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Simulating complex catalysts key to making cheap, powerful fuel cells
UW–Madison chemical engineers have made an advance that brings cost-effective fuel cells closer to reality.
White House puts materials initiative spotlight on UW–Madison research
The UW projects created a material that both conducts and insulates, and a way for undergraduate students to use cutting-edge tools to extract information from vast pools of data.
Tiny high-performance solar cells turn power generation sideways
The miniature solar panels could power myriad personal devices — wearable medical sensors, smartwatches, even autofocusing contact lenses.
Tiny 3-D models may yield big insights into ovarian cancer
With a unique approach that draws on 3-D printing technologies, a team of UW–Madison researchers is developing new tools for understanding how ovarian cancer develops in women.
Computer-generated database of diffusion values is shared online
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers recently used powerful computers to quickly and accurately develop the world’s largest computed database of information about an important materials-mixing process called diffusion.
New material, picked by computers, could boost power of vacuum electronics
Engineers at UW–Madison have identified a substance that could vastly improve the technology for devices such as microwave ovens and X-ray machines.
New high-power Evinrude outboard built with UW–Madison software
The engine maker got some help from an unlikely source: code originally written to understand the motion of air after an atomic bomb explosion.
Fast, stretchy circuits could yield new wave of wearable electronics
The advance by UW engineers could drive the Internet of Things and a much more connected, high-speed wireless world.
Johnson Controls, Engineering, UW-Milwaukee team up to improve vehicle fuel efficiency
Johnson Controls is partnering with the College of Engineering and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on two multi-year research projects aimed at enhancing the vehicle fuel efficiency.
Single-step hydrogen peroxide production could be cleaner, more efficient
The work opens new avenues for the direct synthesis of a chemical needed in large volumes for the laundry and paper bleaching industry.
UW tech spinoff promises to rethink design with ultra-fast software
Everything changes if you can figure out a way to keep a "hungry" computer processor fed.
Extraordinary effort merits posthumous Ph.D. for Schuff
Craig Schuff died in October from complications of his paralysis, only months away from wrapping up his doctoral dissertation.
UW-Madison’s Brennan named to lead National Library of Medicine
The library, which traces its origins to 1836, has grown to become the largest repository of medical knowledge anywhere.
Biomass blues: Breaking up not so hard to do
A UW spinoff is advancing an audacious effort to convert biomass into three profitable streams of industrial chemicals.
Squished cells could shape design of synthetic materials
Nobody knew what would happen if something soft and squishy like a synthetic vesicle got into the mix.
Antenna design turns entire vehicles into broadcasting equipment
UW–Madison engineers are working to increase the effective size of antennas by turning the military vehicles that carry them into transmitters.
New material combines useful, typically incompatible properties
A team of engineers and physicists has created an entirely new material in which completely contradictory properties can coexist.
With simple process, engineers fabricate fastest flexible silicon transistor
The transistor can transmit data wirelessly, which could unlock advances in applications ranging from wearable electronics to sensors.
Built-in shades may protect delicate sensors from blinding light
Even commonplace laser pointers can fry the optics of sensitive cameras. Optical limiters may be able to shade those eyes.
New Morgridge research team leader foresees era of ‘smart microscopes’
Jan Huisken, a scientist who develops tools to image biology in its unaltered natural state, will lead the medical engineering focus area at the Morgridge Institute for Research.