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ct 3 Leaders: Chris Murray, Zahra Fakhraai, Karen Winey, Patrice Rannou Providing reliable electricity is critical to speeding recovery from disasters, whether they are natural or man-made in origin. Reliable electrical power is critical for communications to provide weather and security updates and to facilitate logistics from tracking missing persons…
ACT 2 Leaders: Daeyeon Lee, Mamie Coats ACT 2 Co-Leader: Catherine Picart By simply touching surfaces of common objects and materials, diseases caused by infectious surface-associated microbes can spread through human populations. Such indirect contact-mediated transmission has been documented from mundane objects like food crates, door-knobs, computer keyboards, athletic equipment,…
ACT 1 Leaders: Shu Yang, Robert Riggleman ACT 1 Co-Leader: David Riassetto Access to clean water is not assured for major swathes of humanity. In the 20th century, demand grew at twice the rate of the population. In the Malthusian catastrophe, nearly one-fifth of the world’s population lack access to clean…
ACT for the Human Habitat To enable coatings that will transform the human habitat, the three ACTs take advantage of the versatility provided by polymers, nanoparticles and their mixtures to create coatings with tailored chemistry, surface texture and function. By imbuing coatings with structure and function via tailored chemistry, surface…