University of Houston

Discovery creates a better chance for clean energy research

Physicists have discovered a new thermoelectric material offering high performance at temperatures ranging from room temperature up to 300 degrees Celsius, or about 573 degrees Fahrenheit.

n3D Biosciences

This profile summaries the activities of the privately held company n£D Biosciences in the area of 3D bioprinting.

Researchers create new flexible, transparent conductor

Researchers have developed a new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor, bringing the potential for a fully foldable cell phone or a flat-screen television that can be folded and carried under your arm closer to reality.

Research creates new opportunities from waste heat

Physicists at the University of Houston's (UH) physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovation that could boost vehicle mileage by 5 percent and power plant and industrial processing performance as much as 10 percent.

Researching the properties of piezoelectrics

A significant discovery in the area of power harvesting.

Nano-infused paint can detect strain

Rice University's fluorescent nanotube coating can reveal stress on planes, bridges, buildings

Graphene can behave like a piezoelectric material

Engineers at the University of Houston have used quantum mechanical calculations to show that by creating holes of a specific pattern in a sheet of graphene, they can make graphene behave like a piezoelectric material.

New organic batteries

Electron switch between molecules points way to new high-powered organic batteries

University of Houston scientists investigate piezoelectrics

Driven by the vision of our society one day being basically self-propelled, a team of University of Houston scientists has set out to both amplify and provoke that potential in materials known as piezoelectrics, which naturally produce electricity when literally subjected to strain.