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- - Physics professor among researchers detailing how antineutrino detectors could aid nuclear nonproliferation
    Patrick Huber, a professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Physics, has co-authored an article that describes the potential uses and limitations of antineutrino detectors for nuclear security applications related to reactor, spent fuel, and explosion monitoring.
- - Two fundamental research projects aim to reduce the impact of carbon emissions on climate
    Cheng Chen, an assistant professor of mining and minerals engineering in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, is working on new ways to reduce the impacts of global climate change through carbon sequestration, the capacity to store carbon dioxide in underground geologic formations.
- - Chen-Ching Liu named to the National Academy of Engineering
    Under Liu’s leadership, the Power and Energy Center’s researchers are creating advanced technologies for their envisioned power grid of the future, the Cyber Grid, and training the next generation of power engineers in a time of unprecedented transformation for the industry.
- - Virginia Tech awarded Nuclear Regulatory Commission Integrated University Program grants
    The nuclear engineering program in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded two grants totaling $850,000 for faculty development and graduate student fellowships.
- - Multidisciplinary project aims to make mining more efficient, safer
    Virginia Tech researchers are leading a team in a three-year, $900,000 project to improve the efficiency of dust scrubbers in underground mining operations, one aspect of many that impacts effective mining operation that industry constantly seeks to improve.
- - Study has wide-reaching impact on safe storage of nuclear energy waste
    A fundamental study into underground permeability can help society harness nuclear energy as a safe, stable, and secure energy source.
- - Grant helps Virginia Tech scientists find new ways to use secondary logging materials
    The study, in collaboration with Auburn University, West Virginia University, and the University of Maine, will examine the collection of branches, tops, and other residue materials to determine how to make them an economically viable resource.
- - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team places second in first year of EcoCAR Mobility Challenge
    The team will receive a 2019 Chevy Blazer in August 2019, which they will modify to incorporate their designs from year one.
- - Wind Turbine Team soars to a second-place finish at Collegiate Wind Competition
    Committed to a future that utilizes wind energy as a reliable and clean energy source, students intertwine coursework with hands-on learning.
- - Jumping drops get boost from gravity
    Researchers from Virginia Tech are seeking the best way to shed moisture from condensers to increase the efficiency of a variety of items including power plants or anything that requires heat exchange.
- - Physics’ Ed Barnes to develop mathematical models for research into exotic topological materials
    Barnes will use a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to create mathematical models that will help scientists better understand how electrical currents flow in special compounds that possess a property known as topology.
- - Rayne Zheng receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
    Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received the award to study rational design and additive manufacturing of 3D piezoelectrics with arbitrary anisotropy for maritime self-sensing structures.
- - Mechanical engineers develop process to 3D print piezoelectric materials
    New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducers.
- - Chemistry professor's research shocking the battery field
    Chemistry professor Feng Lin is working on developing better-performing and safer batteries. Lin’s work covers the gamut of chemistry and materials science battery research, looking at micro-scale and basic science aspects, as well as macro-scale and applied science.
- - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team powers way to fourth place
    Virginia Tech's Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team placed fourth overall in the EcoCAR 3 competition's fourth and final year - after turning a stock Chevy Camaro into a fuel sipping hybrid.
- - Amanda Morris’ chemistry lab mimicking how plants energize in bid to create clean, sustainable energy
    Morris and her student researchers are trying to mimic the ways plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide to storable food.
- - Chemistry researcher plans to layer nanofibers over glass to ease energy consumption in buildings, vehicles
    Guoliang "Greg" Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, will use a five-year, $585,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to create super-thin nanofibers that can cover windows in buildings and cars in a multi-prong effort to cut energy consumption and reduce the often bright, blinding glare of the sun.
- - Virginia Tech’s director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems takes on grand challenge
    Over the next 30 years, present electrical grids are projected to quadruple. Virginia Tech’s new director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems Dushan Boroyevich is working toward solving this challenge.
- - Virginia Tech’s director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems takes on grand challenge
    Over the next 30 years, present electrical grids are projected to quadruple. Virginia Tech’s new director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems Dushan Boroyevich is working toward solving this challenge.
- - Physics researchers eye experimental box as key to tracking nuclear activity by rogue nations
    Researchers at the Virginia Tech College of Science have built an experimental neutrino detector that they say could lead to a turning point in how the United Nations tracks rogue nations that seek nuclear power.

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