by | Nov 2, 2021 | Biswas, Pratim, Chadha, Tandeep, Fang, Jiaxi
— Engineers in Prof. Pratim Biswas’ laboratory have developed an electrostatic precipitator device that removes ultrafine pollutants and inactivates pathogens from the air at high efficiency and low cost. This gas cleaning system has the potential to replace HEPA filters for air filtering applic…
by | Nov 2, 2021 | Banerjee, Parag, Chen, Xiao, Myung, Yoon
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Engineers in the Banerjee laboratory have developed a single-step, scalable vapor deposition process for fabricating high performance thin film perovskite materials at low temperature and atmospheric pressure. These lead-free, non-toxic films could be used as solar cell abso…
by | Oct 27, 2021 | Djuranovic, Sergej, Erath, Jessey Lee, Pavlovic Djuranovic, Slavica
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Researchers in Sergei Djuranovic’s lab at Washington University have developed polybasic peptides and polymers to block Plasmodium falciparum adhesion as a treatment for malaria. These therapeutics reduce parasite infection of human cells, making this a promising alter…
by | Oct 21, 2021 | Alazzawi, Yarub, Aono, Kenji, Chakrabartty, Shantanu, Scheller, Erica
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Engineers in Prof. Shantanu Chakrabartty’s laboratory have developed a convenient, wireless power transfer system that exploits the body’s self-capacitance to charge small, low power, wearable and minimally-invasive devices.
Wearable devices traditionally rely o…
by | Oct 8, 2021 | Axelbaum, Richard, Gopan, Akshay, Yang, Zhiwei
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Engineers in Prof. Richard Axelbaum’s laboratory have developed Modular Pressurized Coal Combustion (MPCC), an economical, flexible, coal-fired boiler/burner system that could produce electricity at 1.3% higher efficiency than a state-of-the-art coal-fired plant with t…