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2018

Two printed silver nanowire patterns, horseshoe and Peano curve, with high resolution.

Feb 26, 2018

New technique allows printing of flexible, stretchable silver nanowire circuits

New technique prints silver nanowire circuits on flexible, stretchable substrates. 

NC State Belltower

Feb 23, 2018

Grace receives NSF CAREER Award

Dr. Landon Grace, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University, has received the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program award. Known as the NSF CAREER Award, it is one of the most prestigious awards for early-career researchers. 

Dr. Katie Stolee

Feb 22, 2018

Stolee wins NSF CAREER Award

Dr. Kathryn Stolee, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, known as the NSF CAREER Award, is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young faculty members in science and engineering. 

WISE Students

Feb 22, 2018

It takes a village

Go inside NC State’s WISE Village, a living and learning community for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 

Atomic resolution image illustrating the chemical distribution in PMN. Due to mass contrast, columns of atoms rich in Mg (blue markers) can be discriminated from columns rich in Nb (green markers). Image credit: James LeBeau.

Feb 21, 2018

Atomic structure of ultrasound material not what anyone expected

Researchers have gotten a glimpse at how atoms are arranged in a widely-used material – and it’s not what anyone expected. 

(left to right) Allen Zheng (Ph.D., 2002), Christopher Frey and Joshua Fu (Ph.D., 2000)

Feb 20, 2018

Frey’s collaborations with former Ph.D. students lead to international air quality solutions

Dr. H. Christopher Frey, the Glenn E. Futrell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at NC State, continues to collaborate on air quality research and education with several of his former Ph.D. students. Most recently this was evidenced at the Fifth International Symposium on Regional Air Quality Management in Rapidly Developing Economic Regions (5RAQM), held in Guangzhou, China, in November. 

Diagram of the microsphere-packed, tubular reactor used in the new "pseudo-homogeneous" catalysis technique.

Feb 14, 2018

‘Green’ catalysis technique aims to boost pharmaceutical manufacturing efficiency

NC State researchers have developed a green chemistry method to improve efficiency in pharmaceutical manufacturing. 

Bryant, Weisler and Stewart (from left to right), with a prototype of the EagleRay.

Feb 14, 2018

What do you get when you cross an airplane with a submarine?

The EagleRay is the first unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft capable of traveling through the air and underwater – transitioning repeatedly between sky and sea. 

researcher in lab

Feb 14, 2018

Training international scientists in Australia

Materials science and engineering professor Jacob Jones has worked to bring international research experiences to NC State students based on his own transformative experience as a postdoc working at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia.   “When I […]