The Rice WaTER Institute

The Rice WaTER Institute is where water, technologies, entrepreneurship, and research converge to shape the future of sustainable water treatment.

Airbus and Plastometrex partner on standardization of PIP

In a significant move to streamline mechanical testing and enhance material insights, Airbus, France, the global aerospace leader, is collaborating with Plastometrex, England, to support the standardization of profilometry-based indentation plastometry (PIP) – the innovative mechanical testing technique developed and commercialized by the Cambridge-based technology provider.

Earthquake prediction techniques provide quick insight into material failure analysis

Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and Bucknell University, have found that insight from muscovite mica and earthquake statistics can help quantify how hostile environmental interactions impact the degradation of materials used in advanced solar panels, geological carbon sequestration, and infrastructure.