Nichole Wonderling in XRD lab

By Jamie Oberdick

Nichole Wonderling, assistant research professor and X-ray scattering manager at the Materials Research…

Ankan Dutta on laptop

By Mariah Lucas

Biodegradable electronics allow for medical devices — such as drug delivery systems, pacemakers or neural…

Thermal Emission illustration

By Ashley WennersHerron

Finely created interfaces offer new design strategies beyond conventional materials for…

Photo taken of two shapes of glass

Four projects were recently awarded Penn State Commercialization GAP funding. The GAP Fund, formerly known as the Fund for Innovation,…

Scientific image taken by a microscope

Polarized light waves spin clockwise or counterclockwise as they travel, with one direction behaving differently than the other as it…

Photo of Jake and Fabian at Whiteboard

Penn State astronomers awarded two grants to develop, fabricate and test improved diffraction optics that could allow next-…

lab image showing a needle dropping a sample into a structure

Sulfur-based compounds produced in our bodies help fight inflammation and create new blood vessels, among other responsibilities, but…

By Patricia Craig

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State research team was recently awarded a…