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March 31, 2016
Undergraduates Anthony Abel and Anjli Patel were recently featured in Drexel Pennoni Honors College Magazine for their research with Dr. Jason Baxter.
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March 30, 2016
You might not be aware of it, but invisible carpets of polymers are keeping things from being sticky right now. The lenses of your glasses might be coated with them to stave off smudges. They’re keeping the underbellies of ships from corroding, artificial joints from locking up and medical devices from gathering germs. The name “polymer nanobrush” doesn’t seem fitting because these bristly materials aren’t used to sweep away debris, they actually prevent it from accumulating at all.
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March 25, 2016
Five Drexel Materials students receive 2016 College of Engineering graduate fellowships.
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March 24, 2016
Drexel’s participation in the annual United Nations Conference on Climate Change in December empowered eight Drexel faculty, staff and students. Each came away with a different, rewarding experience that they’ll share at a public event next month.
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March 24, 2016
Polymer nanobrushes are made of microscopic filaments that prevent smudges on everyday objects like eyeglasses. They are usually created one bristle at a time, but the Soft Materials Lab has a better way.
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March 24, 2016
Drexel researchers have reported on a new method for producing the polymer "nanobrush" coating that is used to prevent ships from corroding, glasses from smudging and artificial joint replacements from locking up. The procedure, which involves growing two-dimensional sheets of polymer nano crystals, is more efficient and controllable than current methods — according to the researchers, it's like making a lawn by putting down sod, rather than planting grass and hoping it grows.
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March 23, 2016
Student-run radio station WKDU, center for the support of nonprofit communications Drexel Edits and the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement come together to welcome local nonprofit organizations with “Good Morning, Neighbors,” a series of biweekly radio interviews.
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March 17, 2016
PhD student Joshua Young is the recipient of an American Physical Society Division of Materials Physics 2016 Ovshinsky Student Travel Award.
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March 16, 2016
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March 16, 2016
The problem with having a microscopic robot propelled by a horde of tail-flailing bacteria is you never know where it’s going to end up. The tiny, bio-robots, which amount to a chip coated with a “carpet” of flagellated bacteria, emerged from the primordial ooze of microrobotics research a few years ago as a concept for building microscopic devices and delivering medication at the cellular level.
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March 15, 2016
Drexel Materials PhD alumni Dr. Davide Mattia and Dr. Michael Naguib have been selected as two of Drexel University Magazine’s 2016 “Forty Under Forty.”
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March 15, 2016
For a weekend this spring, Drexel’s campus will be bustling with engineering students from universities throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Drexel’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter will host the annual 2016 Mid-Atlantic Region Student Conference which will bring over 300 students from 14 universities to Drexel to participate in this 3-day conference.
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March 14, 2016
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March 14, 2016
A team of engineers at Drexel University recently published research on a method for using electric fields to help tiny bio-robots propelled by flagellated bacteria navigate around obstacles in a fluid environment. These microrobots could one day be used for building microscopic devices or even delivering medication at the cellular level.
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March 12, 2016
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March 09, 2016
Congratulations to the following Chemical and Biological Engineering Department graduate students for receiving Drexel College of Engineering awards.
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March 08, 2016
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March 08, 2016
In 2011, then astronaut Ron Garan spent six months in space on the International Space Station, giving him a life-changing perspective of the world. Ultimately, the experience led the adjunct professor to teach a new online course at Drexel’s College of Engineering as part of the Peace Engineering initiative.
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March 07, 2016
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March 07, 2016
If you live in one of four major U.S. cities chances are you’re letting the benefits of a ubiquitous natural resource go right down the drain — when it could be used to cut down your water bill. Research by a team of Drexel University environmental engineers indicates that it rains enough in Philadelphia, New York, Seattle and Chicago that if homeowners had a way to collect and store even just the rain falling on their roofs, they could flush their toilets often without having to use a drop of municipal water.
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March 07, 2016
If you live in one of four major U.S. cities chances are you’re letting the benefits of a ubiquitous natural resource go right down the drain — when it could be used to cut down your water bill. Research by a team of Drexel University environmental engineers indicates that it rains enough in Philadelphia, New York, Seattle and Chicago that if homeowners had a way to collect and store the rain falling on their roofs, they could flush their toilets often without having to use a drop of municipal water.
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March 03, 2016
Their poster was titled "Robust Near-Threshold Inverter with Improved Performance for Ultra-Low Power Applications" and won in the physical/chemical/biological aspects in electrical, electronic, and computer systems category.
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March 03, 2016
Diversity on college campuses is an on-going topic of conversation as issues are defined and redefined to accommodate new objectives.
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March 02, 2016
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March 01, 2016
Hoeganaes Associate Professor Mitra Taheri has been selected to be a 2016 Provost Fellow.
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