The beauty of engineering
For a nine-week extracurricular course on the process of product development, the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking collaborated with L’Oréal to give students a chance to develop new beauty products. For the course, student teams designed new products, with a focus on innovations in hair care and color. Throughout the course, students heard from L’Oréal’s experts about research and innovation, operational design, business development, and human resources. All seven teams presented their products at a pitch-off event. For their product, “OmbréYour Way,” Team Luna took the first-place prize of $2,000.
Air pollution: it’s all in the details
Yale researchers found that a type of air pollution is much more complicated than previously thought. Led by Drew Gentner, assistant professor of chemical & environmental engineering, the researchers used high-powered equipment to analyze air samples and produced a detailed look at organic aerosols—airborne particles that have a significant presence in the atmosphere and pose risks to health and climate. The researchers noted that determining molecular formulas of these particles with more accuracy is key to reducing pollution, since knowing what harmful elements are in the air is critical to finding ways to eliminate them.
An inspiring anemone
A team of researchers developed a method for efficiently treating water, inspired by Actinia, a sea organism that ensnares its prey with its tentacles. The research, a collaboration of the labs of Yale’s Menachem Elimelech and Huazhang Zhao of Peking University, used a material known as a nanocoagulant to rid water of contaminants. By removing a broad range of contaminants in a single step, the discovery promises to significantly improve on centuries-old methods for water treatment. Actinia, an anemone with tentacles that retract while resting and extend while catching its prey, served as the model for the nanocoagulant.
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