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An interdepartmental team of Johns Hopkins engineers has received a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build and program tiny, soft robots. The robots are expected to respond…

If you can get tiny particles to self-assemble into crystal structures, there’s no end to the products you can create: cosmetics, petroleum products, and solar panels, for example. ChemBE major Zachary Schmidt, a junior, explores this process in the lab.

Her research is laying the groundwork toward a long-term goal of deriving vascular cells from stem cells, growing the vessels in vitro, and then implanting or injecting them into patients to replace the diseased vasculature.

A cell’s properties—the way it moves, its shape, its texture, and its stiffness—have an enormous impact on human development, the immune response, and the progression of cancer. But researchers studying those cell mechanics often wind up with different results from their colleagues’, leading to confusion and delaying potential breakthroughs in cancer treatment and immunotherapy.

Using a technique called micropatterning, scientists discover cellular tension and pressure are key factors in stem cell growth and behavior.

Clancy’s research group is a leader in the modeling and simulation of semiconductor materials ranging from traditional silicon-based compounds to all organic materials.

If you built the largest, most powerful computer currently feasible, it would have about the same number of transistors as there are synapses in the brain of a 3-year-old child.…

Rayyan Gorashi (Gerecht Lab) and Ayon Mitra (Gracias Lab) travel to Belgium as part of the International Research Experience for Students Program, where they do collaborative research on microelectronics and…

They will work to produce a commercially viable exhaust-gas catalyst system that kicks in as soon as an engine is started.

The award was presented in recognition of Schmalzer’s long service to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Johns Hopkins University.

  ChemBE seniors and BFFs Ariana Sherman, Joan Golding, and Anna Garcia developed a fresh twist on the age-old problem of pimples in their Product Design class. Read about their…

Eugenia Volkova, PhD candidate in the Gerecht Lab, has been awarded an Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Graduate Fellowship. Volkova studies how the physical properties of ECM-mimicking hydrogels contribute to changes…