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Semiconductors and Sustainability
Online Presentations | 05 Jan 2024 | Contributor(s):: John Howater
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Phase Diagrams & Pb-free Low-temperature Solder Materials in Microelectronics
Teaching Materials | 24 May 2023 | Contributor(s):: Carol Handwerker, Congying Wang, Alejandro Strachan
This module enables students to use the Thermo-Calc Educational Package in nanoHUB to work with concepts and skills for interpreting and using phase diagrams to design low temperature solders for microelectronics applications. You can directly run the Thermo-Calc Educational Package in...
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Manufacturing for a Sustainable Future
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2022 | Contributor(s):: John W. Sutherland
We face an array of environmental and social challenges: waste discharges to our waters, air, and lands; inequities in justice; shortages of water, material, and energy resources; unhealthy working conditions; climate change; employment and food insecurity. These concerns make it ever clearer...
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Manufacturing for a Sustainable Future Q&A
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2022 | Contributor(s):: John W. Sutherland
This is the extensive Q&A discussion which followed the presentation. The presentation is available here.We face an array of environmental and social challenges: waste discharges to our waters, air, and lands; inequities in justice; shortages of water, material, and energy resources;...
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John W. Sutherland
Dr. John W. Sutherland is presently Professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) at Purdue University. Sutherland received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in...
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NEWT Center
At the NEWT Engineering Research Center, we use nanotechnology to develop water treatment systems. Our goal is to protect human lives and support sustainable economic development with our technology.
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Sandra Cruz-Pol
https://sites.google.com/view/sandraxpol/bio
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Nathan Killoran
Nathan holds a MSc in Mathematics from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Physics from the University of Waterloo. He specializes in quantum computing, deep learning, and quantum optics.
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Bridging the Gap Between Large and Small: Thermofluids and Nanoengineering for the Water-Energy Nexus
Online Presentations | 05 Nov 2019 | Contributor(s):: David M. Warsinger
Nanomaterial self-assembly techniques can be guided by thermofluids designs to make macro-scale membrane systems with photonic properties for catalysis and solar distillation.
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K-12 Educational Module on Sustainability: What's Inside a Hard Drive?
Teaching Materials | 20 Jun 2019 | Contributor(s):: Congying Wang
This lesson is originally designed as an outreach activity for high school students, and it can be easily transformed and integrated into current K-12 courses. In this educational module, students will learn the concepts of sustainability, electronics wastes (e-wastes), and life cycles via the...
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Can We Save Lives with Thermodynamics? Nanoengineering and Thermofluids for the Water-Food-Energy Nexus
Online Presentations | 27 Apr 2017 | Contributor(s):: David M. Warsinger
Climate change, degrading water resources, and economic and population growth are increasing the need for new science and technologies at the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. In enabling new and improved technologies to tackle these issues, new nanomaterials designed with systems-level thermodynamics...
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Congying Wang
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Tailoring Biomass to Fit the Biofuels Pipeline
Online Presentations | 10 Oct 2016 | Contributor(s):: Maureen McCann, Nicholas C. Carpita
Second-generation biofuels will be derived from lignocellulosic biomass using biological catalysts to convert the carbon in plant cell wall polysaccharides to ethanol or other biofuels. The Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio) is a DOE-funded Energy Frontier...
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Inclusion of Sustainability Aspects in Technician and Undergraduate Education Programs
Online Presentations | 18 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: Deb Newberry, Nano-Link Center for Nanotechnology Education
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Energy and Sustainability Challenges
Online Presentations | 21 Apr 2015 | Contributor(s):: Peter B. Littlewood
This talk will take a physicist's perspective on some of the energy and sustainability challenges faced by the planet. I will stress the need for thinking using robust principles to guide the investigation. These include: to realise that global sum rules are much more reliable than...