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- Borneo Stalagmites Provide New View of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years June 6, 2013 — A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to abrupt climate change events. The 100,000-year climate record adds to data on past climate events, and may help scientists assess models designed to predict how the Earth’s climate will respond in the future.
- Soft Matter Offers Ways to Study Arrangement of Ordered Materials in Non-spherical Spaces May 21, 2013 — A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.
- IRI Intros: 5 Questions with Tim Lieuwen April 29, 2013 — You’ve probably heard that Georgia Tech has a number of Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) – but do you know much about them? This article is part of a series of Q&As to introduce the Tech community to the eight IRIs and their faculty leaders. In this installment, Executive Director Tim Lieuwen answers questions about the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute.
- Wireless "Smart Skin" Sensors Could Provide Remote Monitoring of Infrastructure April 16, 2013 — Researchers are developing a novel technology that would facilitate close monitoring of bridges, parking decks and other structures for early signs of strain, stress and formation of cracks. Their approach uses wireless sensors that are low cost, require no power, and can be implemented on tough yet flexible polymer substrates.
- Surface Diffusion Plays a Key Role in Defining the Shapes of Catalytic Nanoparticles April 9, 2013 — Controlling the shapes of nanometer-sized catalytic and electrocatalytic particles made from noble metals such as platinum and palladium may be more complicated than previously thought.
- Trees Used to Create Recyclable, Efficient Solar Cell March 25, 2013 — Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees. Just as importantly, by fabricating them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates, the solar cells can be quickly recycled in water at the end of their lifecycle.
- Azad Naeemi Wins NSF CAREER Award March 18, 2013 — ECE Assistant Professor Azad Naeemi has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled "Physical Models and Experimental Validation for High-Frequency Multilayer Graphene Interconnects."
- Georgia Tech Tools Enable Groundbreaking Gas Research March 1, 2013 — Scientists are now better able to examine rare methane gas samples recovered from deep beneath the seafloor using innovative tools developed by Georgia Tech.
- Neutron Scattering Technique Provides New Data on Adsorption of Ions in Microporous Materials February 27, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated the use of a technique known as small angle neutron scattering (SANS) to study the effects of ions moving into nanoscale pores. The study is believed to be the first application of the SANS technique for studying ion surface adsorption in-situ.
- Pollution Doesn’t Change the Rate of Cloud Droplet Formation, Study Shows February 18, 2013 — When it comes to forming the droplets that make up clouds, a little oily and viscous organic material apparently doesn’t matter that much. And that’s good news for reducing the uncertainty of climate model predictions.
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