UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials Rigoerto Advincula discussed recent accomplishments around quantum dots and how they affect daily lives.
Quantum Dots Light Up the Way to a Brighter World
Several From College Make World’s Top-Cited Scientists Lists
More than 70 college faculty and researchers made this year’s list of the world’s top 2 percent of most cited scientists in their fields.
Five TCE Scientists Ranked as Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers
Five researchers from the Tickle College of Engineering appeared on Clarivate’s 2023 High Cited Researchers list.
Reimagining the Urban Jungle
To battle urban heat islands, 2023 DARPA Young Faculty Award winner Nick Zhou is developing PhantoM—a bioreceptive material that could turn skyscrapers into gardens.
Making AI Sleep More Like Humans
Professor Garrett Rose is part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers that was awarded a grant to study the gap between human brain processing efficiency and the limitations of current artificial intelligence models.
UT Team Awarded Grant to Increase Tree Canopy, Reduce Stormwater Runoff
Jon Hathaway is leading a team from UT to help expand Knoxville’s tree canopy and reduce stormwater runoff to underserved communities in East Knoxville.
Nuclear Engineering Department Head Wes Hines to Retire
Postelle Professor, Chancellor’s Professor, and Department of Nuclear Engineering Department Head Wes Hines is set to retire at the end of next year.
Porous Steel May Be the Secret to Impact Resistance
Suresh Babu and UT alum Kevin Lamb have discovered that the pores in additively manufactured steel, long considered a nuisance, can actually make components better in some configurations.
Trinh Lab’s New Yeast Strain Upcycles Stubborn Plastics
Professor Trinh has helped develop a yeast strain that can upcycle polyolefin plastic, a major pollutant, into useful biochemicals and biodegradable plastics.
TIBML’s Hattar Oversees Microscopy Advance Through International Connections
Associate Professor Khalid Hattar, director of the Tennessee Ion Beam Laboratory, coordinated work with international teams to install a first-ever advanced lens for an electron microspore at Sandia National Laboratories.