🤖 new US government report on self-driving labs just dropped! Very excited to share the Material Genome Initiative report on the autonomous experimentation for materials R&D workshop I helped co-organize is out! A short thread on whats in it:

Excited to share our new method in Science Magazine to advance the properties of DLP-printed materials. This work was led by @apdhand & @fiber_matt in collaboration w/ Hannah Zlotnick & NIST colleagues. Link: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… CU Boulder Engineering 🦬 Penn Bioengineering BioFrontiers 💻🦠🧬🧪🧫💉📊📓

The U.S. National Science Foundation AIRFoundry, backed by an $18M grant, will revolutionize RNA research with AI. Partners include Penn Engineering, Penn Medicine, RUM/UPRM, Drexel Engineering Children's Hospital, and InfiniFluidics. #NSFfunded bit.ly/3XkRWh7

This is the elevator in the MSE building at Drexel. I’m confused.

New paper in ACS Nano. Demonstration of giant-optical anisotropy by way of exciton-polaritons in hybrid layered materials called MOCHAs. Another great collab. with Eric Stach. Nano Penn Engineering Penn Electrical and Systems Engineering Materials Science and Engineering at Penn. Office of Naval Research (ONR) funded. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

It's almost time for the University of Pennsylvania's 2024 DEEPenn STEM Weekend on October 11th-13th! Thank you to all our sponsors and to Professor Chinedum Osuji for being this year's keynote speaker!

TSMC has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories in Taiwan, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife trib.al/c6XdKvH

New in Nano Letters Another great collaboration with 2DCC-MIP Joan Redwing Eric Stach National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work was led by Materials Science and Engineering at Penn undergraduate alum Linda Lin who is now Stanford Materials Science and Engineering. Penn Electrical and Systems Engineering Penn Engineering Nano. Office of Naval Research (ONR) funded. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

A billion times less power? In collaboration with IISc Bangalore & MIT School of Engineering, Ritesh Agarwal at Materials Science and Engineering at Penn developed a scalable, low-power method to amorphize indium selenide, advancing phase-change memory (PCM) tech. bit.ly/4hAhoaG #EnergyEfficiency

Materials Science and Engineering at Penn would like to thank Northwestern Engineering Dean of Engineering, Christoper Schuh, for taking the time from his schedule to provide his talk for the David P. Pope Distinguished Lecture today. Photos by Felice Macera

🚛📦 Boston bound! Who’s joining us for #F24MRS? The countdown is on—just 2 weeks to go! It’s not too late to be part of the excitement > MRS.org/Fall2024 #HereWeComeBoston #MaterialsResearch

A hidden gem in the Penn Engineering world is the LRSM Science Cafe Videos that provide lectures on research to the public. This week, Materials Science and Engineering at Penn PhD student Eli Fastow provided a talk, "Plastic Recycling by Chemical Transformation: Unexpected Properties from Waste." It's worth

@mseatpenn Eric Stach led a collaborative team of researchers @CHASE_Hub NC State Chemistry UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry Yale Chemistry Penn Engineering to identify how chemical catalysts drive the creation of liquid fuels from sunlight, paving the way for more efficient removal of greenhouse gases from

It was a pleasure to serve on the PhD Committee of Yihui Zhang. Her work "Cryogenic Microscopies of Energy Storage Materials: Insights into Metal Anodes, Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces, and #MXenes" was excellent. Fruitful collaboration between Penn and Drexel Nanomaterials Institute (DNI)!

#ExpandYourImpact MRS Board of Directors Applications Now Open ➡️ MRS.org/Board-Leadersh… #materialsresearch #S25MRS

@mseatpenn congratulates A. Shoji Hall on being recognized as a 2024 Rising Star in Materials Science by Adam Spangler Materials Au. This recognition highlights his pioneering contributions to the field and places him among an elite group of 19 early career researchers selected from over

🌴 Heads-up! Abstract submissions for #S26MRS open in two weeks! If your research is ready for the spotlight, it's time to start prepping. Honolulu is waiting… 🏖️ Be ready! MRS.org/Spring2026

🔬 Postdoctoral Opportunity: 2D MXenes Research at University of Pennsylvania We're seeking a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team investigating the critical relationship between synthesis approaches and defect formation in 2D MXenes.

Materials Science and Engineering at Penn would like to thank Judy Cha and host Eric Stach for an amazing seminar yesterday. As is our custom, we invite our students to take our guest to lunch to share thoughts and ideas and foster meaningful connections via an academic exchange. Most important, Nina from