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Hypothermal Opto-Thermophoretic Tweezers by Zheng Lab
In their new Nature Communications paper entitled “Hypothermal Opto-Thermophoretic Tweezers” (HOTTs), Professor Yuebing Zheng and his students (Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara – leading author, Jingang Li, Zhihan Chen, Hongru Ding, Youngsun Kim, Suichu Huang) along with collaborators (Xiuying Li and Professor Zhenpeng Qi) have achieved low-power trapping of diverse colloids and biological cells in their native fluids.
TMI Welcomes a New, Cutting Edge Ion Microscope
In 2022 Texas Materials Institute (TMI) has purchased a new, state-of-the-art time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS), an outstanding addition to the analytical capabilities at TMI. The new ion microscope (ionTOF M6, Fig. 1) has been installed in June 2023 in the Engineering Education and Research Center (EER), located in the main campus at UT Austin, and it is available to all users since July 2023.
'3D Electrokinetic Tweezers' Enables New Level of Control of Tiny Particles
Microscopically small particles are very challenging to move around. So much so that the breakthrough technology for doing that won the Nobel Prize more than 25 years ago.
UT News: Water-Purifying Cup Makes Drinkable Water From Creeks and Streams
A rash of storms in Texas in recent years — from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to the deep freeze in 2021 — has put big chunks of the population in danger and left millions without electricity or water for long periods.
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Texas Materials Seminar Series
The Texas Materials Seminar Series features MSE 397 Seminars, TMI Distinguished Lectureships, and TMI Special Seminars, where leading faculty and professionals from around the world share cutting-edge innovations and advancements in materials engineering with our students.
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Professor Arumugam Manthiram received the Faraday Medal Award
Professor Arumugam Manthiram received the Faraday Medal Award from the Society for Advancement of Electrochemical Science and Technology (SAEST), India.
Koo Research Group Presents at AIAA SciTech 2025 Conference
Three graduate students from the Koo Research Group presented five papers at the AIAA SciTech Conference in Orlando, Florida. Topics included advanced aerospace materials like carbon/UHTR and quartz/UHTR ablatives, microstructural analysis, and photogrammetry methods. The students, along with their advisor Dr. Joseph H. Koo, showcased their research to over 6,000 attendees.
A New Structure for Single Atom Catalysis
A recent study by Dr. Yuanyue Liu and his team, published in The American Chemical Society (ACS), has revealed a previously overlooked catalytic site in M–N–C materials, which are vital for energy conversion reactions like the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Traditionally, M–N–C catalysts feature pyridinic sites as the primary active sites.
Dr. Yuebing Zheng Elected Fellow of SPIE
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is proud to announce that Dr. Yuebing Zheng has been elected to the prestigious grade of Fellow of SPIE, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of optics and photonics.
Advancements in Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries
Dr. David Mitlin and Dr. Donald Siegel, along with their colleagues in the Department of Energy’s MUSIC Energy Frontier Research Center, recently published a perspective article in Nature Materials on "Electro-Chemo-Mechanics of Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries."
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