Tim white at the conference with his award

White brings hard science to International Soft Matter Conference

Aug. 5, 2019

Presenting his findings from “Pixelated Polymers: Programming Function into Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks and Elastomers,” Gallogy Professor Tim White spoke before the researchers and scientists gathered for the International Soft Matter Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June.

Micro-Indentation and Visualization system

Soft material study could improve medical devices, other applications

Aug. 5, 2019

Researchers at Ҵýƽ have developed a new technique that can study friction between soft materials like those inside the body, paving the way for improvements to medical devices used by millions each year.

Wil Srubar and a student

9News video: Bacteria that grow into bricks being researched at Ҵýƽ

July 15, 2019

IRT member Wil Srubar’s lab was recently profiled.

Researchers standing in a hall way.

Collaborative research charts course to hundreds of new nitrides

July 1, 2019

A groundbreaking research effort involving scientists at NREL and other partner institutions around the country recently published “A Map of the Inorganic Ternary Metal Nitrides,” which appears in Nature Materials.

A student holding a drone in the field

The air up there: CU team deploys multiple drones in tornado study

July 1, 2019

Project TORUS–or Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells–is a two-year partnership including several IRT members.

Endoculus flips on its lights in front of a medical training device meant to mimic a human colon

A robot may one day perform your colonoscopy

May 28, 2019

The researchers, led by engineer Mark Rentschler, are using a robot that can navigate the squishy and often-unpredictable terrain of the intestine.

Wil Srubar and a student talking in the lab

Podcast interview with Wil Srubar

May 28, 2019

Wil Srubar is an assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering here at C.U. Guided by the tenets of industrial ecology, his team's collective vision is to engineer next-generation infrastructure materials by blurring the boundaries between the built environment and the natural world. Materials of current interest include biodegradable polymers, phase-change materials, recycled aggregate concrete, and natural-fiber composites for green building applications.

Ҵýƽ's campus from the air

Ҵýƽ gets new state-of-the-art imaging system

May 17, 2019

The ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa is an X-ray microtomography imaging system — essentially an X-ray microscope, according to Wil Srubar, an assistant professor who was part of the team that won a grant to buy the machine.

Sunflower in a sunflower field

Do plants have social networks?

May 15, 2019

Research being led by Ҵýƽ Assistant Professor Orit Peleg is studying social systems in sunflowers through an award from the Human Frontier Science Program.

Wil Srubar and students working in the lab

'Frankenstein' materials could revolutionize building construction

May 1, 2019

Wil Srubar’s lab at Ҵýƽ is leading a $1.9 million DARPA project titled Programmable Resurrection of Materials Engineered to Heal Exponentially Using Switches.

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