• In Summer Showcase, Drexel Research STARs Set to Shine

    August 28, 2017

    Since 2007, the STAR Scholars Program has held a showcase to highlight the research Drexel students do over the summer. This year’s edition on Aug. 31 will include several Dragons who went off-campus — some as far as India — to learn more after their freshman year.

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  • Drexel researchers have reported that adding nanodiamonds to the electrolyte solution in lithium batteries can prevent the formation of dendrites, the tendril-like deposits of ions that can grow inside a battery over time and cause hazardous malfunctions.

    Recipe for Safer Batteries — Just Add Diamonds

    August 28, 2017

    Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Bach professor in the College of Engineering, and his research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, recently published their work — entitled “Nanodiamonds Suppress Growth of Lithium Dendrites” — in the journal Nature Communications. In it, they describe a process by which nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition, called plating, that can lead to hazardous short-circuiting of lithium ion batteries.

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  • Recipe for Safer Batteries — Just Add Diamonds

    August 25, 2017

    While lithium-ion batteries, widely used in mobile devices from cell phones to laptops, have one of the longest lifespans of commercial batteries today, they also have been behind a number of recent meltdowns and fires due to short-circuiting in mobile devices. In hopes of preventing more of these hazardous malfunctions researchers at Drexel University have developed a recipe that can turn electrolyte solution — a key component of most batteries — into a safeguard against the chemical process that leads to battery-related disasters.

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  • Vladislavis Sautkulis

    Vladislavis Sautkulis Hopes to Build Iron Man Style Suit

    August 24, 2017

    Imagine Iron Man’s strong suit of armor. That’s what Vladislavis Sautkulis ’19 is working to create, minus the weapons and flight capabilities, of course.

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  • Dr. Soroush Awarded NSF Grant

    August 17, 2017

    Dr. Soroush was awarded an NSF grant for his research titled, “GOALI: Collaborative Research: Model-Predictive Safety Systems for 

    Predictive Detection of Operation Hazards.” 

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  • Water Testing

    Media Watch: Want to know what's in your water?

    August 15, 2017

    Charles Haas, PhD, LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering and head of the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department in the College of Engineering, who is a renowned expert in assessing health risks associated with chemical and biological agents in water, weighed in on the Environmental Working Group's water testing results database.

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  • Ph.D. Student Receives Foundation of the Association of Energy Engineers Scholarship

    August 15, 2017

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  • Chris Li

    Staying Dry on a Rainy Day

    August 10, 2017

    Professor Christopher Li receives a collaborative NSF grant to develop a method for altering materials’ surface properties through the use of polymers to improve new materials development.

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  • Ph.D. Student Receives Geosynthetic Institute Fellowship

    August 09, 2017

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  • Publication by Drs. Lau and Soroush Featured in I&EC Research Virtual Special Issue

    August 08, 2017

    Drs. Lau and Soroush’s article “Influence of oCVD Polyaniline Film Chemistry in Carbon-Based Supercapacitors” was included in the I&EC Research Virtual Special Issue “Invited Papers from ACS Philadelphia”.

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