Georgia Institute of Technology

Faisal Alamgir, Seung Soon Jang, and Meisha Shofner were awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in MSE, and Sam Graham (courtesy faculty in MSE) is being promoted from Associate to Full Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. The appointments will be effective July 1, 2013.... read more

Dr. Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, has recently been honored with the ... read more

The adsorption of ions in microporous materials governs the operation of technologies as diverse as water desalination, energy storage, sensing and mechanical actuation. Until now, however, researchers attempting to improve the performance of these technologies haven’t been able to directly and... read more

Please join me in congratulating Professor John Reynolds and Dr. Tim Bunning (AFRL, Adjunct Professor in MSE) for being elected as Fellow of The Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society.

 Congratulations, John and Tim.

Jim Clancy with CNN talks with Professor Z. L. Wang. Please click on the link below to see the interview.

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A power cell that directly converts mechanical energy to chemical energy – which can then be stored and converted to electrical energy – has been selected as one of 2012’s top breakthroughs in the physical... read more

Every time we move our body, we expend a lot of energy. Researchers would love to harvest this energy to generate electricity to power portable electronic devices such as cell phones or medical implants. Now scientists have built such... read more