Research
S&T researcher thinks “inside the box” to create self-contained wastewater system for soldiers, small towns
Cheaper. Better. Faster. Most people will say you can’t have all three. But don’t tell that to Dr. Jianmin Wang, a professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Wang has created a wastewater system “in a box.” Each system, built by re-purposing a shipping container, is low power, low maintenance and highly efficient. Built from weathering steel, these containers are designed to be tough and can be dropped on site by helicopters.
Read More »S&T researchers study carbon sequestration for City Utilities in Springfield
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are studying how City Utilities of Springfield, Mo., can sequester carbon dioxide in shallow formations.
Read More »Future engineers encouraged to embrace transformational changes
Missouri University of Science and Technology has been awarded $149,838 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help future engineers navigate business climates that are undergoing transformational changes.
Read More »‘Nanospears’ could lead to better solar cells, lasers, lighting
Growing – and precisely aligning – microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have developed a method to make more efficient solar cells.
Grad student researches improvised explosive devices by making his own
Phillip Mulligan is trying to make improvised explosive devices more powerful with the idea of eventually making them less deadly.
Read More »Quantum dot research could lead to medical advances
Working with atomic-scale particles known as quantum dots, a Missouri University of Science and Technology biologist hopes to develop a new and better way to deliver and monitor proteins, medicine, DNA and other molecules at the cellular level.
Read More »The rubber is hitting the road at Missouri S&T
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are investigating ways to use rubber and resin from the guayule plant to help pave roads.
Read More »S&T researcher gets stimulus funds to recycle silicon
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced the funding of 24 new solar projects as part of the nation’s economic stimulus efforts. One of the projects involves research at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where Dr. Lifeng Zhang is working on methods to recycle silicon wastes generated in the production of solar wafers.
Read More »Military historian’s latest book uncovers ‘Band of Brothers’ falsehood
Despite the stirring portrayal in Band of Brothers, Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division was not the first to enter Adolf Hitler’s Berchtesgaden mountain retreat near the end of World War II, says military historian Dr. John C. McManus in a new book.
Earthquake recording stations to be located in Missouri
As part of a National Science Foundation initiative called EarthScope, 43 earthquake recording stations will be placed in Missouri and southern Iowa in 2010-2011. Dr. Stephen Gao, a seismologist in the geology and geophysics program at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is working with four students from Missouri universities to conduct field surveys and identify locations for the stations.
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