Category: Research + Innovation

As our ability to manipulate materials on the nanoscale grows, our library of “two dimensional” materials increases. Consisting of a repeating lattice of atoms in … Read More ›

Jennifer Wilcox, the University of Pennsylvania’s new Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy, is one of the world’s leading experts on carbon … Read More ›

There is currently no cure for osteoarthritis, but a group of scientists believe they’ve discovered a method through which a simple knee injection could potentially … Read More ›

The lab of Penn’s César de la Fuente sits at the interface of machines and biology, with much of its work focused on innovative treatments for infectious disease. … Read More ›

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania have identified ionizable lipid nanoparticles that … Read More ›

Curiosity has been found to play a role in our learning and emotional well-being, but due to the open-ended nature of how curiosity is actually … Read More ›

While artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of nearly every industry and increasingly present in everyday life, even the most impressive AI is no … Read More ›

The first-ever image of a black hole, published in 2019, was constructed from five petabytes of data. These files were so large that they had … Read More ›

Penn’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology has added the newest cutting-edge technology to its collection of already impressive microscopes: The Krios G3i, a cryogenic electron microscope that will allow … Read More ›

The design of new materials is all about achieving the right mix of properties from their constituent parts, whether they’re atoms and molecules, or more … Read More ›