News & Highlights

News & Highlights

II-VI Foundation Award

II-VI Foundation Award

Chaoying Ni, professor of materials science and engineering, has been awarded a grant from the II-VI Foundation to investigate “Thermal Transport in SiC and Diamond Based Composites.” The one-year $95,000 award will support experimental and computational work aimed at...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Twelve UD students, alumni win prestigious research support A dozen University of Delaware students (undergraduate and graduate) and alumni have won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships as the prestigious competition marks its 65th year. Fourteen...

Talent Article

Talent Article

Epps team highlights work on tuning block polymers for nanostructured systems High-performance materials are enabling major advances in a wide range of applications from energy generation and digital information storage to disease screening and medical devices. Block...

Materials Breakthrough

Materials Breakthrough

New approach to improving materials for interfacing neural tissue with electronic biomedical devices reported Modern electronic biomedical devices are enabling a wide range of sophisticated health interventions, from seizure detection and Parkinson’s disease therapy...

Defects That Matter

Defects That Matter

NSF Career Award to support development of computational models of defects in complex materials The University of Delaware’s Anderson Janotti has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to develop computational models of defects in...