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Materials Research Institute

Materials Research Institute

An illustration of a device that resembles a gray box with the lid lifted. On the top of the box under the lifted lid is a disk-like object.

Penn State engineer developing device that may be able to test for COVID-19

A researcher examines a glass bottle

Researchers mobilize to study COVID-19 from multiple angles

Smart Bandages

Wearable biosensors may pave the way for personalized health and wellness

3M and Penn State strike new three-year deal to drive research

3M and Penn State strike three-year deal to drive research

drawing of a 2 dimensional metal layer

Two-dimensional metals open pathways to new science

Petri dish with PSU printed in spheroids on the bottom

Machine sucks up tiny tissue spheroids and prints them precisely

Battery temperature image

High energy Li-Ion battery is safer for electric vehicles

Image of a bendable cellphone in three stages of bending.

Researchers identify breaking point of conducting material

yellow and purple blobs showing atoms

When bonding noble metals to 2D materials, interfaces matter

Barium titanate under a microscope

Cold sintering produces capacitor material at record low temperatures

diagrams of Raman scattering and electron excitation including missing band

New class of materials shows strange electron properties

An Arab-American woman stands in a laboratory.

Zoubeida Ounaies named director of Penn State Center for Living Material Systems

Man in lab holding up wound dressing sample

Academia-enterprise partnership aims to help people with diabetes

Image of wind power and energy storage.

Researchers look at novel methods to enhance battery performance

Birgitt Boschitsch at an event honoring the 30 Under 30 in Science by Forbes magazine for 2020.

Mechanical engineering alumna named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Science

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