RN-HOME

A rendering of the Ion.

Glasscock School will offer classes at Ion innovation hub

January 10, 2020

Rice and the Ion are collaborating to offer courses to the public in technology, entrepreneurship and more.

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.

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.