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Addressing the staggering power and energy demands of artificial intelligence, engineers at the University of Houston have developed a revolutionary new thin-film material that promises to make AI devices significantly faster…
Led by ChBE’s Karim, Cullen Engineers Making AI Faster, Reducing Power Consumption
Frank M Tiller Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Jacinta Conrad, PI, has received $259,749 in NSF funding for her proposal, Collaborative Research: Effect of Polymer…
ChBE’s Conrad Receives $250,000 for Polyelectrolyte Brush Investigation
In the rapidly evolving robotics industry, today’s robots that might appear humanlike and dexterous still can’t do what people do, lacking the ability to perform fine manipulation tasks required in factories, homes, hospitals and…
ChBE’s Karim Assists in Designing Robotic Hands for Use in Health, Agriculture, Manufacturing
From creating flexible gadgets to better medicines, the art of bending crystals is reshaping technology and health, and at the University of Houston a crystals expert makes it look almost like a magic trick. Jeffrey Rimer,…
Opening Doors to Smarter Devices and Safer Drugs, ChBE’s Rimer Controls Crystal Formation
A team of researchers from the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering has discovered and measured the fraction of an electron that…
UH, UMN Energy Researchers Discover the Part of an Electron that Drives Catalysis
A pair of University of Houston professors, known globally for their seminal contributions to crystal engineering with specific breakthroughs in the design of therapeutics to prevent crystallization in human diseases, are…
Cullen Professors First to Take Images of How Cholesterol Forms Crystals in the Body
William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering assistant professor Gül Zerze, Ph.D., has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for $500,000 for her proposal, “Unveiling the Dynamics of…
ChBE’s Zerze Earns NSF CAREER Award to Study Dynamics of Liquid-like Macromolecular Condensed Phases
A University of Houston-affiliated project that has the potential to transform sustainable fuel production was selected to receive $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Led by…
Cullen professors, alum revolutionizing tech to produce sustainable fuel
As the world races to combat environmental degradation and climate challenges, transitioning to renewable energy has become a top priority. However, the inconsistent nature of wind, solar and other renewable sources poses a…
Boosting Clean Energy with AI-Powered Catalysts and Microwave Plasma Technologies
A Nobel-winning Biologist, Two Engineering Schools, and a Vial of Houston Rainwater Cast New Light on the Origin of Life on Earth One of the major unanswered questions about the origin of life is how droplets of RNA floating…
Life From a Drop of Rain: New Research Suggests Rainwater Helped Form the First Protocell Walls
Team Develops Two Nasal Sprays — An Immune Activator and a New Vaccine — To Prevent Virus Transmission A team of researchers, led by the University of Houston, has discovered two new ways of preventing and treating respiratory…
University of Houston Researchers Create New Treatment and Vaccine for Flu and Various Coronaviruses
A team of cancer researchers, led by the University of Houston, has discovered a new subset of T cells that may improve the outcome for patients treated with T-cell therapies. T cell-based immunotherapy has tremendous value to…
Optimal Cancer-Killing T Cells Discovered by Cullen researchers
The University of Houston is part of a $10 million effort from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) to help address key opportunities for innovation in biopharmaceutical manufacturing…
UH Project Selected to Join $10M Effort to Innovate Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
In the quest for more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, a multi-university research team has reached a significant milestone in capacitor technology. Researchers from the University of Houston, Jackson State University…
Cullen Researchers Explore Sustainable Future with Innovative High-Energy-Density Capacitors
A professor from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering is part of a collaboration between researchers at three universities to redesign robotic hands to increase their dexterity…
ChBE's Karim co-PI on design research for robot hands
Remember that party where you were swinging glow sticks above your head or wearing them as necklaces? Fun times, right? Science times, too. Turns out those fun party favors are now being used by a University of Houston researcher…
Cullen Researcher Using Glow Sticks to Detect Biothreats for U.S. Navy
Welch Foundation Grant Propels New Plastics Project In today’s fast-paced world, convenience often comes packaged in plastic, from shopping bags to food containers, not to mention the seemingly endless supply of plastic water…
UH Research Team Awarded $4M to Convert Plastic Waste into Useful Materials
Jeffrey Rimer, Abraham E. Dukler Professor of Chemical Engineering, known globally for his seminal breakthroughs that control crystals to help treat malaria and kidney stones, has been awarded an inaugural $5 million Catalyst for…
Thanks to $5M grant, Rimer-led Welch Center for Advanced Bioactive Materials Crystallization Formed
Kidney stones are notorious for being one of the most painful ailments, but a researcher at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has received another grant to continue his group's research into using the…
Kidney stone treatment research by ChBE's Rimer leading to human trials
Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests. If you’ve taken an at-home COVID-19 or pregnancy test, then you’ve taken what is scientifically…
Enhancing At-Home COVID Tests with Glow-In-The Dark Materials