2013 Research Highlights

Penn State MRSEC IRG1-TEAM (Strain-enabled multiferroics), in close collaboration with Cornell MRSEC, U Maryland, NIST and others, has designed and demonstrated the world’s best tunable microwave d

A crack in a high mineral-content material, like bone or a synthetic mineral/polymeric composite, generates ion gradients which can be utilized for active targeting and repair.

A thin aluminum wire is contacted by 4 wider electrodes, as shown at left.

John V. Badding and co-workers demonstrate on p. 1461 the ability to fabricate silicon p-i-n junctions within high aspect ratio optical fibers, and which exhibit photovoltaic response.

The Penn State MRSEC has recognized that, in order to further increase the diversity of our own Center participation, we need to target institutional-level change by addressing pipeline issues of r

The Franklin Institute (a science museum in Philadelphia) and the MRSEC have been engaged in a longtime partnership which most recently resulted in a 5th museum show kit called Pocket Tech.

Piezoelectric materials convert electrical to mechanical energy.

Silver phosphate micromotors exhibit reversible transition between two collective behaviors: repulsive dispersion-like “exclusion” and attractive clustering-like “schooling” by the addition and rem

A Y-shaped microfluidic device generates a gradient in the concentration of “substrate,” the fuel for an enzyme.

Following the discovery (ACS Nano 2012, 6, 6122) of bio-compatible, acoustically powered nanorod motors, MRSEC researchers have collaborated with scientists at ESPCI (Paris Tech) and NIST to study

Patterning of nanowires in a controllable, tunable manner is important for the fabrication of functional nanodevices.

We recently developed small molecule reagents that can be grafted onto polymer beads or surfaces to create a variety of smart pumps.

MRSEC researchers have recently designed and demonstrated a broadband, polarizationinsensitive metamaterial with greater than 98% measured average absorptivity that is maintained over a wide ±45° f

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a mainstay of the semiconductor industry. Films of materials useful for chips, solar cells, displays, window coatings etc.

Resistance measurements were made as a funcIon of temperature and magneIc field on a 6 mm long Ga-­‐In eutecIc nanowire confined in a hollow glass fiber of 150nm inner diameter.