Rice Materials Science & NanoEngineering
@RiceMSNE
Materials Science & NanoEngineering at Rice University is dedicated to producing the materials scientists and engineers of the future.
Come help define the field of engineered living materials!
The Engineered Living Materials Workshop at Rice University this fall will help to establish a new field. How’s you like to be in the room where it happened? Submit your abstract today. linkedin.com/posts/marimike…
Congratulations, Associate Professor @realHanyuZhu ! 🎉🎉🎉
🎉 Congratulations to our newly promoted faculty! Please join us in celebrating their continued impact and success! 👏👏👏 🔗 engineering.rice.edu/news/rice-engi… #SolvingforGreaterGood @RiceCompSci @RiceMSNE @RiceECE @RiceBIOE @RiceCHBE @RiceCMOR @RiceMECH @RiceStatistics @RiceCEVE
📢 Our own Shengxi Huang is highlighted by @NSF for using machine learning to detect light signals 🔦 emitted by molecules in diseases such as Alzheimer's! 🔗nsf.gov/science-matter… @RiceECE @RiceMSNE @RiceEngineering
🪟 @RiceEngineering researchers developed a new coating for glass that could reduce winter energy bills by 2.9%. With over 4 billion sq ft of windows installed annually in the US, the savings can add up. 🔗 news.rice.edu/news/2025/new-… @RiceECE @RiceMSNE #SolvingforGreaterGood
⚗️ Chemistry matters more than structure for battery performance. Contrary to conventional wisdom, @RiceEngineering researchers found thermodynamic properties matter more than structural design for lithium-ion battery performance. 🔗 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/thic…
Principal Investigator Rafael Verduzco (@RafRice) along with other @RiceUniversity researchers have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, guided and powered remotely by laser beams without any…
Rice researchers have developed superstrong, eco-friendly materials from bacteria 🦠 #SolvingforGreaterGood 🔗 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice… @RiceMSNE @RiceCHBE
💡 Rethinking how robots move: AI and light drive precise motion in soft robotic arm; impact in medical and industry devices. #SolvingforGreaterGood 🔗 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/reth… 🔗 Link to pub: doi.org/10.1002/aisy.2… Great work @RiceMSNE @RiceCompSci @RiceCHBE!
⚗️ Turning carbon dioxide into fuel just got easier, thanks to acid bubbles. 🔗 Read more here: news.rice.edu/news/2025/turn… 🔗 Link to Science article: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @RiceCHBE @RiceMSNE Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI), @RWaTERInstitute #SolvingforGreaterGood
💡 Rice scientists harness vacuum fluctuations to engineer quantum materials. 🔗 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice… 🔗 Publication: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… @RiceECE @RiceMSNE @smalleycurl
⚛️ @RiceUniversity researchers report the first demonstration of low noise, room-temp quantum emitters in h-BN made through a scalable growth technique, a step toward viable quantum technologies at scale. #SolvingforGreaterGood 🔗 news.rice.edu/news/2025/near… @RiceMSNE @RiceECE
"No one had done this before." In an elegant fusion of art and science, @RiceCHBE and @RiceMSNE researchers achieved a major milestone by uncovering how to make boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) form ordered liquid crystalline phases in water. 🔗Read more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/no-o…
🎉 For her impact as a mentor, educator and advocate for student success, Karen Lozano ’96, ’99, @RiceMSNE chair at @RiceUniversity's @RiceEngineering, is named 2025 Higher Education Professional of the Year by @SloanNetwork. Congrats, @karenslab!! 🎉 🔗 engineering.rice.edu/news/karen-loz…
Congratulations to Prof. Matteo Pasquali from @RiceEngineering for being awarded the AIChE MESD Braskem Award for Excellence in Materials Engineering and Science! This award recognizes a leading researcher for outstanding contributions to the field. (1/2)
🔬 Boris Yakobson, Karl F. Hasselmann Professor in @RiceMSNE, proves his decade-old prediction about boron and copper holds up, but in an unexpected way. 🔗 Learn more here: news.rice.edu/news/2025/hope… #solvingforgreatergood #materials @RiceEngineering
💎 Lab-grown diamonds have remarkable properties. A new @RiceMSNE method for producing ultrapure diamond films could enable transformative technologies. 💡 Learn more here: news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice… 🔗 Read the article here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #solvingforgreatergood
I encourage you to dive into the new Rice Magazine story that breaks down where our research dollars go — and how they fuel an ecosystem of discovery. It’s a great explainer on direct and indirect costs, the life cycle of a grant, and how we support graduate student research at…
A team of researchers at @RiceUniversity and @bcmhouston including TAMEST Member Naomi J. Halas, Ph.D. (NAE, NAS), has developed a new strategy for identifying hazardous pollutants in soil, even ones that have never been isolated or studied in a lab: buff.ly/XSNnixZ
Professor Matteo Pasquali was named fellow of @SoRheology, the world’s leading organization of rheology. Pasquali is the A.J. Hartsook Professor in @RiceCHBE @RiceMSNE and @CarbonHub director. Congrats, @cf2_group! #SolvingforGreaterGood Read more here: lnkd.in/gmMQKFNv
🎉@RiceUniversity's Gang Bao received the 2025 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from @ASMEdotorg! Bao is the Foyt Family Professor of @RiceBIOE, chemistry and @RiceMSNE, and a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research. #SolvingforGreaterGood 🔗 Read more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/bao-…