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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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New CRAFT Tissue Foundry provides infrastructure dedicated to bioengineering innovation

Professor Xilin Liu tests signal integrity of a neural implant prototype. Neural implants in use today activate a neuromodulation therapy that helps manage symptoms of brain disorders. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

How this U of T Engineering professor is advancing neural implants that fight brain disorders

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This new, more sustainable method for recycling lithium-ion batteries could help meet electric vehicle demand

Nicole Weckman, Paul Cadario

Paul Cadario Chair in Global Engineering will advance solutions for communities around the world