The Texas House of Representatives has passed a resolution honoring Nick Fang, a Rice University alumnus and assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, for his work in helping develop a real-time flood-alert system for Houston.
Fibers made of carbon nanotubes configured as wireless antennas can be as good as copper antennas but 20 times lighter, according to Rice University researchers. The antennas may offer practical advantages for aerospace applications and wearable electronics where weight and flexibility are factors.
Patients who have to undergo a magnetic resonance imaging scan may be spared the ordeal of having to lie still in the scanner for up to 45 minutes, thanks to new technology patented by Rice University, also known as “compressed sensing” technology.
It sounds like a cliché, but things do get worse before they get better when oil and gas lines are being cleared of contaminants, according to Rice University researchers. Until now, nobody knew exactly why.
The Rice Univerrsity lab of chemist and chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali, which demonstrated its pioneering method to spin carbon nanotube into fibers in 2013, has advanced the art of making nanotube-based materials with two new papers in the American Chemical Society's ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
“You hear that forecasts have improved, and they have. But Hurricane Harvey shows we still have a long way to go. When it comes to extreme weather, we need better modeling to understand all the data, such factors as development and climate change.”
