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October 2015

2015 Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award

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Christopher Ioerger

Sponge-Like Material Performs CCS and CO2 Catalysis

October
2015
Strategies to mitigate CO 2 emissions are becoming increasingly important. Engineers and scientists are pursuing a variety of approaches, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), as well as ways to convert CO 2 into high-value chemicals...

Nonstick Surface Goes Toe-to-Toe With Nature

October
2015
A new nonstick surface developed by researchers at the Pennsylvania State Univ. could improve condensation-based heat transfer for power-plant heat exchangers, enable more-efficient water harvesting in arid areas, and prevent the formation of ice...

Nanoparticles Evade the Body’s Immune System

October
2015
Tiny capsules loaded with drugs zip through the body until they find their target and then release their cargo to the injured site. Such drug-delivery systems would allow for more effective and safer treatment of a range of medical conditions by...

Engineers Turn OPVs Upside Down

October
2015
The advent of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) brought with it the potential for low-cost, flexible solar power, with applications ranging from rollable electronic displays to building façades. That promise eventually faded as the efficiency of the...

Creating a Community of Co-Dependent Microbes

October
2015
Synthetic biology — an emerging field that attempts to completely reengineer biological organisms — has focused mainly on creating genetic circuits to control individual organisms. As the field progresses toward more-complex organisms to address...

Cells Snap Together to Form Organoids

October
2015
Creating tiny human organs could be as easy as building structures from toy blocks, thanks to a process developed by scientists at the Univ. of California, San Francisco. The new technique produces organoids, miniature models of human tissues grown...
October
2015

Guidelines for Defining Process Safety Competency Requirements

October, 2015
This Guideline presents the framework of process safety knowledge and expertise versus the desired competency level in a “super-matrix” format, vertically and diagonally. The matrix references for potential remedies/required training may be tailored to a company’s internally...
The Congressional Research Service provides objective, nonpartisan analyses that enable Senators and Representatives to make informed public policy decisions. The public policy world these days is filled with biased, distorted, or just plain...
October
2015