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Since 2017, Ana de la Fuente Duran has had her eyes fixed on one goal: Becoming a materials scientist.
Penn State’s total research expenditures reached a record high of $1.239 billion in fiscal year 2022-23, a 14%* increase from the previous year and driven by a $98 million jump in federal funding for research — by far the largest in the University’s history. This funding enables Penn State faculty, staff and students to conduct cutting-edge research and drive innovation that positively impact people’s lives, both locally and around the globe.
Lauren Zarzar, associate professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, has been named one of seven recipients for the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship.
Materials research at Penn State is guiding big changes for our future. Below is a sample of videos related to research that MatSE students, faculty, and researchers are involved in at verious facilities. For more videos, visit and follow these YouTube channels:
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering - https://www.youtube.com/@PennStateMatSE
- Materials Research Institute - https://www.youtube.com/@PennStateMRI
- College of Earth and Mineral Sciences - https://www.youtube.com/c/PennStateCollegeofEarthandMineralSciences
Tim Hsu, Ph.D
President & CEO, Polymics, Ltd.
2215 High Tech Rd,
State College, PA, 16803, USA TEL: 1 (814) 357-5860
Web: www.polymics.com
Tim Hsu, Ph.D., is the founder and president of Polymics, Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of high-performance polymers and compounds. He received his Ph.D. degree in polymer science from Penn State.
Polymics is a vertically integrated supplier of high temperature and specialty polymer resin, compound as well as semi-finished goods for various industrial applications. Polymics focuses specifically on the development and manufacturing of novel high temperature Polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymers and alloys to meet increasingly demanding high temperature and high pressure performance requirements in various critical industrial applications. In addition to the PAEK focuses, Polymics specializes in the manufacturing and development of other high temperature polymers such as Polyarylethersulfone (PAES), Polyimides (PI), and Polybenioic imidazole (PBI) as well.
In 2017, Polymics and Penn State signed a joint development agreement in the commercialization of i-petrogel technologies. Hsu has subsequently worked with Mike Chung, Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State in the commercialization of functional polyolefin polymer platform including the use of reactive compounding which has significant impact in critical areas such as electronic and energy storage materials. He has published sixty articles in referred journals and has been issued ten patents.
Penn State students, faculty and alumni entrepreneurs joined with venture firms and startup founders from across the United States for the 2023 Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference, held Oct. 16-17 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey.
Six Penn State graduate students received a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, and the Office of Naval Research, under the direction of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
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