Thick electrodes’ chemistry matters more than structure for battery performance
Rice researchers showed that even if the materials used in thick battery electrodes have nearly identical structures, their internal chemistry impacts energy flow and performance differently.
Meant to inspire: New speaker series at the Ion District to build community through stories of space
Rice helped launch a new speaker series at the Ion spotlighting the human side of space exploration.
Rice researchers develop superstrong, eco-friendly materials from bacteria
Scientists at Rice and University of Houston have developed an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose into high-strength, multifunctional materials.
NSF CAREER Award funds Rice project to shrink hospital-grade imaging into wearable devices
Rice’s Lei Li wins NSF CAREER Award to develop a new generation of wearable medical imaging technology capable of visualizing deep tissue function in real time.
Computational biochemist joins Rice with CPRIT recruitment award
Computational biochemist Linna An will join Rice’s Department of Biosciences with support from a $2 million award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Rice bioengineer looks to mitochondria as key to heart failure recovery
Rice bioengineer Mario Escobar has won a Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association to develop a new therapy for heart failure.
Mark Hensley joins RBL LLC as a senior adviser
RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies, today announced the addition of Mark Hensley as a senior adviser.
Near-perfect defects in 2D material could serve as quantum bits
Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low noise, room-temperature quantum emitters in h-BN made through a scalable growth technique.
Rice scientists harness vacuum fluctuations to engineer quantum materials
Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a new cavity design that selectively enhances the quantum vacuum fluctuations of circularly polarized light in a single direction, achieving chirality — a feat that typically requires the use of a strong magnetic field.
RBL LLC welcomes James Watson to board of directors
RBL LLC announced the appointment of James Watson to its board of directors.
Rice and Houston Methodist name Chatterjee executive director of the Digital Health Institute
The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as its executive director, effective May 1.
Biotechnology governance entreaties released, echoing legacy of 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines
Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review.
Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative kicks off seminar series with Nobel laureate James Allison
The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison.
Nvidia CEO says quantum is next AI frontier — Rice experts weigh in
Rice experts can unpack and contextualize Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris today that quantum computing is reaching an inflection point
Rice students develop an award-winning adaptive exercise harness for astronauts to use in space
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design answered a challenge posed by the HumanWorks Lab and Life Science Labs at NASA and Johnson Space Center.
