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New forensic fingerprinting approach retrieves elusive prints
Forensics experts can't always retrieve fingerprints from objects, but a new coating process developed by Penn State professors may change that. The process reveals hard-to-develop fingerprints on nonporous surfaces without altering the chemistry of the print.
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Penn State Impact: Advancing Surgery
A team of Penn State researchers is advancing the development of micro-scale surgical instruments that lead to better patient care and lower health-care costs. Dr. Mary Frecker and a group of expert mechanical engineers, nano-particle materials scientists and physicians are laying the foundation for a new generation of less invasive, more effective surgical tools and procedures.
Penn State Impact: Micro-Medical Frontiers
Penn State materials researchers are at the forefront of new technologies for micro and nanoscale medical devices for ultrasound imaging and drug delivery.
Penn State's Thomas E. Mallouk discusses solar energy research materials
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.
Penn State professor Joan Redwing discusses harnessing solar energy on a very small scale
Joan Redwing, professor of electrical engineering and materials science at Penn State, researches ways to harness the sun's power by conducting it through wires made of silicon.
Bruce Logan of Penn State developing microbial fuel cells as new sources of clean, renewable energy
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.
Penn State's Chao-Yang Wang explains research toward more efficient battery power
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.
André Boehman of Penn State seeks new ways to use fossil fuels efficiently
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.
Petro-SAP Powder
At the Pennsylvania State University, Dr. T.C. "Mike" Chung and Dr. Xuepei Yuan have developed and patented a new polyolefin-based petroleum super-absorbent (Petro-SAP) that can effectively transform a maritime oil spill into a floating solid, ready for collection (recovery) and refining as regular crude oil (no waste in natural resources and no disposal issues).
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Petro-SAP Pellet
At the Pennsylvania State University, Dr. T.C. "Mike" Chung and Dr. Xuepei Yuan have developed and patented a new polyolefin-based petroleum super-absorbent (Petro-SAP) that can effectively transform a maritime oil spill into a floating solid, ready for collection (recovery) and refining as regular crude oil (no waste in natural resources and no disposal issues).
Clean removal of bitumen from tar sands
An environmentally friendlier method of separating oil from tar sands has been developed by a team of researchers at Penn State.
Contractors reach milestone in Millennium Science Complex construction
In what is traditionally called a topping-off ceremony, contractors hoisted the final I-beam into its place Tuesday, April 6, on the Millennium Science Complex, now under construction at Penn State's University Park campus.
Millennium Science Complex
Designed by the internationally renowned firm of Rafael Viñoly Architects, this 275,000 square foot building will bring together both materials researchers and life scientists from the Materials Research Institute and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Through this interface, the Millennium Science Complex will foster collaborations in the developing convergence of materials and biomedical engineering.