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Avian-inspired engineering
CategoriesSung Hoon Kang focuses his research on how nature—plants, animals, the human body—can provide inspiration for engineering breakthroughs. Through a four-year, roughly $600,000 Air Force grant, he is studying how the lightweight, adaptable, irregular structure of bird bones could provide a blueprint for more efficient and resilient aerospace and automotive materials.
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Researchers will develop a process to melt and blend two common but difficult-to-recycle plastic polymers to create new, high-value plastics.
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These three-year awards aim to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance outstanding young investigators’ early career development, and increase opportunities for young researchers to recognize the mission of the Air Force and related challenges in science and engineering.
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Johns Hopkins mechanical engineers have developed an algorithm that “listens” to heart sound recordings and detects heart disease with an accuracy that is similar to that of expert cardiologists.
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Developed by Ishan Barman's lab, the non-invasive technique using an optical probe provides early signs of how a tumor is responding to treatment.