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Novel Method for Isotope Enrichment

Novel Method for Isotope Enrichment

Mark Raizen and his colleagues have developed a new method for enriching stable isotopes, a group of the world’s most expensive chemical commodities which are vital to medical imaging and nuclear power. The work has attracted some attention from the science and medical world.

Backstage Pass to the Texas Pettawatt Laser

Backstage Pass to the Texas Pettawatt Laser

Science writer and UT Austin alumnus Joe Hanson (Ph.D. '13) takes us on a tour of the Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science, home of the Texas Pettawatt Laser. Photos by Robert Schults evoke the awe and mystery of this fundamental research. Read the article in the July/August 2014 edition of the Alcalde: 1,000,000,000,000,000 Wat...
Improved Method for Isotope Enrichment Could Secure a Vital Global Commodity

Improved Method for Isotope Enrichment Could Secure a Vital Global Commodity

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a new method for enriching a group of the world’s most expensive chemical commodities, stable isotopes, which are vital to medical imaging and nuclear power, as reported this week in the journal Nature Physics.

The Super Material Of The Future Will Be Cheap, Strong And Organic

In The Huffington Post

Physicist, Chemist Receive DOE Early Career Research Program Awards

Physicist, Chemist Receive DOE Early Career Research Program Awards

Keji Lai, assistant professor of physics, and Katherine “Kallie” Willets, assistant professor of chemistry, have received Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program awards.

A New Supermaterial: Nanocellulose

Perfecting the production process could help reduce greenhouse gases.
C. Grant Willson Wins Japan Prize

C. Grant Willson Wins Japan Prize

Chemist is recognized for development of a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all of the microprocessors and memory chips in the world.
Chemistry Major Wade Wang Is Helping to Build a Better Microchip

Chemistry Major Wade Wang Is Helping to Build a Better Microchip

Chemistry major Wade Wang is part of the decades-long, global project to the keep the size of transistors shrinking.
Chemist Named Inventor of the Year by UT Austin

Chemist Named Inventor of the Year by UT Austin

C. Grant Willson invented a nanolithography process used for manufacturing computer chips, hard drives and other electronic components.
Computer Memory Could Increase Fivefold From Chemist's Research

Computer Memory Could Increase Fivefold From Chemist's Research

In a paper in Science, C. Grant Willson and colleagues report on processes they are developing that could increase storage capacity by a factor of five.