Max Stein and Brian Iezzi analyze the fabric with photonic fibers woven into it. Photo: Marcin Szczepanski/Michigan Engineering

Photonic fibers borrow from butterfly wings to enable invisible, indelible sorting labels.

A "game changer" for clothing recycling?

Discovery could pave the way to high speed, low-energy quantum computing.

Quantum tech: Semiconductor "flipped" to insulator above room temp

U-M materials science and engineering graduate researcher Abhishek Dhyani applies ice-and-snow-repellent coating to a solar panel in Fairbanks, Alaska. Credit: Laurie Burnham, Sandia National Laboratory

Cold-weather-friendly formula foils snow/ice accumulation in Alaska test.

Spray-on coating could make solar panels snow-resistant

Two droplets of water repelled by an ultra-durable water-repellent coating. The droplet on the left is sitting on a surface that has been abraded by a machine. Photo: Kevin Golovin

This coating developed at the University of Michigan is hundreds of times more durable than its counterparts and could enable waterproofing of vehicles, clothing, rooftops and countless other surfaces.

A self-healing, water-repellant coating that's ultra durable

Jordan Occena, a U-M graduate researcher and Sunyeol Jeon, a former U-M graduate student researcher, calibrate the molecular-beam epitaxy apparatus in the Carl A. Gerstacker Building on August 3, 2015. The apparatus is used for spray painting the "magic" chemical cocktail onto blank gallium arsenide wafers. PHOTO: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

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A "game changer" for clothing recycling?

Quantum tech: Semiconductor "flipped" to insulator above room temp

Spray-on coating could make solar panels snow-resistant

A self-healing, water-repellant coating that's ultra durable

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