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Toyota Research Institute and Northwestern partner to accelerate new materials discovery with nanomaterial data factory; fuel cell catalysts first

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Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Northwestern University are collaborating to help accelerate new materials discovery, design and development with the world’s first nanomaterial “data factory.”. —Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Earlier post.).

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Northwestern team develops new approach to catalyst design using SPBCL and DFT; new HER catalyst 7x more active than Pt

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Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new approach for creating new catalysts to aid in clean energy conversion and storage. It is a major challenge in catalysis to uncover structure–performance relationships that drive the design and optimization of high-performance/low-cost catalysts. —Professor Chad A.

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Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40

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By Adam Hung, Uksang Yoo, Jonathan Francis, Jean Oh, and Jeffrey Ichnowski from CMU Robotics Insittute [ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ] Suction-based robotic grippers are common in industrial applications due to their simplicity and robustness, but [they] struggle with geometric complexity. Kowalewski, Chad C.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design Chung-Kuan Cheng et al. In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. In research published in Nature in 2021, Google claimed it beat top academic algorithms and human chip designers at finding the optimal layouts.

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Wisconsin, GLBRC researchers use chemical genomics to engineer IL-resistant yeast to improve biofuel production

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and colleagues have engineered a new strain of the yeast S. The technique of chemical genomics-guided bio-design is novel, and rich in potential for future applications. —Dickinson et al. Myers, Charles Boone, Joshua J.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. All people learn how to type on existing keyboards, so even a superior keyboard design can never gain a foothold. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Jonathan Weiss/Alamy.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Doctors at UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have developed a new method that uses three distinct, relatively new, technologies, whole genome sequencing surveillance, and machine learning, and electronic health records to identify undetected outbreaks and their transmission routes. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch.