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Feb 16 | News
A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern Univ.'s Center for Catalysis and scientists at Oxford University has produced a new approach for understanding surfaces, particularly metal oxide surfaces, widely used in industry as supports for catalysts.
Feb 8 | News
Northwestern Univ. researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors. Minimally invasive, the therapy activates the bone marrow stem cells and produces natural cartilage. No conventional therapy can do this.
Jan 29 | News
A researcher from Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Medicine has invented a novel way to halt and even reverse rheumatoid arthritis. He developed an imitation of a suicide molecule that floats undetected into overactive immune cells responsible for the disease.
Jan 27 | News
Not every object is food to a Venus flytrap. Like the carnivorous plant, a new material developed at Northwestern Univ. permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not other harmless ions like sodium.
Jan 26 | News
A team of Northwestern Univ. researchers has discovered that X-rays can trigger the formation of a new type of crystal: charged cylindrical filaments ordered like a bundle of pencils experiencing repulsive forces, which is unknown in crystals.
Jan 14 | News
A Northwestern Univ. study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and, thus, vivid image contrast.
Jan 12 | News
Northwestern Univ. researchers have developed compact, mid-infrared laser diodes that generate more light than heat—a breakthroughs in quantum cascade laser efficiency. The results are an important step toward use of quantum cascade lasers in a variety of applications, including remote sensing of hazardous chemicals.
12/17/2009 | News
Why rely on electricity when bacteria will do the job with oxygen? Scientists at Argonne Lab and Northwestern University have harnessed a certain type of aerobic bacteria that, swimming in groups of several hundred, predictably turn toothed microgears in solution.
12/3/2009 | News
Northwestern Univ. researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 W from a single device at room temperature. That’s up from just 34 W a year ago and is particularly attractive for anyone wishing to use infrared countermeasure, a way of misguiding incoming missiles to protect commercial and military aircrafts.
12/2/2009 | News
Northwestern Univ. researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature. The results are particularly attractive for infrared countermeasure, a way of misguiding incoming missiles to protect commercial and military aircrafts.