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Novel recycling process gives old plastics new life

With a novel recycling process, Northwestern researchers break down and rebuild polyurethane to make new foam

Water Treatment facilities -Sargent

Hybrid catalyst produces critical fertilizer and cleans wastewater

Novel process could enable water treatment facilities to leverage sustainable urea production

Rogers kidney implant to see organ rejection

First device to monitor transplanted organs detects early signs of rejection

Wireless technology senses warning signs up to three weeks earlier than current methods

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Ted Sargent named co-executive director of Trienens Institute

Cross-field expert to help further Northwestern sustainability research

particle detector materials

Scientists discover a durable but sensitive material for high energy X-ray detection

New material could be superior detector for X-rays at large synchrotron facilities

implant to sense and treat cancer

Small, implantable device could sense and treat cancer

Project receives ARPA-H contract worth $45 million over five-and-a-half years

Chad Mirkin in lab

Making material advancements at the nanoscale

The work emphasized the unique properties that nanoscale structures can exhibit compared to bulk materials

 

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Pulling carbon dioxide right out of the air

Using humidity-powered technology, researchers found several new ions that facilitate low-energy carbon sequestration

 

AI Sensor

AI just got 100-fold more energy efficient

Nanoelectronic device performs real-time AI classification without relying on the cloud

CISS effect

CISS effect observed in an isolated molecule for the first time

Researchers track spin filtration phenomenon in standalone chiral molecules

Super melanin

Synthetic ‘super melanin’ speeds skin repair

An engineered version of the pigment boosts healing and may prevent sunburns in the first place

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A bacterial enzyme converts greenhouse gas to liquid biofuel

An interdisciplinary approach combining advanced spectroscopy and cryo-electron microscopy pinpoints the active site of nature’s methane oxidation catalyst.

chad MirkinImproving nanotherapeutic vaccine delivery

A more effective way of creating nanotherapeutic vaccines and medicines has been developed.

Perovskite

Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record

Researchers improve cell efficiency using a combination of molecules to address different issues

 

wearable monitor

First-of-their-kind wearables capture body sounds to continuously monitor health

New devices were tested on a range of patients, from premature babies to the elderly

 

colloidal crystal

Innovative approach unveils new avenues for nanoscale design

Northwestern University Researchers Engineer Colloidal Quasicrystals Using DNA-Modified Building Blocks

 

macular degeneration

Protein-like polymers illuminate the path to macular degeneration treatment

The proteomimetic polymers could help fight a leading cause of blindness

 

Marks research

Durable plastic pollution easily, cleanly degrades with new catalyst

Fishing nets, carpet, clothing break down without leaving harmful byproducts behind

Proteomics research

Pioneering automated proteoform imaging

Researchers create automated technique for imaging and identifying proteoforms in ovarian cancer tissue

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