Advancing Energy Videos Highlight Penn State Alternative Energy Research
February 7, 2011
Penn State is recognized as the leading university worldwide in the field of alternative energy research. Following are five brief videos, part of Penn State's Advancing Energy series, highlighting a small sample of the variety of cutting-edge energy research at Penn State. The topics include solar photovoltaics, advanced batteries, microbial fuel cells, and alternative diesel fuels. Click on each link to watch a video on that topic:
Penn State's Thomas Mallouk, Evan Pugh professor of materials chemistry
and physics, leads a research group that is investigating ways to
drive down the cost of solar cells, to make them more viable.
Joan
Redwing, professor of electrical engineering and materials science
at Penn State, researches ways to harness the sun's power by conducting
it through nanowires made of silicon.
Chao-Yang Wang, the William
E. Diefenderfer Chair of Mechanical Engineering and director of the
Electrochemical Engine Center at Penn State, is researching ways
of making batteries for electro- and hydro-cars.
Bruce E. Logan,
the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State, is
on the cutting edge of developing new sources of clean and renewable
energy with his microbial fuel cells, which extract energy from waste
water.
André Boehman, professor of fuel science and engineering at Penn State, speaks from his diesel combustion and emissions laboratory. His research on alternate sources of diesel fuel aims to improve the country's energy situation.
Source: Penn State Live
