Many people can relate to the hardship of starting a vehicle during a bitter cold morning before work. It takes a huge amount of power relative to a warm sunny day for two reasons: the mechanical parts of an engine require more power to start moving when cold (motor oil becomes viscous, like honey), and…

Work by NMG alumni Volker Presser and Sun-Hwa Yeon is featured in Live Science: Nanoporous Carbon Materials Raise Chances of Surviving Sepsis. The researchers discuss their work on mesoporous carbons derived from silicon carbide-based ceramics for ultimate use in filtering cytokines from the blood to treat sepsis. The work was first published as the cover article in…