Last month, hackers gained remote access to a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida. Once in the system, they increased the level of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, in the city’s water supply from around 100 parts per million to a dangerously high level of 11,100 parts per million. Thankfully, a worker foiled… Read More
A technology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, lies at the heart of a startup company creating next-generation medical devices for flexible endoscopy. EndoTheia harnesses the power of intelligently micro-machined materials to create highly dexterous manipulators, adding flexibility that increases therapeutic yields in complex endoscopic procedures. The company’s devices supplement widely used and commercially available… Read More
UT researcher seeks to make glass fiber-based composites more sustainable. Can the composites industry become more circular? One researcher from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is working to answer this question for fiberglass-based composites — which represent over 90 percent of the entire composites industry. “There is a lot of push on carbon fiber recycling,… Read More
