his thoughts on the future of materials science.
Bioinspired Approach to Cleaning Up Viscous Crude Oil Spills
A wood-derived absorbent that provides an efficient and scalable approach to the rapid clean-up of high viscosity crude oil.
Plasma and Pills Together Combat Pancreatic Tumors
Chinese researchers combined a glow‐like helium atmospheric pressure plasma jet with clinical antitumor drug‐Tegafur‐ to treat pancreatic tumor cells in vitro.
New Easy and Safe Method To Assess Brain Death
A team of Chinese and American researchers succesfully used near‐infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for fast and accurate evaluation of brain death.
Solar-Powered Moisture Harvester
Engineers find a new solution through solar-powered technology that absorbs moisture from the air and returns it as clean, usable water.
Oh Buoy! Engineering Gradient Tissues
A simple, quick and versatile approach for fabricating gradient tissues through the physical force of buoyancy.
New Route to Membraneless Reversible Desalination Batteries
Desalination technology by ferrocyanide ion-immobilized polysilsesquioxane films.
Putting a Spin on a Carbon Dioxide Photocatalysis Spin-Off
Carbon dioxide photocatalysis, a new future with three fundamental questions, how do we optimize photonic efficiency, how should we scale, and what should we make?
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