Elliot Strand in a greenhouse.

PhD graduate earns Best Thesis Award for printed organic electronics research

Nov. 14, 2023

Elliot Strand (MatSci PhD'23) is being honored for his PhD research, 鈥淧rinted Organic Electronics for Plant and Environmental Monitoring." Strand successfully defended his thesis earlier this year and is now receiving the 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award from...

Models of compressed carbon nanotube assemblies

CU Boulder earns NASA award for developing materials that reduce spaceflight costs

Sept. 6, 2023

Current and former members of University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Heinz AV名湿 Group have earned prestigious NASA Group Achievement Awards for their research centered on designing lightweight, high-strength materials aimed at reducing the costs of spaceflights. Crafting such materials is challenging, requiring combining tiny sub-nanometer-sized molecules to meter-sized panels, said Hendrik...

Sanghamitra Neogi

CU Boulder to lead million-dollar DARPA computational microelectronics research

Aug. 14, 2023

Sanghamitra Neogi has earned a key Department of Defense contract to tackle a big problem with tiny electronics: microchips crippled by heat. An assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, Neogi is leading a multi-university research team to...

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TEAMUP Consortium funded to develop more stable and affordable tandem solar cells

April 20, 2023

New consortium aims to accelerate the introduction of the next generation of solar panels The TEAMUP consortium, that brings together researchers from Academic, Industrial and Federal Laboratories, seeks to identify and solve the factors that cause advanced perovskite materials to be unstable, paving the way for the integration into existing...

An "artificial muscle" made, in part, from material designed for biodegradable grocery bags.

Grad student helps design 鈥榓rtificial muscles鈥 you can toss in the compost bin

April 20, 2023

Say 鈥渉ello鈥 to the robots of the future: They鈥檙e soft and flexible enough to bounce off walls or squeeze into tight spaces. And when you鈥檙e done with them, you can toss these machines into a compost bin to decompose. That鈥檚 the vision of a team of engineers, including CU Boulder...

AV名湿 Associate and first author Nicholas Weadock working in the lab.

New materials research at CU Boulder will help develop high-efficiency solar cells

April 19, 2023

AV名湿ers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Program have published new findings in Joule that could lead to the development of better hybrid lead halide perovskites 鈥 a class of materials proposed for use as low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. We asked first...

Adam Holewinski

Adam Holewinski receives Fulbright to synthesize renewable fuels and chemicals

April 11, 2023

Adam Holewinski , an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering , has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to research efficient ways to produce sustainable chemical products and fuels using electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind. Beginning in late August, Holewinski will spend five months as a 2023...

Longji Cui

Cui earns CAREER Award for research in nanoelectronics and renewable energy technology

March 20, 2023

Assistant Professor Longji Cui has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for research he hopes will improve the next generation of nanoelectronics and renewable energy technology. As nanotechnology continues to miniaturize to near atomic scale, while simultaneously becoming more powerful, the need to understand...

Madhur working in the lab Madhur Atreya working in the lab.

Biodegradable soil sensors could change farming, conservation approaches

March 6, 2023

New research from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering into biodegradable sensors may change the way farmers track, measure, and respond in real time to their soil鈥檚 microbial activity with big implications for addressing global greenhouse gas emissions. The work, recently published in Advanced Science , was led...

Sanghamitra Neogi

Faculty in Focus: Sanghamitra Neogi

Feb. 21, 2023

Sanghamitra Neogi is designing new materials at the quantum level to realize future technologies for thermal management and harsh environments like hypersonic flight. An assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Materials Science and Engineering Program, Neogi leads the CUANTUM laboratory, short for...

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