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Assistant Professor Shengxi Huang (left) and Wenjing Wu (right), a graduate student in Huang’s lab, examine a 2D material. Credit: Kelby Hochreither.

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

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Carbon capture and sequestration can help reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere, and a Penn State-led research team developed a modeling technique that can make identifying storage sites easier and cheaper. Credit: Creative Commons/LeJean Hardin and Jamie Payne

Pumping carbon dioxide underground may help combat the warming of the atmosphere but finding appropriate underground sites that could safely serve as reservoirs can be complicated.

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Amir Sheikhi, Penn State assistant professor of chemical engineering, found a new process to separate and recycle rare earth elements using plant cellulose, an inexpensive renewable resource found in paper, cotton and pulp, like the paper towel shown here. The vial contains the nanoparticles that are used to separate rare earth elements from old computers and circuit boards. Credit: Kate Myers

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

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In Memory Of L. Eric Cross

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Artist’s conception of nanoparticle-carrying immune cells that target tumors and release drug-loaded nanoparticles for cancer treatment. Image credit: Jian Yang, Yixue Su

Many groups are working to discover new, safer ways to deliver drugs that fight cancer to the tumor without damaging healthy cells.

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Illustration of the polar directions in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solutions where a small amount of polar nanoregions embedded in a long-range ferroelectric domain leads to dramatically enhanced piezoelectric and dielectric properties. Xiaoxing Cheng

All ferroelectric materials possess a property known as piezoelectricity in which an applied mechanical force can generate an electrical current and an applied electrical field can elicit a mechanical response.

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Take a look at the latest advances in the science of 2D technology.

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Long-Qing Chen, Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Mathematics, has been named a fellow of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), the society's highest honor.