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International Collaboration Powers Quest For Next-Generation Solar Cells

The next generation of solar cells, made from flexible, wearable material, may soon charge our devices on the go, or provide critical electricity when other power sources are not available, like during a natural disaster.

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Killing Corona Virus With UV Light

A personal, handheld device emitting high intensity ultraviolet light to disinfect areas by killing the Corona virus is now feasible.

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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

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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

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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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