Innovation Pipeline

Oil and water do mix — all too often. And they’re not so easy to separate. Just ask the research scientists trying to develop next-generation water-filtration technologies to do it.
But with the 21st century toolsets of nanotech and chemistry, they promise to overcome vexing problems of cost-effectively removing oil agents from drinking water.
Researchers at Purdue [...]

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Research teams at Clemson, UCLA and the University of Southampton are pioneering novel nanoscale sensors for detecting environmental toxins and other harmful airborne chemical and biological agents.
At Clemson, researchers have developed nanoscale cantilevers that potentially could be placed in a handheld device and used for real-time chemical alerts in detecting harmful gases on the battlefield, [...]

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For years engineers and utilities have been waxing on and on about the future of the utility grid and the economic importance of having a smarter, more flexible infrastructure for distributing electricity. But the conversation goes silent when it comes to the price tag: $1.5 trillion.
There’s no doubt that a radical improvement needs to be [...]

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