by eosarmie | Apr 24, 2024 | News
Tools enable testing of biological and synthetic materials under extreme conditions From UCI News: The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, under its Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, has granted materials scientists at UC Irvine $1.5 million...
by eosarmie | Apr 18, 2024 | News
New project explores use of microbes as mineral extractors in extreme environments From UCI News: In recent years, researchers at UC Irvine and other institutions have studied the molecular mechanisms by which microbes survive in hyper-arid desert environments by...
by eosarmie | Mar 20, 2024 | News
Insect ‘blueprints’ to guide development of new defense and aerospace technologies. Reposted from UCI News: A team led by researchers at UC Irvine has won a $904,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a four-year project to uncover the...
by eosarmie | Jan 15, 2024 | News
One of the graduate students in the lab, Ezra Sarmiento, took the first place spot for this year’s Science is Art competition at UCI. The micrograph Ezra submitted is a micrograph of geologic iron oxide titled Amidst Tekkadan: The Iron Roses taken using a FEI...
by eosarmie | Nov 29, 2023 | News
Our lab has done much research on the mantis shrimp which has lead to our lab getting patents, which formed a start up company – Helicoid Industries, which then sub-licensed the patents to CCM, who are now making hockey sticks, including for teams in the NHL! From...
by eosarmie | Oct 22, 2023 | News
Organized by SCHOTT in Mainz, Germany, the Materials Panel for New Space brought together luminaries from the international space industry to share ideas on the future of materials for space. Dr. David Kisailus spoke to representatives from space agencies (NASA Jet...
