2017 | Drexel Engineering

- Meet Drexel's New 10 Foot Tall Teaching Tool
  
  October 18, 2017
  
  Standing nearly 10 feet tall and situated outside the Bossone Research Enterprise Cente, the steel teaching sculpture is a welcome addition for Drexel engineering students.
  
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- Steel Sculpture Installed Outside of Bossone Research Center
  
  October 17, 2017
  
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- Saad Intikhab and Oliver Harris Receive Awards at Annual Electrochemical Society Meeting
  
  October 12, 2017
  
  The Electrochemical Society held it's 232nd Annual Meeting in National Harbor, MD on Oct 1-5, 2017. Saad Intikhab, advised by Dr. Joshua Snyder, won the poster competition and Oliver Harris, advised by Dr. Maureen Tang, placed as honorable mention.
  
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- Marcolongo's New Book Offers Roadmap to Academic Entrepreneurship
  
  October 11, 2017
  
  Drexel Materials Professor and Department Head Michele Marcolongo has published a new book, Academic Entrepreneurship: How to Bring Your Scientific Discovery to a Successful Commercial Product, an essential guide for translating research discoveries to commercial products.
  
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- Just Squeeze In — Drexel Materials Researchers Discover When Spaces Are Tight, Nature Loosens Its Laws
  
  October 09, 2017
  
  An international team of researchers, including Drexel Materials' Yury Gogotsi, PhD, observed that ions will forgo their typical alternating charge ordering when they are forced to jam into a small, sub-nanometer-sized, space. The discovery could lead to safer energy storage devices and better water filtration membranes.
  
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- New Microscope Technology Gives Drexel Materials Researchers a Detailed Look at Structure and Composition of Materials
  
  October 05, 2017
  
  Researchers from the Dynamic Characterization Group, led by Mitra Taheri, PhD, Hoeganaes associate professor, recently published their findings from a side-by-side test of a newly developed direct detection camera and a conventional indirect detection camera, both developed by Gatan. Their piece in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, suggests that applying a direct detection sensor to standard electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) will greatly enhance scientists ability to study a materials structure and chemistry at the nanometer level.
  
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- Nanofibers May Give Battery Electrodes a Needed Boost
  
  October 02, 2017
  
  Research from Kalra lab featured in several tech news sites including IEEE Spectrum, Electronics 360, Phys.org, The Engineer, Newenergyandfuel.
  
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- Meet Drexel’s New 10-Foot-Tall Teaching Tool
  
  September 27, 2017
  The steel teaching sculpture installed outside the Bossone Research Enterprise Center contains all of the members and connections found on any steel building, giving engineering students a hands-on way to visualize what they learn in class.
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- Drexel Researchers Make a Carbon Nanofiber Supercapacitor (Without The Flammable Ingredients)
  
  September 26, 2017
  
  A group of Drexel University researchers have created a fabric-like material electrode that could help make energy storage devices — batteries and supercapacitors — faster and less susceptible to leaks or disastrous meltdowns. Their design for a new supercapacitor, which looks something like a furry sponge infused with gelatin, offers a unique alternative to the flammable electrolyte solution that is a common component in these devices.
  
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- New Microscope Technology Gives Drexel Researchers a Detailed Look at Structure and Composition of Materials
  
  September 21, 2017
  
  At their core, electron microscopes work a lot like a movie projectors. A high-powered beam passes through a material and it projects something — usually something we really want to see — onto a screen on the other side. With most electron microscopes, however, capturing data is like trying to project a movie onto a dirty screen that is too small to see the whole projection. But a new camera technology, developed by researchers at Drexel University, is enabling the microscopes to present a clearer, more complete and detailed look at their featured presentation.
  
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