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Karan Dikshit (PhDMatSci’22) is the first author on a paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces around new adhesive materials that not only allow for easy sticking and unsticking but could eventually contribute to sustainability efforts around the globe. Dikshit studied polymer chemistry and mechanics with Assistant Professor Carson Bruns...

Undergraduate students interested in materials research will get a boost at the University of Colorado Boulder next summer thanks to a new Research Experience for Undergraduates grant from the National Science Foundation. The Materials Science and Engineering Program is receiving a three year award from NSF to support a...

Congratulations to our 2023 graduating class! Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of 14 graduating master's and PhD students from the Materials Science & Engineering program during our official graduation ceremony: Materials Science & Engineering Graduation Ceremony Friday, May 12 5 p.m. Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community Building - C120...

Explore all the details of the undergraduate minor The Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Colorado Boulder is announcing an undergraduate minor for students interested in the materials science field. Material scientists and engineers investigate how materials perform and how to design new materials that advance technology...

New consortium aims to accelerate the introduction of the next generation of solar panels The TEAMUP consortium, that brings together researchers from Academic, Industrial and Federal Laboratories, seeks to identify and solve the factors that cause advanced perovskite materials to be unstable, paving the way for the integration into existing...

Say “hello” to the robots of the future: They’re soft and flexible enough to bounce off walls or squeeze into tight spaces. And when you’re done with them, you can toss these machines into a compost bin to decompose. That’s the vision of a team of engineers, including CU Boulder...

Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Program have published new findings in Joule that could lead to the development of better hybrid lead halide perovskites – a class of materials proposed for use as low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. We asked first...

Adam Holewinski , an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering , has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to research efficient ways to produce sustainable chemical products and fuels using electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind. Beginning in late August, Holewinski will spend five months as a 2023...

Three students in materials science and engineering have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2023, a recognition of their strong potential for outstanding research in graduate school and beyond. The awards recognize outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The three...

Assistant Professor Longji Cui has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for research he hopes will improve the next generation of nanoelectronics and renewable energy technology. As nanotechnology continues to miniaturize to near atomic scale, while simultaneously becoming more powerful, the need to understand...