A team of four College of Engineering students, one College of Earth and Mineral Sciences student and one engineering faculty member recently won the top prize in the Ben Franklin (BF) TechCelerator @ State College program.
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Your next cell phone will be harder to scratch, writes WIRED. Our glass expert John Mauro of Penn State Department of Materials Science and Engineering explains why that will also limit cracks. Mauro worked for Corning® Gorilla® Glass for 18 years developing several iterations of the famed Gorilla Glass.
The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists.
Both materials scientists and materials engineers share many things in common:
- similar training
- may perform very similar tasks in their work
- work involves analyzing data
- performing tests on materials
- alter or create new materials
There are some differences between the materials scientists and material engineers such as the focus of their work and the environment in which they work.
Through the investigation of insect surfaces, Penn State researchers have detailed a previously unidentified nanostructure that can be used to engineer stronger, more resilient water repellent coatings.
Penn State will receive more than $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy as an Energy Frontier Research Center Award. This is one of 10 awards announced in 2020, and the second EFRC awarded to Penn State researchers.
New matchbook-sized devices could convert wasted heat in our homes, offices and vehicles into an environmentally friendly source of electricity, according to a team of scientists.