A quantum mechanical transport phenomenon demonstrated for the first time in synthetic, atomically-thin layered material at room temperature could lead to novel nanoelectronic circuits and devices, according to researchers at Penn State and three other U.S. and international universities.
Khanjan Mehta is a man with a mission -- solving the problems that make it so difficult to provide energy, clean drinking water, food security, and health care to some of the poorest nations on Earth. As the founding director of HESE -- Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship -- in the College of Engineering, Mehta leads a group of engaged undergraduates who are designing new technologies and, equally important, figuring out how to get those technologies into the hands of the people who need them.
A curriculum in density-functional theory (DFT) for graduate students in STEM fields is the goal of a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $3 million over five years awarded to a team of Penn State faculty.
The Materials Characterization Laboratory and the Materials Research Institute have recently entered an agreement to provide access to an additional materials structure database.
Thomas Kelly, Division Vice President for Innovation and New Technologies at CAMECA Instrument Inc., has been selected the 2015 Taylor Lecturer. He will deliver the keynote talk “Atomic-Scale Tomography: An Achievable Vision” as part of the 2015 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials. His talk will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 23, in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Freeman Auditorium.
Vice President for Research Neil Sharkey has named Penn State electroceramics scientist Clive Randall as the new director of the Penn State Materials Research Institute.
When it comes to engineering single-layer atomic structures, "minding the gap" will help researchers create artificial electronic materials one atomic layer at a time, according to a team of materials scientists.
Penn State faculty, staff and student competitors from the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Huck Institutes and the Materials Research Institute will vie for Olympic gold July 23 on the lawn of the Millennium Science Complex on the University Park campus.
Additive manufacturing, sometimes known as 3D printing, is exactly what it sounds like. Working from a computer-generated model, a "printer" puts down layer after layer of material, adding layers until the design is realized in a finished part.
Admittedly, there's a lot of hype attached to this new technology. But there's plenty of real-world promise, too. Penn State's Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition, known as CIMP-3D, aims to be a world-class resource for that resurgence.
Carlo Pantano, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has served as director of Penn State's Materials Research Institute since 1998. This month, Pantano will step down as director to return full-time to research and teaching. In a recent interview with Matt Swayne of Research Communications, he expressed his excitement about the future of materials science, and the cross-pollination happening at Penn State's Millennium Science Complex.
Michael Lanagan, professor of engineering science and mechanics and associate director of the Center for Dielectric Studies in the Materials Research Institute, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program.
A new Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, supported by the National Science Foundation and co-located at Penn State and North Carolina State University, will build on and expand the research capabilities of Penn State's long-running Center for Dielectrics Studies.
The Penn State Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute are now accepting submissions for the sixth annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC6), a scientific visual and artistic competition created to celebrate the quality of research in materials at Penn State.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants totaling $3 million for two nanoparticle research projects in which Penn State bioengineer Jian Yang is co-principal investigator. Drawing upon biology and materials science, the researchers will develop new polymers designed to deliver targeted cancer drugs and repair damaged arteries.
A wide range of biologically inspired materials may now be possible by combining protein studies, materials science and RNA sequencing, according to an international team of researchers.
