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Magnetic Materials Breakthroughs: Jian-Ping Wang

What do disease early detection, rare-earth-free magnets and massive information storage and processing all have in common? Magnetic materials could be instrumental in a new wave of solutions in these areas. Distinguished McKnight Professor Jian-Ping Wang is experimenting with magnetic materials for these innovations and more.

Spotlight on Biocatalysis & Biotechnology

Review a sampling of many recent innovations by IPrime's Biocatalysis and Biotechnology (BB) program faculty.

Design of Medical Devices Conference

The Medical Devices Center (MDC) will hold its Design of Medical Devices Conference on April 8-11, 2013. Several IPrime faculty will present program lectures and representatives will participate in the exhibit session. Registration is now open.

Architecting Nanoscale Lattices

IPrime faculty Michael Tsapatsis and his colleagues have engineered nanoscale lattices that can save money and energy in industrial processes. The lattice pores come in different sizes in order to separate mixes of chemicals, and contain pores that act like a molecular sieve, allowing only molecules below a certain size--or even just certain forms of the same molecule--to pass.
Full article: UMN News

Renewable Energy Within Reach

CEMS Professor and IPrime faculty Russell Holmes and his research team have developed a new approach exciton diffusion at the nanoscale in organic semiconductors. Read details in CEMS News and Nature.

Revolutionary Membrane Tech Research

The University of MN has been awarded a $1.8 million grant over three years from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop revolutionary membrane technology that will enable energy-efficient separations in the chemical, petrochemical, water, fossil fuel, and renewable energy industries. Researchers include IPrime's Michael Tsapatsis and Chris Macosko (CEMS News). Full article: UMN News

MH's Wentzcovitch Named AAAS Fellow

Professor Renata M.M. Wentzcovitch, faculty of IPrime's Magnetic Heterostructures program, has been awarded the honor of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is the world's largest general scientific society. Read more in CEMS News.