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Assistant Professor Shengxi Huang will explore fundamental research that could drastically enhance sensors, paving the way for more…

Pumping carbon dioxide underground may help combat the warming of the atmosphere but finding appropriate underground sites that could…

Penn State researcher details a new nanotechnology to separate neodymium using plant cellulose, which is found in paper, cotton and…

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

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…

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

A clearer understanding of how a type of brain cell known as astrocytes function and can be emulated in the physics of hardware devices…

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The person staring back from the computer screen may not actually exist, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) capable of generating…