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The Engstrom Research Group’s most recent publication, published online on November 9, and entitled “Area-selective atomic layer deposition enabled by competitive adsorption,” was selected as an Editor’s Pick for the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A. This manuscript appeared as part of a Special Topic Collection on Area Selective Deposition, and the authors were Taewon Suh, Yan Yang, Hae Won Sohn, Robert A. DiStasio Jr., and James R. Engstrom. This work was a collaboration between the Engstrom and DiStasio Groups and involved the use of both experiments and calculations to demonstrate... Read more

Five Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Read more

A Cornell project funded by two separate three-year grants will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome and how roots grow. Read more

The company, co-founded by Robert S. Langer, CHEME ’70 in 2010, is a drug development biotechnology company most noted for its work on novel mRNA technology. Langer currently sits on the company’s board of directors. Read more

Years before the novel coronavirus turned into a global pandemic, Susan Daniel was already looking for ways to defeat it. Daniel, a professor in Cornell’s Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, had created models of the host membrane to gain new insights into the virus SARS-CoV. Now referred to informally as SARS-CoV-1, the virus is a precursor and close relative of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 or SARS 2. Read more

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An NC State research group has teamed up with Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Cornell, who is an expert in advanced machine learning and AI techniques. Read more

A highlight of AVANGRID’s Innovation Forum is its annual Innovation Challenge, which pairs teams of students from Cornell, Harvard, the University of Maine, MIT and Yale with AVANGRID employees to develop solutions to some of the energy sector’s most difficult challenges. This year’s winning team, led by Cornell University students Anmol Singh, Ritika Jain and Rashika Mittal, proposed an innovative way to enable utilities to leverage ever-increasing electric vehicle adoption to benefit the grid through vehicle-to-grid technology. Students on the winning team will receive a total of $30,000 in... Read more

Engineers from Cornell and North Carolina State University have proposed a creative solution: an army of swimming, self-propelled biomaterials called ‘microcleaners’ that scavenge and capture plastics so they can be decomposed by computationally-engineered microorganisms. Read more

Scientists hoping to understand these diseases can take heart: Researchers led by Nicholas Abbott, a Tisch University Professor in the Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, created a way of using synthetic liquid crystals to squeeze red blood cells and gain new insight into individual cells’ mechanical properties. The process also illuminates minuscule differences between cells within a large population as each cell reacts to the same strain or force, revealing just how diverse the cells are. Read more