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Building a Better Space Suit
CRiSP faculty member Norman Wagner's interdisciplinary collaboration leads to innovative new fabric. When future astronauts head to the Moon, they may very well be wearing space suits created, in part, through a collaboration between two University of Delaware...
Watson & Wagner Honored with 2025 ACS Awards
Congratulations to CRiSP faculty members Mary P. Watson for receiving the 2025 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and Norman J. Wagner on being honored with the 2025 ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry. Read more here
A Roadmap for Electrochemical Performance
In a paper published Aug. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the result of collaborative research between UD's CRiSP faculty Norman Wagner, Northwestern University and industry researchers, the authors report expanded understanding on...
Day recognised in Technical.ly’s 2024 RealLIST Engineers, Delaware
Congratulations to CRiSP's Associate Prof. Emily Day for being honored as one of Technical.ly’s 2024 RealLIST Engineers in Delaware. Read more here.
From Plastic Waste to Electronic Devices
A new study conducted by researchers at UD and Argonne National Laboratory shows how waste Styrofoam can be transformed into polymers for electronics. Read more here.
Fresh Hope for Chronic Wounds
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new wound management products that include patented hydrogels invented by UD material scientist Darrin Pochan and Joel Schneider, a former UD faculty member now at the National Cancer Institute. Licensed for use...
Celebrating National Inventors Month: Sambeeta Das
Congratulations Sambeeta for your recognition during National Inventors Month! University of Delaware’s Sambeeta “Sam” Das, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is among more than 300 UD inventors working on solutions to challenging societal problems. Her...
Mastering Molecule Mechanics
CRiSP's Prof. Norman Wagner's work is highlighted in the UDaily article "Mastering molecule mechanics" by Karen B. Roberts. The article can be read here.
High-Throughput Innovation
Researchers in the lab of April Kloxin, Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Development Professor, are engineering unique materials as well as 3D cell culture and disease models. Now, the group is using Inventia’s RASTRUM™ 3D cell culture platform to scale up the speed of the...
ACS Travel Grant Awarded to Jignesh Mahajan
Congratulations to Jignesh Mahajan who has been selected for the ACS Sustainable Future Scholar Travel Grant Award for the 2024 Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference from June 3 – 5, 2024, in Atlanta, GA. This was a unique opportunity provided to the ACS GCI...
Research Heavy Hitters
Congratulations to CRiSP's Yushan Yan for being named one of 2023's Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, a global analytics company. Read more here.
Improving Materials Design
CRiSP faculty member Norman Wagner talks about his NSF funded research on creating a foundational model that can improve the understanding of a variety of materials. Read more at UDaily.