• Meet Seven Faculty Helping to Run the University This Year

    February 29, 2016

    The Provost Fellows program is back and bigger than before with seven fellows selected this year to assist with a packed agenda of University initiatives.

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  • Research Reveals Carbon Films Can Give Microchips Energy Storage Capability

    February 11, 2016

    After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers led by Drexel University’s Yury Gogotsi, PhD, and Patrice Simon, PhD, of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, have confirmed that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips and their power sources to become one and the same.

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  • The Future of Medicine Could Be Found In This Tiny Crystal Ball

    February 03, 2016

    A Drexel University materials scientist has discovered a way to grow a crystal ball in a lab. Not the kind that soothsayers use to predict the future, but a microscopic version that could be used to encapsulate medication in a way that would allow it to deliver its curative payload more effectively inside the body.

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