Igniting innovation - from the Yale Engineering Magazine

Published on April 14, 2025

To walk through Liangbing Hu’s lab is to find mind-boggling inventions everywhere you turn: Self-cooling paint, protective dental coating, transparent wood, super-strong wood, bouncy wood. There’s a furnace that’s hotter than the sun and batteries made from crab shells. It’s hard to keep up. It’s all the more impressive considering that Hu had just opened his lab a few weeks earlier, having recently come to Yale from the University of Maryland. Read the full story at: https://engineering.yale.edu/news-and-events/news/igniting-innovation?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Staff_4-14-2025 

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