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Ingrid Paredes

Ingrid Paredes is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. Ingrid is studying chemical engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She received her BS and MS in chemical and biochemical engineering from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in 2015 and 2016. The focus of her research was optimization and scale-up of rotary calcination of industrial catalyst powders.

At NYU, Ingrid has shifted her research focus to work with energy and efficiency issues more directly as a student of Ayash Sahu in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The focus of her work is the colloidal synthesis and characterization of environmentally friendly nanomaterials for optoelectronic devices including solar cells and LEDs.

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What really weakens lithium battery efficiency?

Novel gas chromatography technique provides understanding of the efficiency losses in lithium metal anodes

Electricity-free cooling material system shows potential

Polymer/metal combination provides the potential for inexpensive, all-day radiative cooling

Computational methods lead researchers to more precise chemistry

Chemoinformatics provides scientists with details about structure-activity relationships useful in catalysis

Novel nanosheet allows for efficient molecular sieving

Two-dimensional zeolite crystals provide new membrane materials for applications from desalination to batteries

Engineers gather from across the world for the first ever synchrotron school. Credit: Diamond Light Source

First ever UK synchrotron school attracts engineers from all over the world

Diamond Light Source opens its doors for a week-long introduction to synchrotron science

Robust, flexible thermoelectric coils power miniature devices

Novel device design suggests a way to harvest energy for small devices

All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals illuminate the future of scintillators

Perovskite nanocrystals could be used as tunable scintillators for high sensitivity X-ray detection

High-efficiency perovskite photovoltaics beat deterioration and cost

University of Oxford researchers provide a proof-of-principle study to demonstrate the possibility of commercializing concentrator photovoltaics using metal halide perovskites

Hybrid waveguide chip makes biomaterial imaging more accessible

Low-cost microfabrication of a new waveguide chip brings evanescent light microscopy to conventional light microscopes

Butterfly wings inspire nanostructured medical implants

Researchers have begun development of a new intraocular pressure sensor for glaucoma patients

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