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Alicyn Rhoades at Flash DSC

Fantastic plastics: Research collaboration could reshape injection molding

7/17/18

Ralph Colby has partnered with two other Penn State researchers, Alicyn Rhoades and Scott Milner, to get a better basic understanding of how plastics cool from a liquid to solid shape in injection molding. Their work, which involves some new techniques, is already helping industry partners.

ZnO-MXene schematic

Sintering atomically thin materials with ceramics now possible

6/29/18

For the first time, researchers have created a nanocomposite of ceramics and a two-dimensional material, opening the door for new designs of nanocomposites with such applications as solid-state batteries, thermoelectrics, varistors, catalysts, chemical sensors and much more.

The Art of Discovery

'Art of Discovery' booth to bring together art and science at Arts Fest

6/25/18

Join Penn State at “The Art of Discovery,” the University’s booth at the Arts Festival, to learn how art detectives use technology to solve art history mysteries; make your own handmade paints the way early humans did hundreds of thousands of years ago; learn about the bizarre science behind zombie ants; explore mankind’s relationship to plastics, and more.

An example of a stochastic flaw observed in Ti-6Al-4V PBFAM builds after HIP

Penn State to lead $1.4M grant to probe flaws in metal additive manufacturing

6/14/18

A team led by Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the Center for Innovative Processing thru Direct Digital Deposition, has received a $1.4 million grant by the Air Force Research Laboratory to examine the random flaws that arise during the process of powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

Jeff Fortin

In Touch With: Jeff Fortin on Industry Partnerships

6/11/18

Jeff Fortin, director of Penn State's Office of Industrial Partnerships, speaks about the University's brand-new building at Innovation Park and how the companies that occupy it will benefit the University and the state.

Graphic representing mechanotargeting

Targeting strategy may open door to better cancer drug delivery

6/11/18

While bioengineers have long used chemical properties of a cell to deliver treatment drugs, a team of Penn State researchers suggest they can use the mechanical properties of diseased cells, such as metastatic cancer cells, to help improve delivery of drug treatments to the targeted cells. The mechanotargeting may one day lead to improved cancer treatments.

Red brick building in New Kensington

Retrofitting roofs in Pennsylvania's 'Rust Belt'

6/5/18

Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering, was awarded a $25,000 grant from Penn State’s Institutes of Energy and the Environment to design and test a new roofing composite. The project is part of a cross-institutional, multidisciplinary initiative led by Penn State New Kensington’s Corner Launchbox focused on refreshing the community’s image and economy.

ceramic foam

Flexible, highly efficient multimodal energy harvesting

5/21/18

A 10-fold increase in the ability to harvest mechanical and thermal energy over standard piezoelectric composites may be possible using a piezoelectric ceramic foam supported by a flexible polymer support, according to Penn State researchers.

Health and the Environment Seed Grant Program

Human Health and the Environment seed grant recipients announced

5/21/18

Human Health and the Environment seed grants for 2018 have been awarded to eight interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers. The seed grants were funded through a collaboration of Penn State Institutes and the College of Medicine, which collectively contributed more than $400,000.

Nick Gilson with IST 412 students

IST class works with industry leaders to pioneer world's first smart snowboard

5/7/18

Students in the College of Information Sciences and Technology could change the future of a global sport, thanks to a collaboration with industry leaders. Along with innovative snowboard and ski manufacturing company Gilson, and world leader in power products and piezo-based actuators, sensors and devices Qortek, students in Steve Haynes’ IST 412 class are pioneering the software to support the world’s first “smart” snowboard.

Transparent metal films for smartphone, tablet and TV displays

4/24/18

A new material that is both highly transparent and electrically conductive could make large screen displays, smart windows and even touch screens and solar cells more affordable and efficient, according to a Penn State team of researchers led by Roman Engel-Herbert, associate professor of materia

Allison Beese

Beese honored for early contributions to materials research at TMS conference

4/2/18

Allison Beese, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received the 2018 Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award for exceptional promise in the field of mechanics of metallic materials and in particular, the advancement of mechanical metallurgy understanding in additive manufacturing.

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