New polymer units created by UD, Penn researchers could enable materials breakthroughs From tires to clothes to shampoo, many ubiquitous products are made with polymers, large chain-like mol... Read more
Chemists at Penn have identified a new approach for purifying rare earth metals, crucial components of technology that require environmentally-damaging mining procedures. Seventy-five of the... Read more
A new study shows how tiny robotic vessels powered by acoustic waves and an on-board bubble motor can be maneuvered through cellular landscapes using magnets. A new study from the lab of Tho... Read more
Army researchers tested ground robots performing military-style exercises, much like Soldier counterparts, at a robotics testing site in Pennsylvania recently as part of a 10-year research p... Read more
Topological insulators are a game-changing class of materials; charged particles can flow freely on their edges and route themselves around defects, but can’t pass through their interiors. T... Read more
A productive collaboration between the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science led to the microbe-killing robots for biofilm elimination. A visit to the denti... Read more
A million functional microscopic robots produced from a 4-inch silicon wafer in new nanofabrication process developed by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania Researchers have harnesse... Read more
A sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter High-performance golf clubs and airplane wings are made out of titanium, which is as... Read more
General-purpose robots have plenty of limitations. They can be expensive and cumbersome. They often accomplish only a single type of task. But modular robots – composed of several interchang... Read more
CHOP/Penn Medicine Team Shows first example of base-editing tool to treat a disease in utero in animal models For the first time, scientists have performed prenatal gene editing to prevent a... Read more
