Dedric Carter has been appointed as Washington University in St. Louis’ first vice chancellor for innovation and chief commercialization officer (CCO).
New position will advance culture of innovation across the university
August 4, 2021 SHARE
Dedric Carter, vice chancellor for operations and technology transfer, has been appointed as Washington University in St. Louis’ first vice chancellor for innovation and chief commercialization officer (CCO). The appointment is effective Aug. 1, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin, PhD, and David H. Perlmutter, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
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In his new role, Carter will provide vision and strategy to advance the culture of innovation across the university, strengthen intellectual property assets for licensing, and identify new ventures and opportunities in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. He will engage with internal and external partners to build and grow the innovation activities in all departments and schools.
Novel Way to Boost the Performance of Solid-State Batteries
Written by AZoMMay 21 2021
Although solid-state batteries can pack plenty of energy into a compact space, their electrodes are not that good at making a contact with their electrolytes.
Illustration of a conventional solid-state battery and the team’s new high-performance design that contains tailored electrode-electrolyte interfaces. Image Credit: Beniamin Zahiri and Paul Braun.
Liquid electrolytes spark energy by reaching all nooks and corners of an electrode, but liquids also tend to take up a lot of space without preserving energy and also fail in due time.
Now, scientists have identified a new way to allow solid electrolytes to make contact with electrodes that are composed of strategically arranged materials at the atomic level and the outcomes are supporting the drive toward more improved solid-state battery technologies.
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A watch-like device that could help save thousands of lives by alerting its wearers to harmful ultraviolet rays is at prototype stage, with its Macquarie University inventors ready to bring it out of the lab and into the world.
A tiny nanosensor, the size of a fingernail, is the key to a new wearable device that detects harmful ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer. Developed by Dr Noushin Nasiri, Head of the Nanotechnology Laboratory at Macquarie’s School of Engineering, the device could help prevent thousands of deaths.
“Once I’d developed the sensor, I was very keen to bring it out of the laboratory and into the world as quickly as possible but I needed a smart device to put it into,” says Nasiri, whose research focuses on using nanotechnology to create wearable devices for preventative health.
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URBANA, Ill., April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign s Grainger College of Engineering and Mayo Clinic have developed a new technique for creating microcancer cell cultures. It allows researchers to form hundreds of microcancers in a high-throughput format using a small, microfabricated chip, enabling direct measurement of cell health or response to drugs. It also allows researchers to control the shape of the culture using capillary forces and, thus, create cultures that more closely resemble
in-vivo cells three-dimensional geometry.
The work was recently published in
A cancerous tumor s microenvironment - the area where cancerous cells interact with healthy tissue through physical contact or by exchanging extracellular signals back and forth - has significant influence on how a tumor progresses and responds to cancer-fighting medications. Reproducing those cells in a culture that can be imaged and studied is a crucial