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Talented 12: Chemical & Engineering News announces its 2022 rising stars in chemistry
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), an independent news outlet of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has unveiled its annual “Talented 12” list. ... Below is the list of 2022’s Talented 12 class. Adeyemi Adeleye, Ph.D., [assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at the] University of California, Irvine. This environmental chemist develops nanomaterials to save contaminated soil and water. Read More
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The hope and hype of hydrogen
“Over time, as the infrastructure gets built out everywhere, we will see a huge private investment in the production of hydrogen and the delivery of hydrogen in these cheaper ways,” said Jack Brouwer, a professor of engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and the director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center [advanced power and energy program]. … “Someday, renewable, clean hydrogen will be cheaper than what we are paying today for gasoline,” Brouwer said.
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This uncrushable beetle withstands 39,000 times of its weight
The team, led by David Kisailus, used microscopy, spectroscopy, and mechanical testing to identify what is hidden beneath this unique exoskeleton. And researchers' plan was to find out if the exoskeleton had the potential to be mixed with different materials, such as plastics and metal. They produced joints out of metal and composites based on the ones they observed in the beetle.
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This map shows which parts of San Francisco are most at risk of flooding
Brett Sanders, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UC Irvine who specializes in creating flood assessments, said rainfall in San Francisco over New Year’s Eve was “an extreme event that probably approaches a 50-to-100 year event or more.” … “The combined effects of a really wet storm with aging infrastructure and with changing land use — collectively, all those three factors led to intense flooding across the region,” Sanders said.
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The real renewable energy storage solution
Jack Brouwer is the director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at UC Irvine writes, “Right here at UC Irvine, we’re doing a little science experiment that could make a big difference for countries around the globe as they look for ways to replace fossil fuels and stop climate change. This experiment is focused on how to store extra solar energy.” [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
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The secrets of the diabolical ironclad beetle’s almost unsquishable strength
While many beetles are rounded on top, the diabolical ironclad is flat and low to the ground, University of California, Irvine, materials scientist David Kisailus tells Science News’ Maria Temming. That makes it hard to squish, since the pressure is distributed over the whole shell.
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The Mystery of the Indestructible Beetle
Jesus Rivera liked to scan Craigslist for crashed motorcycles. The first one he ever took home was a totaled green Suzuki GSX-R. It took him about a year, tinkering with wires, cutting metal, and forging new parts in the subterranean machine shop of the engineering building at UC Irvine, but he and a small group of fellow grad students in the materials science program eventually turned the motorcycle into a Formula One–style race car. … The first eerie thing Rivera read about the diabolical ironclad beetle, or Phloeodes diabolicus, was the pushpin thing.
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The smart clothes you control with an app are coming
Well now, researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have taken inspiration from an ocean creature to bring us temperature-regulating clothing. … “The inspiration for this study stemmed from our team’s fascination with cephalopods and their amazing camouflage abilities,” the first words from Melvin Colorado Escobar, a PhD student on the research team, invoke childlike inquisition. “Squid, in particular ….”
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Trinity Consultants, Inc., has full time opportunities for Environmental Engineers at several locations throughout the U.S. We are looking for the best and brightest Chemical, Civil and Environmental Engineers to join our team. Trinity will be onsite at the University of California Irvine on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 hosting onsite interviews for this role. Students can apply online at https://app.joinhandshake.com/jobs/2869755
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The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life
“The bladder may reach maximum capacity before an urge is felt, at which point urination may happen suddenly and spontaneously,” according to “A Review of Challenges & Opportunities: Variable and Partial Gravity for Human Habitats in L.E.O.,” or low Earth orbit. This is a report that came out last year from the authors Ronke Olabisi, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and Mae Jemison, a retired NASA astronaut. Read More