2019 Highlights

The Penn State MRSEC partnered with Science-U summer camps to pilot a half-day STEM program for college-bound high school students who are blind or visually impaired.

The diffusivity of enzymes is enhanced when they are catalytically active, and it was suggested that this enhancement could be correlated to their exothermicity.

Acoustics arrays can be used for imaging, directing the motion of particles, and (at high intensities) therapeutic applications.

We have synthesized large area, well ordered binary crystals composed of two different sizes of silica colloid spheres as small as 20 nm in diameter.

Gold nanowire lattices were formed by electric field directed assembly and reconfigured on-demand between two different functional states, in the form of broadband polarizers.

Layered complex oxides offer an unusually rich materials platform for emergent phenomena through many built-in design knobs such as varied topologies, chemical ordering schemes and geometric tuning

MRSEC researchers have developed an informatics-guided ab initio approach to accelerate the design and discovery of noncentrosymmetric materials, integrating group theory, informatics and density-f