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Fluorescent Fish Genes Could Help Uncover Source of Pediatric Cancer
HOUSTON, July 17, 2018 — A transgenic zebrafish that produces fluorescent tags in migratory embryonic nerve precursor cells could help lead researchers to the origins of neuroblastoma, a pediatric cancer in which malignant cells form in immature nerve tissue. Undergraduate Sarah Downing (left) and neurodevelopmental biologist Rosa Uribe conduct research in the Uribe Lab at Rice University. Courtesy of Jeff Fitlow/Rice University. The zebrafish line, created by researchers from Rice University, the University
Light-Harvesting Membranes Heat, Desalinate Water in One Step
HOUSTON, June 27, 2018 — A Rice University-led team will conduct further development and field testing of a desalination technology that uses nanoparticles and sunlight to treat water, with help from a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE). The technology,...
Rice Team Earns $10M NSF Award for Live Biology Microscopy
ARLINGTON, Va., March 26, 2018 — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $10 million to a Rice University-led team that aims to create wearable and point-of-care microscopes that use on-chip illumination and sensing to noninvasively aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of...
Halas Wins Weizmann Women and Science Award
HOUSTON, May 31, 2017 — Professor Naomi Halas at Rice University has won a 2017 Weizmann Women and Science Award from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. The biennial award, which was established in 1994, honors internationally renowned women scientists who have...
Imaging Array Captures Minute Details From a Distance
HOUSTON, April 25, 2017 — A unique camera that can capture a detailed micron-resolution image from a distance uses a laser and techniques that borrow from holography, microscopy and "Matrix"-style bullet time. Engineers from Rice and Northwestern Universities built the...
Baraniuk Receives DoD Bush Fellowship
HOUSTON, April 13, 2017 — Rice University’s Richard Baraniuk has won a five-year fellowship from the U.S. Defense Department’s valued at up to $3 million for “blue sky” basic research that could produce new technologies. Baraniuk is one of 13 Vannevar...
Plasmons Enable Tunable IR Light Source
HOUSTON, Texas, May 27, 2016 — A nanoscale optical parametric amplifier (OPA) has been demonstrated to function as a tunable IR light source. The device functions much like a laser; but while lasers have a fixed output frequency, the output from the nanoscale OPA can be tuned...
Plastic Fluorescence Microscope Brings Diagnostic Care to Rural Poor
HOUSTON, Nov. 9, 2015 — A miniature plastic digital fluorescence microscope that can quantify white blood cell levels in patients aims to improve disease detection in rural parts of the world. The inexpensive point-of-care device examines blood smears, allowing health care...
Fiber Microendoscope Could Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies
HOUSTON, June 3, 2015 — A low-cost, portable, battery-powered microendoscope developed at Rice University could reduce the need for costly biopsies for many patients undergoing screening for esophageal cancer. That's the conclusion of researcher behind a clinical study...
Richards-Kortum Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
HOUSTON, April 27, 2015 — Rebecca Richards-Kortum, a bioengineering professor at Rice University who uses optics to help fight disease, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A member of the Rice faculty since 2005, Richards-Kortum directs...
Camera-Based Monitoring of Vital Signs Improved
HOUSTON, April 8, 2015 — Refined signal processing allows video cameras to monitor vital signs regardless of ambient lighting and the subject’s skin color. A new algorithm developed by researchers at Rice University detects subtle variations in skin tone caused by...
Multilayer QD Solar Cells Promising for Natcore
RED BANK, N.J., Feb. 23, 2015 — A new breed of quantum dots (QDs) could enable multilayer solar cells that capture more of the sun’s energy. Natcore Technology Inc. said scientists in the laboratories of co-founder Dr. Andrew Barron, who is also a professor at Rice...
Trends in New Materials
Jan 16, 2015 — Scientists are developing an entirely new generation of ultrathin materials such as graphene and germanene, whose photonic properties promise a new frontier of components and devices. Graphene is a wonder material: a sheet of pure, stable carbon in...
2-D Material Shows Promise for Image Sensing
HOUSTON, Dec. 22, 2014 — Ultrathin chalcogenide films could form the basis of tiny, adaptable bioimagers. Composed of copper indium selenide (CIS), a prototype three-pixel CCD has already demonstrated the ability to capture and store image information, according to...
Laser Creates Graphene Electronics from Polymer
HOUSTON, Dec. 10, 2014 — An IR CO2 laser operating at room temperature can turn cheap polymer into multilayer graphene with heightened electrical conductivity and capacitance. Researchers at Rice University say their one-step laser-induced graphene (LIG) process could...
Color Display Technology Furthers ‘Squid Skin’ Project
HOUSTON, Sept. 16, 2014 — A new color display brings scientists one step closer to metamaterials that mimic the unique optical properties of squid, octopus and cuttlefish skin. Developed at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), the new full-color...
Biomimetic Photodetector Distinguishes Color
HOUSTON, Aug. 26, 2014 — A new photodetector mimics living organisms’ ability to sense colors, enhancing color filtering and selectivity. The biomimetic color photodetector, developed at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), uses an aluminum...
Quantum Materials Appoints Advisory Committee, Directors
SAN MARCOS, Texas, July 22, 2014 — Quantum dot maker Quantum Materials Corp. recently created a scientific advisory board and named two outside executives to its board of directors. The scientific advisory board will be chaired by Ghassan Jabbour, director of the renewable energy...
Sensor Amplifies Molecule Signatures
HOUSTON, July 17, 2014 — A new sensing technique can accurately identify the structure and composition of individual molecules. Researchers from the Rice University Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) developed the device, which they said has the ability to amplify single...
Career Award Funds CO2 Photocatalysis Study
HOUSTON, Texas, June 20, 2014 — Rice University professor Isabell Thomann has received a $400,000 Career Award from the National Science Foundation to study photocatalytic reactions that could reduce carbon dioxide emitted by power plants. Her five-year research project involves...
More Efficient Solar Cells with a One-Step Process
HOUSTON, June 20, 2014 — A new one-step process for producing efficient materials could mean big things for solar cells. Developed by a team at Rice University, the new process produces black silicon. This material reflects almost no light. Its textured surface of nanoscale...
Antenna-free THz Detector Uses Nanotube Thin Films
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., HOUSTON and TOKYO, June 13, 2014 — Significant improvements in medical imaging, airport screening and food inspection could be on the horizon. A team from Sandia National Labs, in collaboration with Rice University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, has begun developing carbon...
Team Bridges Nanocatalyst Size Gap for Real-Time Data
COLUMBIA, S.C., and HOUSTON, June 9, 2014 — Obtaining real-time reaction information from nanocatalysts has long impeded attempts to describe them in detailed kinetic behavior. But a team from the University of South Carolina and Rice University has discovered just how to do it. The...
4 Photonics Projects Get Defense Funding
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2014 — The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded funding totaling $28.3 million for four photonics graduate research projects under its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). Brief summaries of the projects follow. For further...
SPIE Names 2014 Award Winners
BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 18, 2014 — SPIE has announced its 2014 award recipients, who are being honored for their outstanding achievements in the industry. And the winners are: SPIE Gold Medal Award: James Harrington of Rutgers University for his contributions to the field of...
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