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fuel cell chemistry
Study boosts hope for cheaper fuel cells
Friday, January 5, 2018
Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons may be suitable replacements for platinum for fast oxygen reduction, the key reaction in fuel cells that transform chemical energy into electricity, according to Rice University researchers. The findings are from computer simulations by Rice scientists who set out to see how carbon nanomaterials can be improved for fuel-cell cathodes. 
Photo of Kim Heck and Michael Wong (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Catalyst turns nitrates into water and air
Thursday, January 4, 2018
NSF-funded NEWT Center aims for catalytic converter for nitrate-polluted water.
NEST360° presenters Queen Dube, Joy Lawn, Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Robert Miros with Rice President David Leebron at the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change finals competition Dec. 11. (Photo courtesy Rice 360)
NEST360° wins $15 million in 100&Change finals
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The $15 million will go toward reaching the Rice 360° goal of reducing preventable newborn deaths in Africa.

Hearing is believing in gene therapy's promise
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Gene editing could someday help people at risk of hearing loss from genetic mutations, according to research by a new Rice University faculty member. Xue (Sherry) Gao, who joined Rice in the fall as the Ted N. Law Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is co-lead author of a new Nature paper that reports on the promise of gene editing to treat autosomal dominant hearing diseases.
Photo and drawing of synthesized spherical, porous nanoparticles of calcium and silicate
Particle size and porous building blocks
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Rice University scientists find porous nanoparticles get tougher under pressure, but not when assembled.

A photo of a microfluidic device delivers a carbon nanotube fiber into agarose, a lab experiment stand-in for brain tissue. The device could provide a gentler method to implant wires into patients with neurological diseases and help scientists explore cognitive processes and develop implants to help people to see, to hear and to control artificial limbs.
Nanotubes go with the flow to penetrate brain tissue
Monday, December 18, 2017
 
Rice University scientists, engineers develop microfluidic devices, microelectrodes for gentle implantation. 
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I.A. Naman, Rice alumnus and Astrodome innovator, dies at 99
Friday, December 15, 2017
Israel A. Naman, who graduated with a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rice University in 1938, and was a pioneer in air-conditioning design, died Dec. 11 at age 99. In 1947, he founded I.A. Naman + Associates, Inc., a consulting engineering firm in Houston, and went on to design the air-conditioning system for the Houston Astrodome, which opened in 1965.  
Dean Reginald DesRoches and Associate Dean Bart Sinclair
Trustees honor Bart Sinclair with Distinguished Service Award
Monday, December 11, 2017
Bart Sinclair, whose association with Rice University and the George R. Brown School of Engineering began almost half a century ago, has been honored with the Rice Distinguished Service Award bestowed by the Board of Trustees.
 
Image depicting presurgical differences in patient brains. Department of Statistics, Rice University.
Presurgical imaging may predict whether epilepsy surgery will work
Monday, December 11, 2017

Surgery to remove a part of the brain to give relief to patients with epilepsy doesn’t always result in complete seizure relief, but statisticians at Rice University have developed a method for integrating neuroimaging scans to identify patients at high risk of continued seizures before the surgery takes place.

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Knightly named ACM Fellow
Monday, December 11, 2017
Edward Knightly, the Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and department chair at Rice University, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2017.
 

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