Engineering

Rice University graduate student Lebing Chen used a high-temperature furnace to make chromium triiodide crystals

Rice physicists find 'magnon' origins in 2D magnet

Rice physicists have confirmed the topological origins of magnons, magnetic features they discovered three years ago in a 2D material that could prove useful for spintronics.

Rice University theorists have calculated flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes. The electrical potential (P) of atoms on either side of a graphene sheet (top) are identical, but not when the sheet is curved into a nanotube. Double-walled nanotubes (bottom) show unique effects as band gaps in inner and outer tubes are staggered. (Credit: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University)

Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages

Rice theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.

An illustration depicts the atomic structure of double-layer borophene. In this image, all atoms are boron, with the pink atoms specifically involved in bonding between the layers. Courtesy of Northwestern University

Bilayer borophene is a first

Scientists make bilayer borophene for the first time. The versatile 2D material shows promise for quantum electronics, energy storage and sensors.

Man wearing smart shirt

‘Smart’ shirt keeps tabs on the heart

Carbon nanotube thread woven into athletic shirts gathered electrocardiogram and heart rate data that matched standard monitors and beat chest-strap monitors. The fibers are flexible and the shirts are machine washable.

Rice bioengineer Isaac Hilton

Trailblazing Rice bioengineer is turning cells into disease fighters

Rice University bioengineer Isaac Hilton has been awarded an NIH Trailblazer Award to create synthetic circular DNA that can be used to reprogram cells as disease fighters.

Rice University has been awarded a $4 million grant by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center. (Credit: Illustration by Olivia Flynn/Bashor Lab)

CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center

Rice faculty members led by bioengineer Gang Bao have been awarded a $4 million CPRIT grant to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center.

Rice, Penn State and Boise State have won a federal grant to expand ATOMIC, a national research center that develops atom-thin 2D coatings via university, industry and government partnerships

National 2D materials research center wins NSF funding

Rice, Penn State and Boise State have won a federal grant to expand ATOMIC, a national research center that develops atom-thin 2D coatings via university, industry and government partnerships.

Carbon nanotubes woven into thread-like fibers and sewn into fabrics become a thermoelectric generator that can turn heat from the sun or other sources into energy in a project developed at Rice University. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power

Carbon nanotubes woven into thread-like fibers and sewn into fabrics become a thermoelectric generator that can turn heat from the sun or other sources into energy.

Abstract image to accompany column about the current and future states of quantum computing

The Way I See It: The state of quantum computing

Ken Kennedy Institute Executive Director Angela Wilkins discusses the development and future of quantum computing.

Rice Provost Reggie DesRoches and others on tour of chemical manufacturing startup Syzygy Plasmonics

DesRoches, Nakhleh, others tour startup Syzygy Plasmonics

Rice's provost, dean of engineering and others toured chemical manufacturing startup Syzygy Plasmonics last week.

Laura Segatori

‘Smart cells’ show promise to treat disease

Laura Segatori wins NIH backing to develop synthetic biological circuits for cells that may someday sense trouble and respond by making just enough of the appropriate drugs.

Reginald DesRoches

Rice provost, structural engineer available to comment on Haiti earthquake

HOUSTON – (Aug. 15, 2021) – Rice University Provost Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering with expertise in structural engineering, is available to discuss this weekend’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti.

CAPTION: Ruth Adaimoabasi Udo, left, discusses her work with Marcia O’Malley, Rice’s Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, at the IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Udo won the Outstanding Poster Award for the EngMed REU program. Photo by Jeff Fitlow

10 winners at IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

Posters by 10 summer interns were the best at this year’s IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons.

Rice expert: Using carbon is key to decarbonizing economy

Rice University carbon materials expert Matteo Pasquali is available to discuss ways to slash carbon dioxide emissions and rapidly decarbonize the global economy.

A slice of microbial mat from a Yellowstone Park hot spring

Data scientists go to the mat to learn about microbial networks

A project led by Rice University data scientists will attempt to define "social networks" in microbiomes, starting with microbial mats that thrive in Yellowstone Park's hot springs.