Energy, Climate, & Infrastructure Security (ECIS)

Advanced Materials Laboratory

‘Zombie’ Replica Cells May Outperform Live Ones as Catalysts and Conductors

The Sandia-developed technique coats a cell’s insides with a silica solution to form a near-­‐perfect replica of its internal structure—simplifying a wide variety of commercial fabrication processes from the nano- to macro-scale. The work, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses the nanoscopic organelles and other tiny components of mammalian cells [...]

ECIS-UNM: Biomimetic Membranes for Water Purification

Clean water scarcity leads to disease, death, and often international tension. Limited clean water supplies face further stress due to its required use in a number of industrial processes. Reverse osmosis (RO) is currently the best method of desalination (making fresh water from seawater), but the energy requirements and costs for this process are tremendous [...]

American Chemical Society International-Domestic Student Summit

Undergraduate Ms. Kathleen Martin and graduate student Ms. Aruny Loch from our local New Mexico section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) have been invited to attend the ACS International-Domestic Student Summit in Raleigh, North Carolina, preceding the ACS Southeastern Regional Meeting. The team is from the University of New Mexico (UNM)—student researchers at at [...]