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Arumugam Manthiram talks AI and Energy Storage in New National Academy of Engineering Article
Dr. Arumugam Manthiram, a professor in Mechanical Engineering and affiliate of Texas Materials Institute, along with Tianxing Lai, a graduate researcher in his lab, have recently published an article in The Bridge about the role artificial intelligence (AI) can play in discovering new materials and battery chemistries for the future.
TMI Affiliate Publishes on Cost-Effective Way to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Dr. Vaibhav Bahadur, an affiliate member of the Texas Materials Institute, has recently published in the Chemical Engineering Journal on a practical and cost-effective way to sequester CO₂ on the seabed. Bahadur, along with his co-authors Mark Hamalian and Karey Maynor, have studied a new method for carbon storage that uses tiny bubbles of CO₂ to form hydrates instead of simply injecting the carbon into underground reservoirs, as is currently done.
MS&E Students Lead Paper on Accurately Predicting How Charged Defects Scatter Electrons
Defects are unavoidable in real materials and can strongly influence properties such as electrical conductivity and electron dynamics. Until now, researchers had to rely on rough approximations to describe the scattering of charged defects, which limits the understanding and predictions of materials’ properties. Yuanyue Liu’s group at TMI of UT Austin recently developed a new way to accurately predict how charged defects in crystals scatter electrons.
MSE Students are Finalists in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Weixin Guan and Yaxuan Zhao, Materials Science & Engineering graduate students with the Texas Materials Institute, have been named one of the five finalist teams in the 2025 Collegiate Inventor Competition. Both students of Dr. Guihua Yu, the team invented AirGel, a cost-effective, water-harvesting device made from hydrogels that pulls water vapor from the air like a sponge.
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Manthiram Receives Honors for Contributions to Materials Research
Professor Arumugam Manthiram has recently received several prestigious recognitions highlighting his impact at the intersection of materials science and artificial intelligence.
Can ToF‑SIMS deliver standardless quantitative analysis when reference materials aren’t available?
Mangolini’s group has pioneered the first demonstration of absolute hydrogen quantification in polymers using ToF‑SIMS, without standards or sensitivity factors. The approach, called the Full Spectrum Method (FSM), moves beyond relying on a handful of “marker” secondary-ion fragments. Instead, FSM sums the intensities of all detected secondary ions that contain the element(s) of interest, helping to reduce matrix effects that can distort absolute quantification.
Alumni & Current Students of MS&E Program Lead on Collaborative Paper Showcasing New Way to Enhance Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Materials Science & Engineering alum Shanmukh Kutagulla and current student Patrick Carmichael are the lead authors on a new collaborative paper, out in ACS Nano, that presents a novel solution to problems that plague hydrogen fuel cells. Commonly used as an alternative to fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel cells currently have issues with hydrogen "leaking" through the membrane, lowering the efficiency and performance.
Latest Progress from Guihua Yu's Group Highlights Improving the Stability of Aqueous Batteries
Materials Science & Engineering graduate student Tianrui (Terry) Zheng, along with postdoctoral researcher Zhengyu Ju under the direction of Dr. Guihua Yu, have published a paper that focuses on improving the stability of aqueous batteries in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Also contributing to the paper were Dr. Amy Marschilok, Dr. Esther Takeuchi and Dr. Kenneth Takeuchi from Stony Brook University.
Guihua Yu Awarded Grand Discovery Prize from Global Prize for Innovation in Water
Continental water-stress may soon meet its match, thanks to breakthrough work from the University of Texas at Austin scientist and engineer, Professor Guihua Yu of the Cockrell School of Engineering, who has just received the top honor — the Grand Discovery Prize — at the 2025 Global Prize for Innovation in Water (GPIW) in Saudi Arabia, in recognition of his pioneering hydrogels-based solar water technologies. (Business Wire)
