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Odd angles make for strong spin-spin coupling

June 18, 2021

HOUSTON – (May 25, 2021) – Sometimes things are a little out of whack, and it turns out to be exactly what you need.

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Executives wildly overestimate financial benefits of strategy planning, research finds

June 18, 2021

Research shows executives likely to overestimate financial benefits of strategy planning

Crumpled paper symbolizing ideas.

Rice U. study: Use rewards effectively to boost creativity

June 17, 2021

HOUSTON – (June 17, 2021) – To boost employees’ creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards for them to choose from, according to a new study by management experts at Rice University, Tulane University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and National Taiwan Normal University.

Rice University graduate student Valeriia Sobolevskaia at the on-campus well site being developed to help geoscientists continue development of fiber-optic sensors to find and evaluate small faults at underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs. (Credit: Ajo-Franklin Lab/Rice University)

Seismic study will help keep carbon underground

June 17, 2021

A Department of Energy grant to Rice geoscientists enables development of fiber-optic sensors to find and evaluate small faults at underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs.

Gang Bao

Sickle cell advance incorporates Rice lab's tech

June 16, 2021

Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao, a pioneer in the search for a way to treat and perhaps cure sickle cell disease, is co-author of a significant step forward revealed in Science Translational Medicine and led by his colleagues at Stanford University.

Three gas-phase molecules react at high temperatures during chemical vapor deposition to form molybdenum disulfide, a two-dimensional semiconductor that could find use in next-generation electronics. In this illustration, molybdenum atoms are purple, oxygen is red and sulfur is yellow. (Credit: Illustration by Jincheng Lei/Rice University)

Rice lab peers inside 2D crystal synthesis

June 11, 2021

Scientific studies describing the most basic processes often have the greatest impact in the long run. A new work by Rice University engineers could be one such, and it’s a gas, gas, gas for nanomaterials.

6-10 Water

Texas must address groundwater future, says Baker Institute expert

June 10, 2021

Long-term water security is essential for the future of Texas, and the state acutely needs a common law system that can balance world-scale agricultural activity, industrial development and urban growth while also protecting private property rights, according to new research from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Texas State University’s The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.

Guido Pagano

Time crystals' time is coming

June 10, 2021

A recently arrived Rice University professor preparing to study quantum systems assembled from the ground up with individual atoms has two significant papers on which to build his reputation.

Strategy

Executives aren't sold on strategy planning, research finds

June 9, 2021

New research shows executives doubt the effectiveness of strategy planning, which is conducted by an overwhelming majority of large companies in the United States. That attitude may doom such plans’ successful implementation, the researchers argue.

Lan Li's medical humanities workshop and coding crash course created a pulse-inspired art exhibition at Rice’s Solar Studios

A heartbeat away

June 8, 2021

How a medical humanities workshop and coding crash course created a pulse-inspired art exhibition at Rice’s Solar Studios.

Rice University bioscientists Eric Wice (left) and Julia Saltz with the experimental setup they used to study the hereditary nature of individual's positions in social networks.

Popularity runs in families

June 7, 2021

f identical versions of 20 people lived out their lives in dozens of different worlds, would the same people be popular in each world?

A simple chemical process developed at Rice University creates light and highly absorbent aerogels based on covalent organic frameworks for environmental remediation or as membranes for batteries and other applications. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Absorbent aerogels show some muscle

June 7, 2021

A simple chemical process developed at Rice University creates light and highly absorbent aerogels that can take a beating.

Materials scientists Jun Lou and Boyu Zhang

Hexagonal boron nitride's remarkable toughness unmasked

June 2, 2021

It's official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials, so resistant to cracking that it defies a century-old theoretical description engineers still use to measure toughness.

Andrew Schaefer

NIH supports mathematical optimization of tumor treatment

June 2, 2021

A new strategy to reduce the side effects suffered by patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancers now has the support of the National Institutes of Health.

Visualization of soft matter tubes

Molecular jiggling has implications for carbon nanotube fibers

May 28, 2021

New research suggests the jiggling motion of carbon nanotubes suspended in liquid solutions could have implications for the structure, processing and properties of nanotube fibers formed from those solutions.

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