{"651699":{"#nid":"651699","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech students designing space technology for NASA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENASA\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bigidea.nianet.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 tabindex=\u0022-1\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBIG (Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing) Ideas Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E, a competition for undergraduates and graduate students to brainstorm away problems for the space agency, was dedicated to lunar dust mitigation for the 2021 version. A team of engineering students \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;Varun Bose,\u0026nbsp;John Fitton,\u0026nbsp;Zhen Liu,\u0026nbsp;Dicky Silitonga,\u0026nbsp;Kristoffer (Kris) Sjolund,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Jeffery Zhang \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;came up with a hybrid brush, which uses both an electrodynamic system (EDS) and ultraviolet (UV) technology to keep dust from building up on lunar spacesuits. One of the team\u0026#39;s advisors is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/orlando\/\u0022\u003EThomas Orlando\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who also leads the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reveals.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERadiation Effects on Volatiles and Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces (REVEALS)\u003C\/a\u003E team.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-10-14 15:57:50","changed_gmt":"2021-10-14 15:57:50","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Aaron Stebner","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/community\/georgia-tech-students-designing-space-technology\/85-8b227d44-4386-4fea-b0e6-cb422c539564","dateline":{"date":"2021-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}