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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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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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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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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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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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August 15, 2017
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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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August 09, 2017
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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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