Newly published research by Grainger Engineers in Mechanical Science and Engineering describes an unprecedented computational model that captures the intricate muscular architecture of an octopus arm.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explore how a multimode propulsion system that integrates both a chemical high-thrust mode and an electric low-thrust mode鈥攚hile using the same propellant鈥攃an succeed.
A new solution deposition process for semiconductors yields high-performing transistors by introducing more defects, counterintuitively. Researchers used these devices to construct high-speed logic circuits and an operational high-resolution inorganic LED display.
The new design software developed by an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign takes your concept and requirements and rapidly generates design configurations from conventional to out-of-this-world, including a 3D CAD model and performance evaluations.
A new experimental technique, reported by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the journal APL Materials, directly measures heating in spintronic devices, allowing direct comparison to other effects.
Her father was a renowned physicist who studied black holes, and her mother is a prominent molecular biophysicist. You could say that physics is in her DNA. But physics isn鈥檛 the only thing in Illinois Grainger Engineering professor Smitha Vishveshwara鈥檚 blood; so are the arts.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report a unique strategy for controlling molecular conductance by using molecules with rigid backbones鈥攕uch as ladder-type molecules, known as being shape-persistent.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have trained neural networks to predict interactions between irregularly shaped particles to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations.
Advanced imaging and AI will power the manufacture of any cancer at the push of a button.
With a new polymer that only attracts certain substances from solutions when electrically activated, researchers have taken a major step towards sustainable chemical separation.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has won a three-year, $1 million ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to mitigate barriers that impede the advancement of underrepresented STEM faculty across the Urbana-Champaign campus.
Materials science and engineering researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have found that the helical structure shows greatly enhanced conductivity compared to the 鈥渞andom coil鈥� counterparts.
Efficient technology for splitting the hydrogen-oxygen bond in water could be the key to producing low-cost, green hydrogen for energy storage at an industrial scale. Green hydrogen is expected to play a significant role in achieving the target of net zero carbon dioxide emissions. In a new study, an interdisciplinary group of researchers have identified a way to use 鈥渄efect engineering鈥� to significantly boost catalytic efficiency, taking science one step closer to sustainable, green hydrogen production.
Grainger engineers are leaders in the efforts to develop the energy systems needed to achieve a cleaner, carbon-free world.
Today, The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign joined other partners from around the state in officially announcing its leadership role in the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.
Illinois Grainger Engineering physics professor Brian DeMarco stood on stage in Chicago on Tuesday when Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced the new federal- and state-funded Quantum Proving Ground (QPG), which promises to combine scientific rigor with industry and academic expertise to design the future of quantum computing.
Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, quantum dots have a wide variety of applications ranging from displays and LED lights to chemical reaction catalysis and bioimaging. These semiconductor nanocrystals are so small鈥攐n the order of nanometers鈥攖hat their properties, such as color, are size dependent, and they start to exhibit quantum properties.
Despite gaining a bad rap in mainstream media in recent years, nanoparticles have been successfully used for decades in targeted drug delivery systems. Drug molecules can be encapsulated within biodegradable nanoparticles to be delivered to specific cells or diseased tissues.
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