Research Highlights
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kalinin Collaboration Moves Microscopy into the Automated Fast Lane
Sergei Kalinin and collaborators at UT and ORNL earned an R&D100 Award for developing autonomous processes for microscopy that can impact research methods in multiple disciplines.
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Gilbert Team Discovery Puts a Magnetic Spin on Neuromorphic Computing
The word “fractals” might inspire images of psychedelic colors spiraling into infinity in a computer animation. An invisible, but powerful and useful, version of this phenomenon exists in the realm of dynamic magnetic fractal networks. Dustin Gilbert, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and colleagues have published new findings in the…
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Innovators in Nuclear Engineering Receive Federal Accolades, Project Support
The US Department of Energy announced support for a PhD student and five faculty with innovative projects to improve nuclear power plant design and safety.