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Online Science Outreach Helps Fill A Void During COVID-19 Quarantine

Penn State’s Center for Nanoscale Science releases a new website full of family-friendly, at-home science experiments

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A Simple Device To Monitor Health Using Sweat

A device to monitor health conditions in the body using a person’s sweat has been developed by researchers at Penn State and Xiangtan University.

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An Understanding Of Relaxor Ferroelectric Properties Could Lead To Advances In Multiple Fields

3D image depicting chirality with molecules

A new fundamental understanding of the behavior of polymeric relaxor ferroelectrics could lead to advances in flexible electronics, actuators and transducers, energy storage, piezoelectric sensors and electrocaloric cooling.

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New Insights Into Van Der Waals Materials Found

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Layered van der Waals materials are of high interest for electronic and photonic applications, according to researchers at Penn State and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Penn State Awarded An Energy Frontier Research Center Grant Worth Over $10 Million

The Department of Energy has awarded an Energy Frontier Research Center Award to Penn State.

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New Advances In Superconductivity

The goal of room temperature superconductivity took a small step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists.

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Penn State To Lead $30 Million University Research Alliance

The Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded a combined total of $51.1 million to two university research alliances.

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Highly Sensitive Dopamine Detector Uses 2D Materials

illustration of a highly sensitive dopamine detector

A supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result in too much or too little dopamine, according to a group led by Penn State.

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Locust Swarm Could Improve Collision Avoidance

A team of engineers is creating a low-power collision detector that mimics the locust avoidance response and could help robots, drones and even self-driving cars avoid collisions.

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An Improved Wearable, Stretchable Gas Sensor Using Nanocomposites

A stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing has been developed and tested by researchers at Penn State, Northeastern University and five universities in China.

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