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(Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have engineered living cells so they can act as a starting point for building composite materials. Using living cells as "materials scaffolds" could lead to a new class of materials, called engineered living materials, that might open the door to self-healing materials and other applications in bioelectronics, biosensing, and smart materials.

(Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have engineered living cells so they can act as a starting point for building composite materials. Using living cells as "materials scaffolds" could lead to a new class of materials, called engineered living materials, that might open the door to self-healing materials and other applications in bioelectronics, biosensing, and smart materials.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation)

By introducing defects into the structure of a metal-organic framework, Rice University researchers found they could increase the amount of toxic pollutants called perfluorooctanesulfonic acid that the metal-organic framework could hold, as well as the speed with which it could adsorb them from heavily polluted industrial wastewater.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation)

By introducing defects into the structure of a metal-organic framework, Rice University researchers found they could increase the amount of toxic pollutants called perfluorooctanesulfonic acid that the metal-organic framework could hold, as well as the speed with which it could adsorb them from heavily polluted industrial wastewater.

(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated how nanoscale defects can enhance the properties of an ultrathin, so-called 2-D material.

(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated how nanoscale defects can enhance the properties of an ultrathin, so-called 2-D material.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office)

Scientists have discovered an easier way to produce an infrared camera than the current methods. This novel method may one day lead to much more cost-effective infrared cameras, which, in turn, could enable infrared cameras for common consumer electronics and sensors to help autonomous cars see their surroundings more accurately.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office)

Scientists have discovered an easier way to produce an infrared camera than the current methods. This novel method may one day lead to much more cost-effective infrared cameras, which, in turn, could enable infrared cameras for common consumer electronics and sensors to help autonomous cars see their surroundings more accurately.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation)

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have combined graphene with nano-sized ribbons of gold to create an ultrasensitive biosensor that could help detect very small amounts of misfolded proteins, which are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, Chronic Wasting Disease, and mad cow disease.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation)

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have combined graphene with nano-sized ribbons of gold to create an ultrasensitive biosensor that could help detect very small amounts of misfolded proteins, which are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, Chronic Wasting Disease, and mad cow disease.