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Engineering professor named scholar for collaborative national lab program
20+ hour, 43+ min ago (752+ words) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. " Christopher Kube , associate professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, has been selected as a 2026 Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The Distinguished Faculty Scholar Program supports faculty members who spend eight…...
Atom-thin material could help solve chip manufacturing problem
1+ week, 6+ day ago (566+ words) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. " Making computer chips smaller is not just about better design. It also depends on a critical step in manufacturing called patterning,where nanoscale structures are carved into materials to form the circuits inside everything from smartphones to…...
Behrend chemist earns NSF grant to advance study of combustion | Penn State University
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (531+ words) Jay Amicangelo, right, a professor of chemistry at Penn State Behrend, is using a three-year, $330,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study hydrogenated radicals, which are believed to be essential to combustion.Credit: Penn State Behrend / Penn State. Creative…...
Team develops smart synthetic material inspired by octopus skin
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (454+ words) The team detailed their work in a paper published in Nature Communications. Their paper was also featured in Editors" Highlights." According to Sun, principal investigator on the project, the idea for the material was sparked by the natural biology of…...
Ideas Lab: 'AI-Powered Materials Discovery, Design and Synthesis' | Penn State University
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (196+ words) Ideas Lab: 'AI-Powered Materials Discovery, Design and Synthesis'psu.edu Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Ideas Lab: 'AI-Powered Materials Discovery, Design and Synthesis' 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM / March 26, 2026 The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) is hosting "Ideas Lab:…...
Now accepting submissions for 18th annual Materials Visualization Competition | Penn State University
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (289+ words) The Best of Show winner from the'Materials Visualization Competition (MVC17) was "Nano Soccer Balls from Nature" by Jinsol Choi, postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering.'Credit: Jinsol Choi / Penn State. Creative Commons UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. " The 18th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC18), an annual…...