News & Updates

J-WAFS Fellows discuss their inspiration for pursuing challenges in water and food systems.

With new techniques in electron microscopy, James LeBeau explores the nanoscale landscape within materials to understand their properties.

Metal stents or staples that disintegrate on demand inside the body could eliminate some surgical and endoscopic procedures.

Pacemakers and other medical devices, as well as long-distance drones and remote sensors, could require fewer battery replacements with new approach.

The device provides greater sensitivity and speed than previous versions, and could be used for industrial inspection, airport security, and communications.

By analyzing enzyme activity at the organism, tissue, and cellular scales, new sensors could provide new tools to clinicians and cancer researchers.

A technique for synthesizing many “white graphene” nanotubes at a time paves the way for stronger, heat-resistant composites, and membranes for renewable energy.

Using biological, chemical, and engineering tools, she has developed strategies to attack molecules once thought to be “undruggable.”

Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 won for the AgZen-Cloak, an invention that makes pesticides stick to crops, minimizing pollution and water waste.