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Discovery to Impact, on office at the University of Texas, serves as the "bridge between campus innovators, industry, and the investment community" and help to foster "commercial collaborations that transition academic research into products, services, and solutions" for faculty research and discoveries. TMI facilites and Core and Affiliated faculty can be found throughout the pages of their 2025 Annual Report.
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Professor Bahadur’s research group has published two papers, both posted on ScienceDirect, addressing important challenges in carbon management and electrical materials.
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Allan H. MacDonald, a University of Texas at Austin physicist, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in basic sciences for his work that has enabled scientists to transform and control extraordinary phenomena linked to new materials.
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Professor Arumugam Manthiram has recently received several prestigious recognitions highlighting his impact at the intersection of materials science and artificial intelligence.
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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.
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Two alumni of the Materials Science & Engineering program, from TMI director Jamie Warner's group, have published articles that introduce new techniques for analyzing materials using electron microscopy. Kevin Matthews's paper used cryogenics and ion beam milling to study full liquid-electrolyte batteries, while Matthew Coupin used a combination of nanoscale 2D electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and 3D scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to better study polymer desalination membranes.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Materials Science & Engineering graduate student Wenlong Li, along with Mechanical Engineering graduate students Ayrton Yanyachi and Junyi Xia and under the direction of Dr. Yijin Liu, have published a collaborative paper that focuses on the charging protocols used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles. Also contributing to the paper were former MS&E student Dr. Yixian Wang, TMI-affiliate David Mitlin, and Mechanical Engineering professors Ofodike Ezekoye and Junmin Wang.
