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With a new wearable device created by Penn State researchers,…

Penn State electrical engineering professor Aida Ebrahimi…

AI model diagram

The person staring back from the computer screen may not actually…

Everyday items, like prescription drugs, gasoline and plastics,…

A clearer understanding of how a type of brain cell known as…

For years, researchers believed that the smaller the domain size in a ferroelectric crystal, the greater the piezoelectric properties of the material. However, recent findings by Penn State researchers have raised questions about this standard rule.

For years, researchers believed that the smaller the domain size…

Defects in the lattice structure of hexagonal boron nitride can be detected with photoluminescence. Researchers shine a light with a color or energy on the material and get a different color from the defect. In addition, the figure shows hydrogen bubbles being generated from these defects that contain catalyst atoms (gray and dark spheres attached to the vacancies).

Tiny defects hold key to turning inert materials into more useful…

Materials Research Institute researchers Nichole Wonderling (left) and Josh Stapleton (right) observe Connor's work in the Millennium Science Complex

Materials Research Institute gives undergraduate student workers…