A lithium-ion battery that is safe, has high power and can last for 1 million miles has been developed by a team in Penn State’s Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center.
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An effective response to the emergence and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus, known in the scientific community as SARS-CoV-2, includes the critical role of the scientific community in assessing key knowledge gaps with research focused on improving prevention, diagnostics, treatment, infection control practices and public health policies. Anyone at Penn State with relevant expertise and a potentially impactful idea should apply for funding.
Research out of Penn State Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Penn State College of Engineering is making a car-battery dream closer to reality.
An improved method to predict the temperature when plastics change from supple to brittle, which could potentially accelerate future development of flexible electronics, was developed by Penn State College of Engineering researchers.
The 2020 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 5 in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Freeman Auditorium on Penn State’s University Park campus. The theme of this year’s lecture series is “Materials to Enhance Human Health.”
Keynote Speaker
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.
University Professor, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Professor of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, Director, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical, Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences Director, Institute for Regenerative Engineering Chief Executive Officer, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Connecticut
“Regenerative Engineering: The Future of Tissue Regeneration”
Regenerative engineering is defined as a convergence of advanced materials science, stem cell science, physics, developmental biology, and clinical translation. Dr. Laurencin focuses on musculoskeletal tissue regeneration involving a transdisciplinary approach. Polymeric nanofiber systems create the prospect for biomimetics that recapitulate connective tissue ultrastructure allowing for the design of biomechanically functional matrices, or next generation matrices that create a niche for stem cell activity. Polymer and polymer-ceramic systems can be utilized for the regeneration of bone. Hybrid matrices possessing micro and nano architecture can create advantageous systems for regeneration, while the use of classic principles of materials science and engineering can lead to the development of three-dimensional systems suitable for functional regeneration of tissues of the knee. Engineered systems for soft tissues take advantage of architectural, biomechanical and biochemical cues. Principles found in embryological development and in developmental morphogenesis will ultimately be critical for addressing grand challenges in regeneration. Drug delivery approaches utilize conventional and unconventional concepts. Through convergence of a number of technologies, the approach to regeneration is done in a more holistic way.
Researchers at Penn State and Purdue University have developed new materials for improved single-atom catalysis and future electronics.
“This research shows that materials that were previously difficult to sinter can now be done,” said Clive Randall, professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State, who led the development of cold sintering.
T.C. Mike Chung, professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, received a three-year, $1.12 million grant to develop super-absorbent materials designed to store natural gas under less extreme pressures and temperatures than those required today.