News: Research

New plastic has rigid and stretchy sections inspired by living things.

Can complex data be hidden inside chemical structures?

Learn more about Devleena Samanta's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Chemistry in fall 2021 and what her research focuses on.

Clean energy research from UT Austin scientists holds disruptive potential. It comes just as new technologies are needed most.

Biophysicist Dave Thirumalai and his team developed a computer model that helps explain how certain kinds of RNA molecules can clump together in a way that is correlated with neurological disorders

Chemists and physicists are making steady progress on developing new materials that may prove key for our future energy needs.

A new sodium-based battery material is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a lithium-ion battery and might deliver more energy than current battery technologies.

The first theoretical model of condensin, a molecular machine involved in packing and unpacking chromosomes, accurately reproduces all known experiments with just two parameters.

In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge.