Drs. Guillermo Aguilar, Heng Pan, Xingyong Song, and Stavros Kalafatis in Texas A&M’s College of Engineering have earned the prestigious distinction for their impactful contributions to the welfare of society and economic progress.

An MTO zeolite catalyst with an ultra-high initial selectivity has been discovered at a low trial-and-error cost through a machine learning (ML)-aidedworkflow. Its etheneselectivity unexpectedly exceeds 60%, presenting thehighest reported value in the field of MTO catalysis.

This study aims to develop methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) (mPEG) and silver-modified magnetite nanoparticles termed Fe3O4@mPEG-Ag NPs as efficient non-antibiotic antibacterial agents to address the growing challenge of drug-resistant bacterial infections.

Study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science Tokyo. Using cryo-electron microscopy and high-speed atomic force microscopy, they found that LGP2 binds to viral RNA and recruits MDA5 molecules, as if threading beads on a string. This creates a scaffold that facilitates the formation of a large signaling complex, which ultimately triggers an innate immune response.

The transient Pauli blocking effect is a promising way to achieve ultrafast optical switching in semiconductors. Recently, a research team from Japan successfully demonstrated broadband ultrafast optical switching in InN thin films by leveraging pump-probe transient transmittance measurements with multicolor probe lasers. They also developed a theoretical model to explain the underlying mechanism. These findings might pave the way for next-generation ultrafast optical modulators, shutters, and photonic devices in optical computing or optical communication.