LEARN ABOUT THE RICE EXPERIENCE. Boasting a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio, and a residential …Web

Rice Global provides strategic direction to Rice University on its global strategy and operations, furthers international research priorities and alliances, and contributes to a better world. Rice has developed a select number of international academic partnerships in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas that advance the frontiers of ...Web

HOUSTON – (Dec. 12, 2022) – Rice University synthetic biologists have developed a new way to study a sensory system that salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens use to sicken millions of people each year. Kathryn Brink is a 2021 graduate of Rice University's Ph.D. program in systems, synthetic and physical biology. ...Web

A coating developed at Rice University made primarily with protein from eggs that would otherwise be wasted can be used to extend the freshness of produce. Photo by Jeff Fitlow. Along with being edible, the multifunctional coating retards dehydration, provides antimicrobial protection and is largely impermeable both to water vapor to retard ...Web

He has also developed strategies for retarding chemical terrorist attacks. For pre-college ... 2012, Rice University; won the ACS Nano Lectureship Award from the American Chemical Society, 2012; was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, June, 2011; and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...Web

The discovery by mechanical engineering researchers at Rice University is described in an open-access study published in PNAS Nexus, ... Based on this method, scientists have developed other tools …Web

A photoreactor developed by Rice University's Mohite research group and collaborators achieved a 20.8% solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency. (Photo by Gustavo Raskoksy/Rice University) Rice graduate students Ayush Agrawal and Faiz Mandani are lead authors on the study alongside Fehr. The work was also authored in part by the …Web

Rice is a community of curious thinkers, passionate dreamers and energetic doers who believe that improving the world demands more than bold thought and brave action. It takes unconventional wisdom. Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston's next generation of leaders and …Web

The May 3 issue of Science features a breakthrough bio technique developed by Rice University bioengineer Jordan Miller and colleagues. (Reprinted with permission from AAAS. Photo by Dan Sazer, Jeff Fitlow and Jordan Miller/Rice University) ... Rice University bioengineers (from left) Bagrat Grigoryan, Jordan Miller and Daniel …Web

HOUSTON – (Oct. 31, 2022) – Rice University engineers and scientists have created a sweet way for petrochemical refineries to turn a smelly byproduct into cash. An illustration of the light-powered, one-step remediation process for hydrogen sulfide gas made possible by a gold photocatalyst created at Rice University. (Image courtesy of ...Web

A process developed by Rice engineers and collaborators yields 2D halide perovskite crystal layers of ideal thickness and purity through dynamic control of the crystallization process ⎯ a key step toward ensuring device stability for optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Credit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice UniversityWeb

Rice lab tests cells with silicon anodes, alumina coatings that protect cathodes. HOUSTON – (Jan. 21, 2020) – The process of developing better rechargeable batteries may be cloudy, but there's an alumina lining. A slim layer of the metal oxide applied to common cathodes by engineers at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering ...Web

Scientists at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering have developed a readily scalable method to optimize prelithiation, a process that helps mitigate lithium loss and improves …Web

The composite, textile-based material developed by Rice University engineers uses Joule heating to decontaminate its surface of coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2 in under 5 seconds, effectively killing at least 99.9% of viruses. Wearable items made from the material can handle hundreds of uses with the potential for a single pair of gloves to ...Web

RICE INSTITUTE. 1912-1915, The Rice Institute formally opened on October 12, 1912, and classes began October 23, 1912. Rice quickly built a humanities program by offering courses in Latin, French, Spanish, German, philosophy, …Web

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HOUSTON – (Nov. 24, 2022) – Rice University researchers have engineered a key light-activated nanomaterial for the hydrogen economy. Using only inexpensive raw materials, a team from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Syzygy Plasmonics Inc. and Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment created a scalable …Web

Rice is an exceptional institution with brilliant faculty, ambitious students, strong leaders and an unmatched staff support system. In addition to providing a top-notch education to our students, we …Web

Rice University mechanical engineers have developed a textile-based energy harvesting shoe able to power assistive devices for people with disabilities. A pump worn in the shoe feeds an energy storage bladder around …Web

Rice University today introduced the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university's health and medical technology discoveries into cures.Supported by federal grants and philanthropic gifts, the new accelerator will bring together local researchers with a national network of …Web

Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to …Web

HOUSTON – (Oct. 20, 2022) –Creating a hydrogen economy is no small task, but Rice University engineers have discovered a method that could make oxygen evolution catalysis in acids, one of the most challenging …Web

Rice University's Students for Justice in Palestine organization said a Dec. 8 statement from the university that presented education resources about the ongoing conflict "muddied the waters ...Web

HOUSTON – (Aug. 17, 2020) – Carbon nanotube fibers made at Rice University are now stronger than Kevlar and are inching up on the conductivity of copper. The Rice lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Matteo Pasquali reported in Carbon it has developed its strongest and most conductive fibers yet, made of long carbon nanotubes through a ...Web

Rice University chemist James Tour, left, and graduate student Duy Luong show a sample of pure turbostratic graphene just converted through the flash graphene technique developed in Tour's …Web

Researchers from Rice University have developed a novel acid-based solvent that prevents the spaghetti effect that commonly occurs when carbon nanotubes tangle together.. As well as being ...Web

The School of Engineering at Rice university has developed a new center that will focus on promoting diversity and supporting inclusion through various efforts and initiatives including: Research and Assessment . The center will collaborate with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, the Office of Faculty Development, and Human Resources to ...Web

Rice lab's solvent simplifies industrial 3D, roll-to-roll carbon nanotube and more. HOUSTON – (April 27, 2022) – Carbon nanotubes that are prone to tangle like spaghetti can use a little special sauce to realize their full potential. Rice University scientists have come up with just the sauce, an acid-based solvent that ...Web

Liquid crystals of boron nitride nanotubes are easy to extrude into fibers through a process developed at Rice University. The fibers could be useful for aerospace and electronics applications and as energy-efficient materials. Courtesy of the Pasquali Research Group. Martí noted BNNT films would be useful as filters for ultraviolet light ...Web

A sample of Rice University's "magnetoelectric" film atop a bed of uncooked rice. Rice neuroengineers created the bi-layered film to power implantable neural stimulators that are approximately the size of a grain of rice. The film converts energy from a magnetic field directly into an electrical voltage, eliminating the need for a battery or ...Web

A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time. The "strain paint" first revealed by Rice in 2012 uses the fluorescent properties of nanotubes to show when a surface has been deformed by stress.Web

INNOVATION At Rice, we believe that innovative and visionary ideas deserve to be empowered so that they can reach the real world and make a lasting impact. In order to …Web

Rice University scientists who developed the flash Joule heating process to make graphene have found a way to produce doped graphene to customize it for applications. ... Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of …Web

COVID-19 Conducting pathbreaking research IN BRIEF New Periodic Table One hundred fifty years ago, Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table, a system for classifying …Web

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Lab makes 4D more practical. Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a new way to print shapeshifting materials. Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes of Rice's Brown School of Engineering developed a method to print objects that can be …Web

Rice University doctoral alum Joshua Chen is lead author on a study published in Nature Materials. (Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University) Rice University neuroengineer Jacob Robinson and his team designed the first magnetoelectric material that not only solves this issue but performs the magnetic-to-electric conversion …Web

Nanomedicine. Nanotechnology allows the creation and use of functionalized structures, devices, and systems that take advantage of specific properties of matter that exist at the nanoscale. The integration of biomolecular engineering, nanotechnology, and biology is expected to produce major breakthroughs in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.Web