Kenneth Suslick of the University of Illinois and others have been working on a groundbreaking technology which would allow you to taste food without using your tongues in the real sense. They are working on what is being touted as the artificial tongue.
The world’s first electronic tongue converts the chemical properties of what we eat [...]

John A. Rogers who is an eminent professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois has devised a way to trap the solar energy in better ways. Until now, one could only harness solar energy through solid and fixed panels that absorbed solar energy, which would later be converted to other forms [...]