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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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It may look more like Junk Yard Wars than high-tech, but U of T researcher Illan Kramer's (pictured) device is the first step towards spray-on solar cells.

New technique offers spray-on solar power

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National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women: Letter from ONWiE & CODE

Zheng-Hong Lu (MSE) searches for affordable, efficient, energy-friendly lighting in the form of organic LEDs (Photo: Christopher Wahl).

How organic LEDs are the future of sustainable, affordable lighting

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A tribute to Dean Emeritus Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos