Simulation shows a 10-atom platinum nanocatalyst cluster. The “bulge” caused by the 10th atom gives the cluster improved catalytic properties. (Credit: Uzi Landman, Georgia Tech)

For this Nanocatalyst, One Atom Makes a Big Difference

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have explained why platinum nanoclusters of a specific size range facilitate the hydrogenation reaction used to produce ethane from ethylene.

Image shows activation of “AND” gates in cells as observed by fluorescence microscopy. (Credit: Chiara Zurla, Georgia Tech)

Scientists Demonstrate Basics of Nucleic Acid Computing Inside Cells

Atlanta, GA

Using strands of nucleic acid, scientists have demonstrated basic computing operations inside a living mammalian cell.

Triboelectric nanogenerators use a combination of the triboelectric effect and electrostatic induction to generate small amounts of electrical power from mechanical motions such as rotation, sliding or vibration. (Credit: Zhong Lin Wang Laboratory)

Two-Stage Power Management System Boosts Energy-Harvesting Efficiency

Atlanta, GA

A power management and storage system could boost energy harvesting.

Shown are elements of the NESA-FEBID process involving nanoelectrospray delivery of electrically-energized liquid phase precursor to the substrate where it interacts with an e-beam, resulting in formation of nanoscale deposits. (Credit: Jeffrey Fisher, Georgia Tech)

3D “Nanobridges” Formed Using Electron Beam Writing with Tiny Jets of Liquid Precursor

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have demonstrated a new process for rapidly fabricating complex three-dimensional nanostructures from a variety of materials, including metals.

GTRI principal research engineer Mick West, graduate student Jacob Buffo of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and undergraduate Matthew Meister of the School of Mechanical Engineering handle the 210-pound Icefin at Georgia Tech’s Underwater Acoustics Research Laboratory.

Autonomous Machines are On Their Own

Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech innovations are making unmanned aircraft, boats and submersibles smarter and more capable.

Because of its hair, a cat has the true surface area as a ping pong table.

A Hairy Situation: Hair Increases Surface Area for Animals by 100 Times

Atlanta, GA

Because of hair, a cat's true surface area is the size of a ping pong table.

Because of its hair, a cat has the true surface area as a ping pong table.

A Hairy Situation: Hair Increases Surface Area for Animals by 100 Times

Atlanta, GA

Because of hair, a cat's true surface area is the size of a ping pong table.

Image shows results from massive parallel computer quantum simulations of two and three ultra-cold fermionic atoms trapped in a double well confinement and interacting via strong replusive and attractive contact interactions, showing formation of entangled states and highly correlated Wigner molecules. See additional figure description. (Credit: Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Science)

Entering the Strange World of Ultra-Cold Chemistry

Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech has received a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study the unusual chemical and physical properties of atoms and molecules at ultra-cold temperatures.

Carnegie Corp. Awards $485,000 Grant to Nunn School to Study Nuclear Instability

Atlanta, GA

Sam Nunn School of International Affairs receives grant to study how technologies are increasing nuclear instability.

Ants were put in a rheometer, a machine used to test the solid-like and liquid-like response of materials such as food, hand cream or melted plastic.

Ants: Both Solid-like and Liquid-like

Atlanta, GA

Study finds that ants are actually liquid-like and solid-like simultaneously