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Sodium-based Material Yields Stable Alternative to Lithium-ion Batteries
University of Texas at Austin researchers have created a new sodium-based battery material that is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a traditional lithium-ion battery and able to pave the way toward delivering more energy than current battery technologies.
Read more: Sodium-based Material Yields Stable Alternative to Lithium-ion Batteries
UT Battery Leaders Get Funding for Next-Generation Research
A research team from The University of Texas at Austin featuring battery luminaries John Goodenough and Arumugam Manthiram has secured a grant as part of the Battery500 consortium to continue their groundbreaking work.
Read more: UT Battery Leaders Get Funding for Next-Generation Research
MSE Graduate Students Jingang Li and Xiao Zhang Win MRS Awards
UT Materials Science and Engineering graduate student Jingang Li was awarded the Silver Materials Research Society Award, and Materials Science and Engineering graduate student Xiao Zhang was awarded Gold Materials Research Society Award.
Read more: MSE Graduate Students Jingang Li and Xiao Zhang Win MRS Awards
Texas Materials Institute Boasts Nine Highly Cited Researchers According to 2021 Web of Science Group
Texas Materials Institute is proud to announce that nine of our faculty have been named Highly Cited Researchers, according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list from the Web of Science Group and Clarivate.
Goodenough Materials Innovation Lectures
In honor of Nobel Laureate Goodenough, this lecture series aims to bring leading experimentalists and theorists engaged in the broad field of materials to illustrate the past and present of materials research, and thereby create a vision for future innovation in this space.
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Professor Guihua Yu Elected as 2022 MRS Fellow
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Professor Guihua Yu, has been elected for the 2022 Class of MRS Fellows by the Materials Research Society (MRS).
Keep readingMS&E Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2022
Two students from the Materials Science and Engineering graduate program were selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2022.
Keep readingProfessor Yuanyue Liu Wins Scialog Award
Yuanyue Liu, assistant professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the Scialog Award.
Keep readingGuihua Yu Receives Prestigious Hackerman Award for Innovative, Wide-Ranging Research in Nanotechnology
Cockrell School of Engineering professor Guihua Yu, a materials scientist and engineer in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and in UT’s Texas Materials Institute and Energy Institute, has received the 2022 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research from The Welch Foundation.
Keep readingUT Battery Leaders Get Funding for Next-Generation Research
A research team from The University of Texas at Austin featuring battery luminaries John Goodenough and Arumugam Manthiram has secured a grant as part of the Battery500 consortium to continue their groundbreaking work.
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