Researchers have determined that increased cognitive demands in the workplace can offset the mechanical advantages of wearing a low-back exoskeleton, a wearable device that is aimed to reduce or redistribute spine loading associated with heavy manual work.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Shankar Chellam has shown that a coagulation method that uses electricity instead of chemicals is effective at both removing nonenveloped viruses from untreated water and inactivating them, doubly protecting against infections.
Proposals from 18 U.S. university-led research teams from the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics, totaling $25.5 million, were selected as awardees for prototyping contracts by the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.
Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus will receive the Arthur K. Doolittle Award for her outstanding talk on flexible MXene coatings. This award will be presented by the American Chemical Society's Division of Polymetric Materials: Science and Engineering.
Dr. Cynthia Hipwell is leading a team to help advance technology that could give touch devices the ability to provide users with a richer experience by equipping the technology with the ability to mimic the feeling of physical objects.
Dr. Choongho Yu is working alongside his students to harness the thermal energy generated by body heat to power a small, self-sustaining electronic device capable of detecting fever in its wearer.
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon and his team $2.4 million as part of the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program to develop new computational techniques to reduce the size of data sets generated in scientific user facilities.
Dr. Taylor Ware and researchers in his lab are working with infrared reactive biomaterials to develop new solutions to treat urinary incontinence. By using a material called liquid crystal elastomers, the device would behave similarly to human tissue.
Dr. Adolfo Delgado is working to increase the technology readiness level of process fluid-lubricated bearings by developing and characterizing their performance — particularly in applications that use gas as the working fluid.
