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James Tour Available to Comment on Molecular Electronics Advance

More than 20 years ago, Wired featured Rice University chemist James Tour in a story about molecular electronics, then a focus of his lab. At the time, he said commercializing single molecules turned into circuits was perhaps three to five years away.

Antibody with Engineered Peptide Targets Bone Metastasis

Rice, Baylor study shows enhanced breast cancer drug could halt spread

Rusting Iron Can Be Its Own Worst Enemy

Rice team’s simulations show iron catalyzes corrosion in 'inert' carbon dioxide

When Graphene Speaks, Scientists Can Now Listen

Brothers in Rice lab find audio from graphene production contains valuable data

New Models Assess Bridge Support Repairs After Earthquakes

Rice, Texas A&M engineers simulate restoration strategies for reinforced concrete columns

Migrating Holes Help Catalysts Be Productive

Theory shows how manipulating quasiparticles could improve chemical processes

Daylong Wastewater Samples Yield Surprises

Rice method to find antibiotic-resistant genes shows limits of ‘snapshot’ samples, chlorination

Rice Flashes New Life into Lithium-Ion Anodes

Fast ‘green’ process revives essential battery components for reuse

Tropical Wildlife Follow the Same Daily Patterns Worldwide

Isolation no barrier as rainforest animals follow the daily dictates of time and temperature

Rice Refines Analysis of MRI Contrast Agents

Engineers dig deep to detail magnetic mechanism of gadolinium-based agents

Acs Taps Rice, Shell for Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award

Pedro Alvarez, Michael Wong, Shell’s Mike Reynolds share honor for project to remediate, reuse fracking water

Growing Pure Nanotubes Is a Stretch, but Possible

Rice theorists show how tight ‘diet’ could produce single-chirality carbon nanotubes

Engineers Go Further with the Flow to Model Moving Cars and Tires

Mechanical engineers at Rice University and Waseda University in Tokyo have dramatically advanced their computational fluid dynamics models of airflow around a moving car and its tires.

Seizures Happen Like Clockwork — but Depend on the Clock

Rice, UCSF statistical models show rhythmicity of seizures likely changes with age and common triggers

Bacterial Sensors Send a Jolt of Electricity When Triggered

Scientists and engineers at Rice University say the same is true for the environment. If a chemical spill in a river goes unnoticed for 20 minutes, it might be too late to remediate.

Bird’s Enzyme Points Toward Novel Therapies

Rice University scientists imbue cells with ‘noncanonical’ pathway to make own drugs

RNA-Editing Tool a Fast, Sensitive Test for COVID-19

Rice, Connecticut labs engineer Cas13 to simplify the identification of coronavirus

Optical Rule Was Made to Be Broken

Rice engineers’ formula IDs materials for virtual reality, 3D displays

Powering an ‘Arm’ with Air Could Be Mighty Handy

Walking feeds pressure to pneumatic robots that could help those with disabilities

2D Boundaries Could Create Electricity

Rice lab leads effort to generate thickness-independent piezoelectricity in atom-thick materials