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Low Cost, Scalable Water-Splitting Fuels The Future Hydrogen Economy

A team of scientists have come one step closer to inexpensive, clean hydrogen fuel with a lower cost and industrially scalable catalyst that produces pure hydrogen through a low-energy water-splitting process.

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Grant Focuses On 'Hydrogen Sponge' For Use In Fuel-Cell Vehicles

Finding practical hydrogen storage technologies for vehicles powered by fuel cells is the focus of a $682,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, awarded to Mike Chung.

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Investigational Cancer Compound Receives FDA Approval To Begin Human Trials

An investigational compound developed by Penn State researchers that targets and destroys cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed has been approved for phase one clinical human trials by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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2D Layered Devices Can Self-Assemble With Precision

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Squid-inspired proteins can act as programmable assemblers of 2D materials, like graphene oxide, to form hybrid materials with minute spacing between layers suitable for high-efficiency devices including flexible electronics, energy storage systems and mechanical actuators.

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Millennium Cafe Pitch Competition

The Millennium Cafe Pitch Competition

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Energy Storage Solution Combines Polymers And Nanosheets

A new, lightweight composite material for energy storage in flexible electronics, electric vehicles and aerospace applications has been experimentally shown to store energy at operating temperatures well above current commercial polymers.

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Toward A Smart Graphene Membrane To Desalinate Water

A team of researchers, has developed a graphene-based coating for desalination membranes that is more robust and scalable than current nanofiltration membrane technologies.

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Conformal Metasurface Coating Eliminates Crosstalk And Shrinks Waveguides

A team of Penn State electrical engineers have a way to simultaneously control diverse optical properties of dielectric waveguides by using a two-layer coating, each layer with a near zero thickness and weight.

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Organic/Inorganic Sulfur May Be Key For Safe Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

Now a team of Penn State engineers have a different type of lithium sulfur battery that could be more efficient, less expensive and safer.

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Because The Clothes We Wear Can Light Our Way

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Every culture on the planet has its ways of producing, using and communicating through its fabrics.

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