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Faculty Form fit: Device wraps around hot surfaces, turns wasted heat to electricity 01/21/2022 A new flexible thermoelectric generator can wrap around pipes and other hot surfaces and convert wasted heat into electricity more efficiently than previously possible, according to scientists at Penn State and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. |
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Faculty Libraries launches ROAM, an expanded open educational resources repository 01/21/2022 Penn State University Libraries' Open Publishing unit recently launched ROAM, a newly expanded online publication service for openly licensed educational materials authored by Penn State faculty. |
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Faculty Cold-sintering may open door to improved solid-state battery production 01/21/2022 Penn State researchers have proposed an improved method of solid-state battery production that enables multi-material integration for better batteries -- cold sintering. |
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2022 Materials Spotlight series kicks off Jan. 27 with “The Future of Plastics” 01/20/2022 The first edition of the 2022 Materials Spotlight Series, "The Future of Plastics," will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 27 on the virtual platform Gather.Town |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Erica Smithwick to discuss changing climate narrative, conference 01/19/2022 Penn State attendee and COP26 presenter Erica Smithwick, distinguished professor of geography, will discuss key takeaways from the climate conference and the need to change the climate narrative during a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24. |
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Faculty Post-fire forest recovery tools developed 01/18/2022 Restocking forest patches after fires is important but relies on landscape and local factors, making successful tree replacement and forest recovery difficult. Now, a team of geographers analyzed forest recovery to develop aids for managers in maintaining forests. |
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Faculty Newly discovered carbon may yield clues to ancient Mars 01/17/2022 NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home for researchers to interpret. |
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Research Penn State awarded $3.4 million contract to target plastic waste 01/17/2022 Penn State has been awarded a $3.4 million contract from the REMADE Institute, a public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy, to fund research targeting the inefficient methods currently used to process and upcycle mixed plastic waste. |
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Faculty Integrated modeling of climate impacts on electricity demand and cost 01/17/2022 Around the world, energy systems are increasingly impacted by the effects of a changing climate. |
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Faculty Paper on geovisual analytics wins 'Test of Time' award 01/10/2022 A 2011 paper authored by Penn State researchers outlining a geovisual analytics approach to support geographically grounded situational awareness of crisis events using social media was selected to receive the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology Test of Time award. |