Using light’s properties to indirectly see inside a cell membrane
This new technique can resolve interactions between various lipid molecules, enzymes and fluorescent probes with detail that has never been achieved previously.
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Henriksen lands CAREER grant to chase electron effects
Erik Henriksen, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation. His grant, expected to...
Loomis wins American Chemical Society’s 2020 Saint Louis Award
Richard Loomis, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won the American Chemical Society’s 2020 Saint Louis Section Award.
Researchers one step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts
Study found locusts can quickly discriminate between different explosives’ smells
Engineers to use $6.7 million grant to build power plant of the future
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has awarded $6.7 million to a team headed by Richard Axelbaum,the Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington...
Agonafer to develop cooling solutions with Cisco grant
The Cisco Research Center University Funding committee has recently awarded Damena Agonafer, assistant professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering's Department of Mechanical Engineering ＆ Materials Science a one-year, $100,000 grant to...
WashU engineering, orthopedic team to study painful degenerative condition
With new advances in imaging and modeling, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis can now study changes to the affected nerve cells and cross talk between degenerating discs and sensory nerves looking at changes that might be behind the...
Storing energy in red bricks
Red bricks — some of the world’s cheapest and most familiar building materials — can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
New metallic glass research brings in artificial intelligence
Katharine Flores, professor of mechanical engineering & materials science and director of the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, has received a three-year, $379,392 grant from the National Science Foundation to use artificial...
Turning rust into supercapacitors
Though it sounds like alchemy, D’Arcy Lab combines technologies to engineer cutting-edge microsupercapacitors from rust.