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Jainendra Jain named 2025 Wolf Prize laureate in physics

March 10, 2025

Illustration of light emission from a molybdenum diselenide nanodot embedded in tungsten diselenide.

‘Nanodot’ control could fine-tune light for sharper displays, quantum computing

March 07, 2025

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Penn State to establish new advanced semiconductor lab

February 26, 2025

Illustration of a nanomaterial.

Material’s ‘incipient’ property could jumpstart fast, low-power electronics

February 25, 2025

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Penn State rises in NSF Higher Education Research and Development rankings

February 21, 2025

Materials Visualization Competition (MVC16) Best of Show winner from 2024 was “A cryo microparticle” by Saman Zavari, graduate student, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State.

Now accepting submissions for annual Materials Visualization Competition

February 19, 2025

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Applications now open to faculty for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program for 2026-27

February 18, 2025

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New smart sensor takes the pain out of wound monitoring

February 05, 2025

an illustration displaying a human body surrounded by graphical representations regenerative medicine through nanotechnology

Novel ‘living’ biomaterial aims to advance regenerative medicine

February 03, 2025

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Materials can remember a sequence of events in an unexpected way

January 29, 2025

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NSF CAREER Award supports pursuit of ‘soft’ solutions for spinal cord injuries

January 23, 2025

An electronic sensing device on a white background.

Biosensing platform simultaneously detects vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2

January 21, 2025

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Graduate student’s materials science research recognized by national society

January 10, 2025

Pictured is an RF magnetron sputtering system, one of the deposition tools used to make the films in this study

Proximity effect: Method allows advanced materials to gain new property

January 08, 2025

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$3M grant targets integrated semiconductor for smarter, greener electronics

December 11, 2024

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Tracking immune cell brain cancer therapies with ultrasound

December 06, 2024

Image showing atoms being "painted" onto a substrate

Straining a material’s atomic arrangement may make for cleaner, smarter devices

December 05, 2024

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Materials Research Institute names 2024 Roy Award winners

December 03, 2024

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New bioprinting technique creates functional tissue 10x faster

December 03, 2024

Image showing hydrogels

Squishy microgels in granular biomaterials confine and direct cell behavior

November 13, 2024

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Russ Messier, pioneer in thin films research, remembered

November 01, 2024

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New technique allows technicolor imaging of degenerative joint disease

October 25, 2024

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Room temperature electrical control could heat up future technology development

October 24, 2024

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EMS faculty member receives DOE Early Career Research Award

October 17, 2024

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Two Penn State physics professors elected as Americal Physical Society Fellows

October 16, 2024

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Q&A: Can electricity treat high blood pressure?

October 11, 2024

Illustration of a human head with a network behind it

A matter of taste: Electronic tongue reveals AI inner thoughts

October 09, 2024

ions and molecules organize at interfaces, enriching our new understanding and control of battery surfaces.

Revamping an old technique to see battery design in a new way

October 04, 2024

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$1.5M NSF grant to launch AI-designed biosensor research project

October 02, 2024

Climate Solutions Accelerator

Climate Consortium workshop leads to speak at Millennium Café this fall

September 27, 2024

This artistic illustration depicts the unique arrangement of atoms in high-entropy thermoelectric materials.

Waste heat to green energy: Approach boosts thermoelectric generator efficiency

September 24, 2024

Image of triangular 2d semiconductor on a substrate

Water-free manufacturing approach could help advance 2D electronics integration

September 20, 2024

Registration now open for Penn State’s marquee materials research event

September 12, 2024

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Senior vice president for research provides updates on Penn State Research Foundation

September 05, 2024

DOE announces $14.5 million award to Energy Frontier Research Center 3DFeM

September 04, 2024

A person wearing a face heat shield molds glass from a forge

Ecofriendly glass invented at Penn State secures partner for product development

September 03, 2024

Nominations sought for award recognizing pioneering materials research

August 19, 2024

Penn State awards five new seed grants to support inter-institutional research

August 15, 2024

Factory floor at a semiconductor facility

Grant to help Penn State build semiconductor workforce in Pennsylvania

August 09, 2024

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Atoms in advanced alloys find preferred neighbors when solidifying

August 05, 2024

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Penn State’s College of Ag Sciences, Phospholutions forge strategic partnership

August 01, 2024

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‘Kink state’ control may provide pathway to quantum electronics

July 25, 2024

Coin cell battery samples are arranged in plastic bags on a lab table.

Making rechargeable batteries more sustainable with fully recyclable components

July 08, 2024

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Nichole Wonderling awarded prestigious fellowship

July 02, 2024

A sensor conforms to a finger as the finger bends.

Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices

June 26, 2024

A split screen image of an ABB robot 3D printing mycelium-based composites at left and a close-up view of the extrusion nozzle while printing at right.

Architecture team receives grant to study 3D-printed sustainable materials

June 03, 2024

Danielle Hickey

Penn State professor awarded American Chemical Society grant

May 30, 2024

Three side-by-side photos, two showing gold foil on an arm and one with black lines on a gold background

Rewritable, recyclable ‘smart skin’ monitors biological signals on demand

May 30, 2024

Jake McCoy and Fabien Grisé

$4M NASA grants to support UV and X-ray astronomy

May 20, 2024

Ceramic sculpture, shaped like half of a circle with multiple holes in the structure.

'Research Art Collection' showcase in Old Main

May 14, 2024

silicon wafer of microchips on production line

Q&A: How can advanced chip packaging help redesign the future of semiconductors?

May 07, 2024

Clive Randall named Evan Pugh University Professor

May 03, 2024

A bust of Penn State's first president Evan Pugh located in the main lobby of Old Main.

Five faculty members honored with Evan Pugh University Professorships

May 03, 2024

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‘Better than graphene’ material development may improve implantable technology

May 03, 2024

An individual in a lab wearing protective glasses and gloves handles a sample of a coin cell battery.

Cold sintering may rescue plastic, ceramics, battery components from landfills

May 02, 2024

Scanning electron microscope image of a ‘strained’ photonic crystal

Making light ‘feel’ a magnetic field like an electron would

April 23, 2024

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Six Penn State faculty elected to 2023 cohort of AAAS Fellows

April 18, 2024

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Penn State, Morgan Advanced Materials partner to improve semiconductor materials

April 17, 2024

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‘Surprising’ hidden activity of semiconductor material spotted by researchers

April 03, 2024

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Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance to drive industrial-scale semiconductor work

April 03, 2024

Two blue and orange glowing butterflies with circuit wings

Butterfly-inspired AI technology takes flight

April 01, 2024

Orange tube-like structures spread across a brown background.

Two keys needed to crack three locks for better engineered blood vessels

March 21, 2024

Image of brochosomes, soccer-ball shaped spheroids that are produced by leafhoppers.

Backyard insect inspires invisibility devices, next gen tech

March 18, 2024

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New device positions Penn State at the forefront of university research reactors

March 13, 2024

Gray-scale electron microscopic image of nanoparticles on left, blue and yellow image of cancer cells and nanoparticles on right

GPS nanoparticle platform precisely delivers therapeutic payload to cancer cells

March 11, 2024

Zhen Bi stands on dock with ocean behind

Penn State physicist Zhen Bi receives 2024 NSF CAREER Award

March 11, 2024

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