Intensive three-week customer discovery program enters its third year at UT. Applications are open through September 29 for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) fall 2019 regional workshop series. The three-week customer-discovery program will be held October 3, 10 and 17 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Teams of two to four people (read more)
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UT Researcher’s Nonwoven Fabrics Protect the Health of More Than a Billion People
Peter Tsai may not be a household name, but odds are you know his work. The recently retired research faculty member of Material Sciences is the architect behind the essential technology in N95 respirators. These respirators are required by OSHA when working in dusty environments to remove at least 95% of submicron particles, and recommended (read more)
UTRF Inventor Spotlight: Dr. Brian Long
Unlocking the Potential of Polymers Did you know that the thin plastic garment sleeves protecting your dry cleaning hold the potential to be bullet proof? It all depends on tweaks to the plastic’s structural properties at the molecular level – and that’s University of Tennessee Associate Professor Brian Long’s specialty. In the Department of Chemistry, (read more)