Rice University Research Repository


The Rice Research Repository (R-3) provides access to research produced at Rice University, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, research center publications, datasets, and academic journals. Managed by Fondren Library, R-3 is indexed by Google and Google Scholar, follows best practices for preservation, and provides DOIs to facilitate citation. Woodson Research Center collections, including Rice Images and Documents and the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice, have moved here.



 

Recent Submissions

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Responsible Collaboration Through Appropriate Research Security: A Workshop To Discuss and Study the Emergent Discipline of Research on Research Security
(James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University, 2024) Dao, Tam K.; Evans, Kenneth M.; Shannon, Michael D.; Bronk, Christopher; Neuhauser, Claudia; Roberts, Evan; Haselkorn, Mark P.; Ribes, David; Shih, Tommy; Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program
This workshop report offers a summary of "Responsible Collaboration Through Appropriate Research Security" held at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in May 2024. The report discusses challenges and opportunities to the field of research on research security (RoRS), and provides recommendations to guide the National Science Foundation's new RoRS program.
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Assembly of planar chiral superlattices from achiral building blocks
(2024-08-27) Jones, Matthew R.; Cheng, Zhihua; Xing, Yuchen; Rice University; United States Patent and Trademark Office
The spontaneous assembly of chiral structures from building blocks that lack chirality is fundamentally important for colloidal chemistry and has implications for the formation of advanced optical materials. Here, we find that purified achiral gold tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles assemble into two-dimensional superlattices that exhibit planar chirality under a balance of repulsive electrostatic and attractive van der Waals and depletion forces. A model accounting for these interactions shows that the growth of planar structures is kinetically preferred over similar three-dimensional products, explaining their selective formation.
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Flash joule heating synthesis method and compositions thereof
(2024-08-06) Tour, James Mitchell; Luong X, Duy; Kittrell, Wilbur Carter; Chen, Weiyin; Rice University; United States Patent and Trademark Office
Methods for the synthesis of graphene, and more particularly the method of synthesizing graphene by flash Joule heating (FJH). Such methods can be used to synthesize turbostratic graphene (including low-defect turbostratic graphene) in bulk quantities. Such methods can further be used to synthesize composite materials and 2D materials.
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Location information from a receiver in a wireless network
(2024-08-27) Mittleman, Daniel; Knightly, Edward; Rice University; Brown University; United States Patent and Trademark Office
A multi-frequency wireless access device including a first waveguide having a pair of parallel metal plates with open sides and a slot in one of the metal plates, the slot permitting radiation to leak out, the leaked radiation illuminating a range of angles depending on frequency.
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Passive and single-viewpoint 3D imaging system
(2024-08-27) Wu, Yicheng; Boominathan, Vivek; Chen, Huaijin; Sankaranarayanan, Aswin C.; Veeraraghavan, Ashok; Rice University; United States Patent and Trademark Office
A method for a passive single-viewpoint 3D imaging system comprises capturing an image from a camera having one or more phase masks. The method further includes using a reconstruction algorithm, for estimation of a 3D or depth image.