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Moving from the visible to the infrared: developing high quality nanocrystals

Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, quantum dots have a wide variety of applications ranging from displays and LED lights to chemical reaction catalysis and bioimaging. These semiconductor nanocrystals are so small—on the order of...
10-Jul-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Simulating blood flow dynamics for improved nanoparticle drug delivery

Despite gaining a bad rap in mainstream media in recent years, nanoparticles have been successfully used for decades in targeted drug delivery systems. Drug molecules can be encapsulated within biodegradable nanoparticles to be delivered to specific...
9-Jul-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Researchers use machine learning to detect defects in manufacturing

The algorithm was able to correctly identify hundreds of defects in real physical parts that have not previously been seen by the deep learning model.
4-Jun-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Researchers debut novel manifold design theory

University of Illinois researcher Kyle Smith, along with doctoral students Md Habibur Rahman and Vu Do, master’s student Colby Warden, and recent graduate Irwin Loud IV (MSME 2023), have published their new manifold design theory (patent pending)...
4-Jun-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Grainger Engineering launches USDOT funded NURail Center, celebrates 'the future of rail transport in this country'

Official ribbon-cutting attended by federal and state dignitaries, including Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Amit Bose, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois Representative Nikki Budzinski, Illinois Department of Transportation...
31-May-2024 1:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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New $3 million CERL grant to enable solid-state lithium battery technology

A team of Grainger Engineering researchers aim to create the underpinning science and technology required to enable solid-state rechargeable lithium batteries through a grant from the US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research...
28-May-2024 11:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Grainger engineers bring quantum expertise to DOE InterQnet initiative

InterQnet is a three-year initiative to demonstrate that quantum computers separated by large distances and even based on different hardware architectures can work in tandem.
24-May-2024 3:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Information and Intelligence group announces participation in Department of Commerce Consortium dedicated to AI Safety

The Information and Intelligence Group within The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is one of more than 200 leading AI stakeholders to help advance the development and deployment of safe, trustworthy AI...
15-May-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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