18 Current news of Rice University
rssIn calculating energies for graphene, Rice researchers find clues to chiral control
12-09-2010
New research at Rice University could ultimately show scientists the way to make batches of nanotubes of a single type. A paper in the online journal Physical Review Letters unveils an elegant formula by Rice University physicist Boris Yakobson and his colleagues that defines the energy of a ...
Intensity increases 1,000-fold in Rice lab's experiment
09-23-2010
Everybody who's ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make those devices practical. A lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light in the same way, at a small scale that has big potential. Condensed matter ...
Research could yield novel composites, touch-screen displays
06-02-2010
In a development that could lead to novel carbon composites and touch-screen displays, researchers from Rice University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology unveiled a new method for producing bulk quantities of one-atom-thick sheets of carbon called graphene. When stacked ...
Self-assembly method yields materials with unique optical properties
06-01-2010
Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing metamaterials. Much as a child might use Lego blocks to ...
Photothermal technique provides new way to track nanoparticles
02-08-2010
Stephan Link wants to understand how nanomaterials align, and his lab's latest work is a step in the right direction. Link's Rice University group has found a way to use gold nanorods as orientation sensors by combining their plasmonic properties with polarization imaging techniques. That ...
Rice lab makes solid material transparent to terahertz waves
12-11-2009
Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but there it was: a plasmonic material that would, with adjustments to its ...
Researchers from Lehigh and Rice universities combine electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to shed new light on a tungstated zirconia catalyst
11-11-2009
The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities. In an article published Nov. 8 by the journal Nature Chemistry, the ...
Rice scientists use nanomaterials to grow flying carpets, 'odako' kites
07-31-2009
With products that range from carpets to kites, you'd think Rice University chemist Bob Hauge was running a department store. What he's really running is a revolution in the world of carbon nanotechnology. In a paper published this month in Nano Research, Hauge's Rice University team ...
Guanajuato will be first to try Rice's arsenic-cleansing 'nanorust'
05-29-2009
Rice University researchers announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year in Guanajuato, Mexico. "Mexico's debating the adoption of more stringent national standards ...
04-14-2009
Scientists have designed tiny new sensor structures that could be used in novel security devices to detect poisons and explosives, or in highly sensitive medical sensors. The new 'nanosensors', which are based on a fundamental science discovery in UK, Belgian and US research groups, could be ...
