2020 | Drexel Engineering

- Pausing Nature's Crystal Symmetry to Advance Targeted Medicine Delivery
 
 May 01, 2020
 From snowflakes to quartz, nature’s crystalline structures form with a reliable, systemic symmetry. Researchers at Drexel University, who study the formation of crystalline materials, have shown that it’s now possible to control how crystals grow – including interrupting the symmetrical growth of flat crystals and inducing them to form hollow crystal spheres. The discovery is part of a broader design effort focused on the encapsulation of medicine for targeted drug treatments.
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- Created for Anthrax Attacks, Cold Plasma Air Filter Is Now Being Prepped to Face COVID-19
 
 April 23, 2020
 Researchers at Drexel University’s <a href="https://drexel.edu/nyheiminstitute/" style="color: #954f72;">C. & J. Nyheim Plasma Institute</a> are modifying an air sterilization system they created to combat the threat of anthrax attacks post-9-11 in hopes it can now help to ward off COVID-19.
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- Genetic Tracing 'Barcode' Is Rapidly Revealing COVID-19's Journey and Evolution
 
 April 16, 2020
 Drexel University researchers have reported a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the virus that causes COVID-19. Their preliminary analysis, using information from a global database of genetic information gleaned from coronavirus testing, suggests that there are at least six to 10 slightly different versions of the virus infecting people in America, some of which are either the same as, or have subsequently evolved from, strains directly from Asia, while others are the same as those found in Europe.
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- Water-Free Way to Make MXenes Could Mean New Uses for the Promising Nanomaterials
 
 March 13, 2020
 Drexel University researchers have discovered a different way to make the atom-thin material that presents a number of new opportunities for using it. The new discovery removes water from the MXene-making process, which means the materials can be used in applications in which water is a contaminant or hampers performance, such as battery electrodes and next-generation solar cells.
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- ECE Alumni Selected for Drexel's 40 Under 40
 
 March 13, 2020
 
 Two ECE alumni are named to the annual list of notable young alumni.
 
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- Making More MXene — Researchers Unveil a Scalable Production System for the Promising, 2D Nanomaterials
 
 March 10, 2020
 For more than a decade, two-dimensional nanomaterials, such as graphene, have been touted as the key to making better microchips, batteries, antennas and many other devices. But a significant challenge of using these atom-thin building materials for the technology of the future is ensuring that they can be produced in bulk quantities without losing their quality. For one of the most promising new types of 2D nanomaterials, MXenes, that’s no longer a problem. Researchers at Drexel University and the Materials Research Center in Ukraine have designed a system that can be used to make large quantities of the material while preserving its unique properties.
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- Drexel Sends Co-op Students Off in Style
 
 March 09, 2020
 As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of its cooperative education program this academic year, Drexel University hosted the inaugural University-wide Co-op Send-off celebration.
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- Major-switcher Memoirs: The Growing Support Systems for Undeclared Students at Drexel
 
 March 06, 2020
 Over the last five years, Drexel University has ushered in more than 1,500 undeclared students, and because of the support systems in place, they leave more confident and prepared Dragons.
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- 10 Things Your Fellow Dragons Want You to Know About Working in Big Tech
 
 February 17, 2020
 At a panel on Feb. 12 sponsored by the Steinbright Career Development Center and the College of Engineering, four students and one alumna discussed how they landed co-ops or jobs at Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google and what it was like to work there.
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- Blasting 'Forever' Chemicals Out of Water with a Vortex of Cold Plasma
 
 February 11, 2020
 Researchers from Drexel University have found a way to destroy stubbornly resilient toxic compounds, ominously dubbed “forever chemicals,” that have contaminated the drinking water of millions across the United States.
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