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Dean Sharon Walker has published a paper, "Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic" in Nature Sustainability. The research is part of a major collaboration of international scholars looking at the systems needed to monitor COVID-19 presence in wastewater.
Wei-Heng Shih (MSE) and Co-PI Wan Y. Shih (Biomed) recieved a two-year National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for “Development of Aqueous Suspensions of Organohalide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Bioimaging.” This project will develop a stable suspension of photoluminescent nanocrystals that are much brighter than currently used dye molecules. The nanocrystals will be linked to antibodies and used to image cancer cells specifically.
Assistant professor Yaghoob (Amir) Farnam (CAEE) and co-PIs Caroline Schauer (MSE), Christopher Sales (CAEE), and Ahmad Najafi (MEM) obtained a NSF-funded project, “Engineering Bioinspired Multifunctional Microbial Polymeric Fiber (BioFiber) for Concrete Self-Healing.” This research will investigate a new self-healing concrete enriched with bioinspired multifunctional microbial polymeric fibers to improve durability and resilience of civil infrastructure.
Professor Nagarajan Kandasamy (ECE) and co-PI Anup Das (ECE) have received funding for “CNS Core: Small: Online Performance Monitoring of Neuromorphic Services” from the NSF. Machine learning applications that are implemented via spiking neural networks (SNNs) can be executed using very little energy on a new type of computer architecture called neuromorphic processors. These mimic the structure and operation of biological neurons and synapses in the brain and are especially suitable for executing SNNs computations guided by the location and frequency of spikes occurring in the network. Techniques will be developed to check the accuracy of results.
Distinguished University and Bach Professor Yury Gogotsi (MSE) and Co-PI Dr. Meera Nair Harhay of the College of Medicine received a NSF-funded grant “EAGER: MXene Sorbents for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy.” The limitations of the current state-of-the-art dialysis treatment methods, especially in light of shortages of the specialized fluid dialysate due to COVID-19, has led to this investigation and design of potential alternatives using novel toxin-removing (sorbent) materials. The goal is to reduce the amount of fluid necessary for dialysis and advance progress towards in-home or wearable dialysis therapies.
Department Head and Professor Steve May (MSE) was awarded a grant “Uniting Lithographic Patterning and Topochemical Reaction for Processing of Functional Oxides for Electronic Applications” from the NSF. Research will focus on a new nanomanufacturing process to fabricate novel patterned materials, thereby generating fundamental innovations in advanced manufacturing and advancing the nation’s technological capabilities.
Josh Snyder (CBE) and Michael Waring (CAEE) earned 2020 Faculty Scholarly Materials and Equipment Awards and Ahmad Najafi (MEM) and James Lo (CAEE) earned 2020 Faculty Summer Research Awards for Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty from the Office of Research and Innovation.
