A stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing has been developed and tested by researchers at Penn State, Northeastern University and five universities in China.
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Thursday, September 3, 2020
3:00 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.
Zoom - contact Hayley Barnes, hjc24@psu.edu for link
"Development of the TriBeam Tomography Platform and Acquisition of Multimodal 3D Materials Data"
The development of high fidelity material property and life prediction models often requires three-dimensional information on the distribution of phases, interfaces, grains or extrinsic defects. Such high-resolution chemical, crystallographic and morphological data requires multiple detectors and presents unique image and data challenges. The development of the TriBeam platform to gather multimodal materials data will be described. An overview of the ceramic, metallic and composite material datasets gathered to date will be given. New insights gained from the 3D datasets on structure development during additive manufacturing, crack initiation during fatigue and shock loading of polycrystalline alloys will be given. Finally, the challenges for integrating experimental voxelized data with models for prediction of mechanical properties will be addressed.
The Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded a combined total of $51.1 million to two university research alliances to counter threats of destruction, with a specific focus on improving current and developing future warfighter technology. Penn State is leading the Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter University Research Alliance, which was awarded $30 million for the next five years, with the potential of extending the alliance for a total of nine years and $54 million of funding with additional funding opportunities available.
Plagues of locusts, containing millions of insects, fly across the sky to attack crops, but the individual insects do not collide with each other within these massive swarms. Now a team of engineers is creating a low-power collision detector that mimics the locust avoidance response and could help robots, drones and even self-driving cars avoid collisions.
Penn State students are working virtually on the Pennsylvania Solar Center’s Renew PA Works campaign in an effort to educate Pennsylvanians about the benefits of renewable energy, including job creation. The opportunity is made possible through City Semester, an internship program facilitated by the Penn State Center Pittsburgh, a Penn State Outreach service.
Katelyn Kirchner, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Penn State, recently earned the Alfred R. Cooper Scholars Award from the American Ceramic Society.
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A supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result in too much or too little dopamine, according to a group led by Penn State and including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and universities in China and Japan.