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Lois Yoksoulian, physical sciences editor, University of Illinois

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Click beetle-inspired robots jump using elastic energy

June 8, 2023

Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su and colleagues found an economical and sustainable method for separating cobalt and nickel from each other for battery recycling purposes – making spent battery electrodes a secondary source of these valuable metals.

Sustainable electrochemical process could improve lithium-ion battery recycling

Courtesy: Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Solid-state batteries designed for better performance

Professor Harley Johnson, far right, the associate dean for research at the Grainger College of Engineering, joins Wooldridge and Jones outside the mobileSHIELD facility. Courtesy: Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois

University launches mobile COVID-19 testing lab

Inspired by nature, Illinois researchers developed synthetic structure-based color materials – like those found in chameleon skin – for polymer inks used in 3D printing. Courtesy Diao Research Group/University of Illinois

Discrete Manufacturing

Researchers mimic nature for fast, colorful 3D printing

Courtesy: Prof. Brian Cunningham, University of Illinois

Portable detector developed to identify pathogens in minutes

April 29, 2020

Xiuling Li, professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of Illinois. Courtesy: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois

Microchip capabilities expanded with 3D inductor technology

March 1, 2020

Courtesy: Chris Vavra, CFE Media

Polymer may help Lithium-ion batteries become self-healing, recyclable

January 5, 2020