Artificial bone implants require a unique combination of properties. They must be non-toxic, resistant to corrosion, easily machined, biocompatible, and have low density. With these properties in mind...
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The element fluorine has acquired an ever-increasing prevalence in synthetic drugs and agrochemicals due to its positive impact on the metabolism, chemical stability, and modulating lipophilicity of a...
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Materials engineering for synthetic vascular grafts to repair damaged or diseased blood vessels is driven by biomimetic innovations that improve biocompatibility and flexibility. A significant challen...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new method to produce cementitious materials from low-cost limestone filters without pyro-processing. The method involves coating limestone particles with fine ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a high-precision Autonomous Material Synthesis System (AMSS) that can produce a large number of metal alloy samples with varying compositions in a short time and ...
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Difructose anhydride (DFA), which can serve as a low-calorie sweetener, has demonstrated health benefits, including prebiotic effects, antioxidant properties and immunoregulatory effects. While DFA ca...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a post-ALD in-situ water treatment procedure that removes residual Cl ligands from amorphous TiO2 films and thereby extends the photoelectrochemical cell’s prot...
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A recent IBISWorld report assessed that the services of electroplating, plating, polishing, anodizing, and coloring of metals accounted for almost one third of the US metal treating market, which they...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new approach to creating piezoelectric biomaterial thin films based on γ glycine crystals. The flexible piezoelectric glycine thin films were synthesized at th...
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UW researchers have designed and synthesized a series of cathode materials for aqueous redox flow batteries by dimerization of TEMPO into ionic structures. TEMPO radicals have high voltage but are too...
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Composite materials are used in the aerospace, automotive, marine and defense industries because of their enhanced specific mechanical properties and functionality. One category of composite materials...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a nacre-mimetic ferroelectric metamaterial with exceptional piezoelectricity and fracture toughness. Ferroelectric (e.g. poly(vinylidene fluoride)-co-hexafluoropr...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel approach to effectively wet, incorporate and disperse ceramic nanoparticles into molten metal. The technique is based on rapidly heating the melt to induc...
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UW researchers have developed a sustainable viologen redox species synthesized from a common industrial organic species, 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl trimethylammonium chloride. Also known as Dextrosil, t...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an improved electrochemical valorization strategy that leverages an electrocatalyst capable of carrying out two-electron oxygen reduction reactions (2e- ORR). The...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method to synthesize organocatalysts that can be engineered to mimic biological enzymes for use in a variety of industrially relevant chemical reactions. The or...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel profluorophore that binds to lithium ions with high specificity, inducing a fluorescent signal. The fluorescent indicator can be seamlessly integrated int...
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Zinc oxide graphene composite materials have significant interest commercially as they have been demonstrated effective for use in sensors and capacitors. They can act as transparent conductive thin-f...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a class of extremely robust yet inexpensive ion exchange membranes based on glassy organic frameworks. These membranes have shown promising performance for redox ...
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UW-Madison researchers have designed and fabricated architected vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) foams with synergistic improvements in specific elastic modulus, specific energy absorption, ...
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UW-Madison researchers from the department of chemistry have developed a synthetic route for producing tertiary β-hydroxy-α-amino acids. Their approach utilizes a pyridoxal-phosphate (PLP)-dependent...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an alloy of chromium, molybdenum and aluminum that has shown survivability up to 1600 degrees C, as well as over exposure times of 120 hours through multiple ther...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an amino acid-based piezoelectric biocrystal thin film that offers tissue-compatible omnidirectional stretchability with unimpaired piezoelectricity. The stretcha...
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The need for corrosion-resistant materials is present throughout automotive, aerospace, and electronics manufacturing as well as many other metal and polymer manufacturing industries. Electrodepositio...
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UW-Madison researchers developed SLIPS fabricated from building blocks that are biodegradable, edible, or generally regarded as safe (GRAS). These materials are based on nanofiber-based mats/meshes ge...
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