Professor Trolier-McKinstry leads focus issue on the history of ferroelectrics in the American Ceramic Society Bulletin. "Ferroelectric materials are ubiquitous in electrical and electromechanical components and systems. Ferroelectricity is associated with large dielectric and piezoelectric coefficients, particularly when the composition is … [Read more...]
Materials Day 2021
The Intersection of Materials, Manufacturing, and Sustainability Tuesday & Wednesday October 12 - 13, 2021 Materials Day is designed to share Penn State’s vast materials research knowledge and infrastructure with our industrial and government research and service partners. The 2021 version of Materials Day will be a hybrid of … [Read more...]
Links to Registration and Hotel Reservations Now Available for the Fall 2019 CDP Meeting!
The Fall CDP Meeting will be held on September 24-26, 2019, at the Nittany Lion Inn, State College, PA. Links to registration and hotel accommodations are as follows: REGISTRATION If you have an invitation email, please register by clicking Yes (or the link) at the bottom of the e-mail. The meeting is private and by invitation … [Read more...]
Veronica Augustyn, CDP Faculty Member Named Sloan Research Fellow
Veronica Augustyn, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry. Augustyn’s research focuses on the electrochemistry of materials. This research has important implications regarding how energy is converted and stored in devices such as … [Read more...]
Thin Layers of Water Hold Promise for the Energy Storage of the Future
Veronica Augustyn, Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics faculty member at North Carolina State University has found that a material which incorporates atomically thin layers of water is able to store and deliver energy much more quickly than the … [Read more...]
Lowering the Heat Makes New Materials Possible While Saving Energy
A new technology developed by Penn State researchers, called cold sintering process (CSP), opens a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such as ceramics and plastics, into new, useful compound materials, and to lower the energy cost of many types of manufacturing. To see the work CDP's Clive Randall is engage in go here: [Read more...]