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Rice engineers find a way to turn water pollution into valuable chemicals

January 15, 2020

Rice University researchers have identified a simpler way to rid water of cancer-causing pollutants and turn them into valuable chemicals.

A 3D model by Rice University materials scientists shows the phase evolution of a delithiating lithium iron phosphate cathode undergoing rapid discharge. The "fingerlike" shape adds stress to the system that researchers suspect can lead to cracks in the cathode that degrade the battery. (Credit: Mesoscale Materials Science Group/Rice University)

Not so fast: Some batteries can be pushed too far

January 14, 2020

Fast charge and discharge of some lithium-ion batteries with intentional defects degrades their performance and endurance, according to Rice University engineers.

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People, papers and presentations Jan 13, 2020

January 13, 2020

George Abbey, senior fellow in space policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, was elected to the Lone Star Flight Museum's Texas Aviation Hall of Fame. He will be inducted at a luncheon May 8 at Houston's Ellington Airport.

Rice University researchers boosted the stability of their low-energy, copper-ruthenium syngas photocatalysts by shrinking the active sites to single atoms of ruthenium (blue). (Image by John Mark Martirez/UCLA)

Gasification goes green

January 10, 2020

Rice University engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of syngas producers.

A structural view of the light-sensing part of PixJ from the side and above captured through X-ray crystallography demonstrates changes in the signaling protein when excited by light. The protein, part of the phytochromes responsible for letting plants sense the presence of light, was one of the first analyzed by researchers at Rice and elsewhere at the upgraded laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. (Credit: Jonathan Clinger/Rice University)

X-rays show how light transforms photosynthesis ‘switch’

January 7, 2020

Researchers at Rice and their colleagues get their first detailed look at how plant proteins reconfigure themselves when exposed to light.

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Treat nonviolent drug offenses as public health issue, Baker Institute paper recommends

January 6, 2020

Drug use among people arrested for nonviolent drug offenses should be treated primarily as a public health issue, according to drug policy experts at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition.

The caduceus, often depicted as a symbol of medicine, and a cohesin protein.

Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA

January 2, 2020

Theoretical simulations at Rice University suggest structural maintenance of chromosome proteins coil not only around each other but also around the strands of DNA they help manipulate. These strands are formed into loops that regulate transcription and other cellular processes.

A pattern of 1.5-millimeter microneedles that contain vaccine and fluorescent quantum dots are applied as a patch.

Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record

December 18, 2019

Keeping track of a child’s shots could be so much easier with technology invented by a new Rice University professor and his colleagues.

Carbon Hub is a climate change research initiative led by Rice University

Rice University launches bold climate change initiative with Shell

December 9, 2019

With initial support from Shell, Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons. Carbon Hub's goal is a zero-emissions future in which hydrocarbons are not burned. Instead, they are split to make clean hydrogen energy and valuable carbon materials.

premature baby undergoing treatment

Malawi study confirms lasting impact of life-saving technology

September 20, 2019

A new study finds Malawi made sustained improvements in the survival of babies with respiratory illness by adopting CPAP nationwide.

Rice University physicists (from left) Tong Chen, Pengcheng Dai, David Tam, Andriy Nevidomskyy, Bin Gao and Emilia Morosan

Physicists find first possible 3D quantum spin liquid

July 15, 2019

Rice physicists show cerium zirconium pyrochlore qualifies as the first possible 3D quantum spin liquid.

illustration of wireless brain-to-brain communication

Feds fund creation of headset for high-speed brain link

May 20, 2019

A Rice University-led team of neuroengineers is developing nonsurgical headset technology for brain-to-brain communication "at the speed of thought."

scale-model of a lung-mimicking air sac with airways and blood vessels

Organ bioprinting gets a breath of fresh air

May 2, 2019

Bioengineers have cleared a major hurdle on the path to 3D printing replacement organs with a breakthrough technique for bioprinting tissues.

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Most British scientists cited in study feel Richard Dawkins’ work misrepresents science

October 31, 2016

Controversial British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is well-known for his criticism of religion, but a new Rice University study of British scientists reveals that a majority who mentioned Dawkins’ work during research interviews reject his approach to public engagement

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Nanotubes assemble! Rice introduces ‘Teslaphoresis’

April 14, 2016

Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil causes carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires, a phenomenon they call “Teslaphoresis.”

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