Varsha Rao

Setting the stage for cell 'directors' to repair fractures: Rao wins Three Minute Thesis competition

March 4, 2021

What do movie sets and biomaterial environments have in common? According to Varsha Rao, a fifth-year PhD student in the Anseth Lab who placed first in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Feb. 16, they both need "directors" to call the shots.

Snake skin

Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material

March 2, 2021

A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic 鈥渟kin鈥 as slippery as the scales of a snake. The research, published recently in the American Chemical Society journal Applied Materials & Interfaces, addresses an under-appreciated problem in engineering: Friction.

Cross-sectional SEM image of the spin-coated MAPbI3 film processed from DMF precursor solution (annealed for 5 s at 100 掳C) on a PTAA-covered ITO glass substrate.

Growing a better, more affordable solar cell from perovskite

March 2, 2021

While solar panels have traditionally used silicon-based cells, researchers are increasingly looking to perovskite-based solar cells to create panels that are more efficient, less expensive to produce and can be manufactured at the scale needed to power the world.

Image of complex interaction of proteins

Velcro-like cellular proteins key to tissue strength

March 1, 2021

Where do bodily tissues get their strength? New CU Boulder research provides important new clues to this long-standing mystery, identifying how specialized proteins called cadherins join forces to make cells stick鈥攁nd stay stuck鈥攖ogether.

A woman works at her computer with her baby in her lap

Why do men publish more research papers than women? Motherhood plays key role

Feb. 25, 2021

The study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, suggests that persistent differences in parenting roles are the key reason that men tend to publish more research papers than women.

Skull

New wave technique allows for better understanding of the skull

Feb. 25, 2021

Matteo Mazzotti is the first author on two new studies that measure the dynamic response of the human skull, potentially providing a new and non-invasive way to monitor the cranial bone and brain.

Lynch

Maureen Lynch to study links between cancer, skeletal heath and exercise

Feb. 23, 2021

Lynch's research focuses on biomechanics, 3D tissue engineering, and cancer. Her project is titled 鈥淒ysfunctional Osteocyte Mechanoresponse in Tumor-induced Bone Disease.鈥

Solar and wind energy

What went wrong with Texas鈥 power grid?

Feb. 22, 2021

Energy grid experts Kyri Baker, assistant professor in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and Bri-Mathias Hodge, associate professor in Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering鈥攂oth Fellows of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)鈥攁nswered some questions for CU Boulder Today.

John Zhai

Researchers study social distancing, ventilation in predicting the probability of COVID infection

Feb. 18, 2021

Zhai is a corresponding author on a November paper that explores the effectiveness of social distancing and ventilation in preventing COVID-19 transmission indoors.

Old computer

Seed grant could lead to materials needed for unconventional computing revolution

Feb. 18, 2021

An interdisciplinary team of researchers in the college are working to develop materials to enable the next generation of computing. If successful, the boundary between materials and computers may disappear altogether in the near future.

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