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‘A Lume in every room’: U of T Engineering alumni are reimagining home robotics — starting with your laundry

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Rayla Myhal receives Honorary Alumni Award

In this prototype carbon capture apparatus, a solution of potassium hydroxide is wicked up into polypropylene fibres; circulating air evaporates the water in the solution, concentrating it to very high levels. The white crystals are nearly pure potassium carbonate, formed from carbon removed directly from air. (photo by Dongha Kim)

New ‘rock candy’ technique offers a simpler, less costly way to capture carbon directly from air

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Pei-Yu Kuo, a PhD candidate in Forestry, and Rana Sodhi, Senior Research Associate and adjunct professor (ChemE), work on the a new secondary ion mass spectrometer at the Characterization of Advanced Materials (OCCAM). (Photo: Neil Ta)

OCCAM: Advancing research from the depths of the ocean to outer space

May 12, 2016

Shrey Sindhwani, Abdullah Syed and their supervisor, Professor Warren Chan, have modified and improved a technique to turn organs transparent, allowing them to track the locations of nanoparticles in the body. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Tracking nanoparticles with transparent organs to help fight cancer and other diseases

May 11, 2016

Five U of T Engineering researchers receive Connaught Innovation Awards

May 10, 2016

Two innovative biomedical devices from the Hammers & Nails Initiative

April 29, 2016

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