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$1.25M Grant Lays Groundwork For Synthetic Tendon And Ligament Implants

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Torn ligaments and tendons are the bane of athletes and runners, difficult to heal and often taking months or years of rehab.

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Graphene Made With Lasers For Wearable Health Devices

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Graphene, hexagonally arranged carbon atoms in a single layer with superior pliability and high conductivity, could advance flexible electronics.

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A New Twist On 2D Materials May Lead To Improved Electronic, Optical Devices

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A new generation of electronics and optoelectronics may soon be possible by controlling twist angles in a particular type of bilayer 2D material used in these devices, strengthening the intrinsic electric charge that exists between the two layers.

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Monitoring Glucose Levels, No Needles Required

With a new wearable device created by Penn State researchers, less intrusive glucose monitoring could become the norm. 

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Saliva-Based COVID-19 Test May Provide At-Home Results In 30 Minutes

Penn State electrical engineering professor Aida Ebrahimi receives NIH Trailblazer Award to develop a daily testing device

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AI Behind Deepfakes May Power Materials Design Innovations, Scientists Say

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The person staring back from the computer screen may not actually exist, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) capable of generating convincing but ultimately fake images of human faces.

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Going Gold: Engineers To Investigate Using Gold As Catalyst In Hydrogenation

Everyday items, like prescription drugs, gasoline and plastics, all undergo several rounds of catalytic processes during manufacturing.

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Key To Resilient Energy-Efficient AI/Machine Learning May Reside In Human Brain

A clearer understanding of how a type of brain cell known as astrocytes function and can be emulated in the physics of hardware devices may result in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that autonomously self-repairs and consumes much less energy than the technologies currently do.

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Study Challenges Standard Ideas About Piezoelectricity In Ferroelectric Crystals

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 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.

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When A Defect Is A Good Thing

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 chemically active ones

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