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eMaterials Newsletters

Winter 2006

 

In This Issue:

Focus On Electronic Materials

 


Features:

 

mini-chip

Dielectric Materials for Wireless Transmission and Energy Storage

Penn State responds to the energy challenge


 

CrossOver 05

Materials Research and Life Sciences Meet at CrossOver 2005 Conference

Chemists, biologists, and physicists ponder the underlying properties at the borderline of organic and inorganic materials


 

solar cell

Stopping to Smell the Scientific Flowers: A Tour Through Tom Mallouk's Lab

The DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry and director of the Center for Nanoscalle Science offers a look at his latest research


 

8th graders

Middle School Students Take a Look at Materials: Photo Essay

Over 200 eighth graders from a Harrisburg area public school spent a day looking at materials and future transportation

Director's Message

Materials discovery and development hold a central place in the technological revolutions that have reshaped our world over the last fifty years.

 

Faculty Spotlight: Suzanne Mohney

Designing electrical contacts for improved performance

 

New Approach to Lighting Could Provide Huge Energy Savings

Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) could replace regular light bulbs, providing tremendous energy savings worldwide.

 

Visiting Japanese Scientist Studies New Materials

Visiting scientist Masato Iwasaki does research on metamaterials, an amazing man-made material

 

Papers by Penn State Nano Researchers Among Top 20 Most Read

Who are the readers of Nano Letters reading?

 

Materials Day 2006

The year's biggest materials event is coming April 10th-11th


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