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August 21, 2025

Tiny Fans on the Feet of Water Bugs Could Lead to Energy Efficient, Mini Robots

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A new study explains how tiny water bugs use fan-like propellers to zip across streams at speeds up to 120 body lengths per second

AI rendering of a fast-charging battery.

August 18, 2025

Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery

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Charging batteries quickly was thought to degrade them. Georgia Tech’s findings flip that logic and open new doors for energy storage.

August 15, 2025

Inaugural Cohort of Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy Announced

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Inaugural Cohort of Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy Announced

Student working with IMS staff in the fabrication cleanroom

August 12, 2025

New Graduate Apprenticeship Program Launches at the Institute for Matter and Systems

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The program offers a structured, hands-on research apprenticeship in the IMS fabrication and characterization core facilities.

Inside the new Marcus Nanotechnology Building cleanroom space

August 11, 2025

Institute for Matter and Systems Expands Cleanroom Facilities

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New 2,000-square-foot ISO 6 cleanroom advances semiconductor packaging innovation

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Harris Saunders, Jr. Chair and Professor in the Woodruff School and MSE, and Yao Xie, Coca-Cola Foundation Chair and Professor in ISyE.

August 7, 2025

Finding Clarity in the Noise: A New Way to Recover Hidden Signals at the Nanoscale

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Georgia Tech researchers develop a method to extract reliable information from noisy data in nanoscale imaging, advancing the study of ferroelectric materials.

August 6, 2025

Iron Nanoparticles Can Help Treat Contaminated Water

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A team of scientists created iron nanoparticules out of expired supplements.

A white gloved hand holds 3 nuclear pellets with rows of nuclear pellets in the background

July 25, 2025

Nuclear Power Isn’t What You Think — and That’s a Good Thing

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Georgia Tech researchers are advancing nuclear science and engineering while deconstructing myths around the technology.

This travel case holds a toolkit containing equipment for inspecting nuclear facilities

July 20, 2025

How the World’s Nuclear Watchdog Monitors Facilities Around the World – and What it Means That Iran Kicked it Out

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What happens when a country seeks to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program?

July 18, 2025

Fun with Science: Marcus Nanotechnology Cleanroom and Materials Characterization Facility

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Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine features Walter Henderson in their latest issue "If These Walls Could Talk"

Computer generated model of nanoparticles

July 11, 2025

New AI Tool Deciphers Mysteries of Nanoparticle Motion in Liquid Environments

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Georgia Tech researchers have developed an AI model that deciphers and simulates the motion of nanoparticles in liquid environments, offering insights into nanoscale physics.

Photo of Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer

July 9, 2025

Lighting the Way to Faster Data Transfer

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DARPA is backing Professor Ali Adibi’s work to use light, not electricity, to move data faster and more efficiently in next-generation electronics.

Prototype of an "exploding" capsule next to a syringe. The capsule can deliver medications that are typically only effective if injected.

July 8, 2025

These ‘Exploding’ Capsules Could Deliver Insulin Without a Needle

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Engineers use sodium bicarb to “self-pressurize” a pill able to deliver drugs that usually require injection directly to the small intestine.

An image from Iranian television shows centrifuges lining a hall at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility in 2021. IRIB via APPEAR

July 1, 2025

Why the US Bombed a Bunch of Metal Tubes − a Nuclear Engineer Explains the Importance of Centrifuges to Iranian Efforts to Build Nuclear Weapons

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When U.S. forces attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025, the main target was metal tubes in laboratories deep underground. The tubes are centrifuges that produce highly enriched uranium needed to build nuclear weapons.

July 1, 2025

Georgia Tech Launches Two New Interdisciplinary Research Institutes

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By uniting experts across disciplines, Georgia Tech is positioning itself at the forefront of neuroscience and space research.

Gary Spinner and Rebecca Grieco received the first IMS employee excellence awards

June 27, 2025

Celebrating Employee Excellence

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Five honored with IMS Employee Excellence Awards

A diagram showing how the atoms are connected in the praseodymium compound (left); a chart showing the most important electron interactions (right).

June 24, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Make an Elemental Discovery

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New Oxidation State for a Rare Earth Element Could Advance Quantum and Electronic Devices

The devices under test will include halide perovskite-based cells, a likely materials platform for next-generation solar cells.

June 24, 2025

Space Station Testing Will Evaluate Photovoltaic Materials

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Georgia Tech researchers will soon send 18 photovoltaic cells to the International Space Station for a study of how space conditions affect the devices’ operation over time.

June 18, 2025

Spring 2025 IMS Seed Grant Awards Announced

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Five interdisciplinary projects to receive IMS technical support and facility access

June 5, 2025

Army Awards Tech-Led Project $20M to Develop Aluminum Manufacturing for Hydrogen Energy Production

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The multi-year research project could make scalable off-grid power sources a reality for rural communities and the military.