The TuFF Age

The TuFF Age

UD researchers tackle new task in making complex material more viable for building aircraft TuFF — Tailored Universal Feedstock for Forming — is a strong, highly aligned, short-fiber composite material that can be made from many fiber and resin combinations. Created...
Urban Air Mobility

Urban Air Mobility

UD’s Center for Composite Materials hosts NASA University Leadership Initiative The University of Delaware’s Center for Composite Materials (CCM) hosted the Second Annual Review of the NASA University Leadership Initiative Composite Manufacturing Technologies...
Fine-Tuning Touch Technology

Fine-Tuning Touch Technology

UD’s Charles Dhong gets $1.9 million to develop new tactile aids Bumps and lines make up touch-based technology such as Braille. But the human sense of touch is keen enough to detect differences that are much smaller. Research by Charles Dhong and his group at the...
Controlling Catalysts

Controlling Catalysts

UD researchers report new way to boost catalyst activity Catalysts are workhorses that help reactions occur. Put to work, they transform starting materials, such as fossil fuels, biomass or even waste, into products and fuels with minimal energy. Researchers in...
Surface Exploration

Surface Exploration

$1.1 million federal grant to help UD’s Norm Wagner and STF Technologies develop invention As every inquisitive mind knows, the more we learn the more we realize how much we do not know. Sometimes we have no way to chase answers either. Sometimes we can only guess...
Epps Named ACS Fellow

Epps Named ACS Fellow

UD Engineering Prof. Thomas Epps selected for American Chemical Society 2021 Class of Fellows University of Delaware chemical engineer Thomas H. Epps, III, has been named to the American Chemical Society’s 2021 Class of Fellows. Epps, the Allan and Myra Ferguson...