With the support of a new grant from the Department of Energy , Patrick Underhill, a professor of chemical and biological engineering, will examine polymer performance through the use of models and simulations.
Carbon capture technologies play a critical role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and factories, while harnessing carbon dioxide (CO2) for other energy production. With the support of a grant from the Department of Energy, Miao Yu, the Priti and Mukesh Chatter ’82 Career Development Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will develop a novel porous material capable of capturing even very small concentrations of CO2 in the air and collecting the gas for further use
Even as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic makes many aspects of the future uncertain, a generous gift will ensure that first-year students in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute continue to receive a hands-on education.
The third season of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast kicks off this week with a deep dive on a research project aimed at making self-disinfecting masks — an urgent need in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
With the support of a new grant from NASA, a team of engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will continue its study of amyloid fibril formation aboard the International Space Station.
Aida Ayuk, a third-year architecture student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, received a third-place honorable mention in the social impact category of the 2020 National Draper Competition for Women Entrepreneurs for her business plan and design proposal for BioFuture, a portable biomaterial digester for military waste.
Vincent Meunier, the head of the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named Editor-in-Chief of a Carbon Trends, a newly launched sister journal to Carbon, the premier research journal for carbon-related papers.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Sasha Wagner and Morgan Schaller, both assistant professors of earth and environmental sciences, are interested in constructing a clearer picture of how Western U.S. wildfire activity evolved throughout the Holocene, a period from about 11,650 years ago to today, and in bringing that historical perspective to modern wildfire regimes.
In research recently published in Nano Letters, a team of engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute continued to push the boundaries of material physics and performance by developing a new spectroscopy technique that allows researchers to examine particle interactions that before could not be measured.
Each year tens of millions of tons of plastic are sent to landfills, while another 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean. It’s an exponential problem that requires an environmentally friendly solution.