Affiliated Researchers: Recent Advances

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment.

Displaying 122 search result(s) for Recent Advances.

Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto


Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: Vibration Control, Building Structure, Semi-active, Tornado, Actuator

Juliana Vasco-Correa


Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Pretreatment, Fungal Pretreatment, Miscanthus, Bioproducts, Feedstock

Scott H. Medina


Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanoemulsion, Anticancer Peptides, Antimicrobial Peptides, Fluorous, Drug Discovery

Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado


Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Flow Distribution, Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Computer Simulation, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), Heat Sink

Rongming Chu


Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Heterojunctions, AlGaN-GaN, Transistor, Heterojunction, GaN HEMT

José Duarte


Professor and Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Shape Grammar, Grammar, Design System, Urban Design, Three Dimensional Printing

Kenneth Knappenberger


Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Relaxation, Electronics, Photoluminescence, Relaxation Dynamics, Nanoclusters

Yi Zhang


Assistant Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Transglutaminase, Food Enzyme, Bioprocess, Gelatin, Alcalase

Samy Madbouly


Assistant Professor of Engineering, Plastics Engineering Technology, School of Engineering (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Polyurethanes, Dispersions, Polymers, Polymethyl Methacrylates, Shear

Ryan Thombs


Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, United States, Fixed Effects, Income Inequality, US States

Chaopeng Shen


Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Streamflow, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Soil Moisture, Long Short-term Memory

Squire Booker


Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: S-Adenosyl Methionine, Enzyme, Radical S-Adenosylmethionine, S-adenosylmethionine, Synthase

Aida Ebrahimi


Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Top research keywords: Silicon, Laser-induced Graphene, Graphene, Hydrogenation, Carbon Nanotube

Scott A. Showalter


Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Intrinsically Disordered Protein, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Dynamics, C-Terminus, FCP1

Wenjie Li


Assistant Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Thermoelectrics, Thermoelectricity, Sintering, Thermoelectric Materials, Yb3+

Sairam V. Rudrabhatla


Professor of Biology, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Hemp, Cannabis Sativa, Explant, Callus, Plant Regeneration

Arash Dahi Taleghani


Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Hydraulic Fracturing, Wellbore, Hydraulic Fracture, Natural Fracture, Lost Circulation Material

Sharifa Crandall


Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Fungal Spores, Plant Diseases, Vegetation Type, Plant Pathogen, Airborne Spores

Bed Poudel


Associate Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Thermoelectrics, Thermoelectricity, Thermoelectric Materials, Thermal Conductivity, Nanostructures

Douglas Werner


John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Antenna, Metamaterials, Metasurface, Genetic Algorithm, Dielectrics

Alexander Hristov


Professor, Animal Science
Top research keywords: Dairy Cows, Methane, Dairy Cow, Rumen, Cow

Meng Wang


Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Anaerobic Co-digestion, Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater, Microalgae, Anaerobic Digestion

Jill Hamilton


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Genetic Divergence, Genetics, Hybrid Zone, Seeds, Evolution

Wayne Curtis


Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Root Culture, Hyoscyamus Muticus, Hyoscyamus, Reactor, Cell Suspension

Adri van Duin


Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: ReaxFF, Surface (Surface Science), Computer Simulation, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, ReaxFF Reactive Force Field

Robert Beelman


Professor Emeritus of Food Science; Director, Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health
Top research keywords: Nutritional and medicinal properties of mushrooms, Antioxidants-selenium and ergothioneine, Vitamin D-enrichment of mushrooms

Anthony C. Didlake Jr.


Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Tropical Cyclone, Rainband, Updraft, Tropical Cyclones, Rainbands

Richard Alley


Evan Pugh University Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Ice Sheet, Greenland, Antarctic Region, Ice Stream, West Antarctica

Tak Sing Wong


Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Surface (Surface Science), Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Nanotube, Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs), Brochosomes

Yashar Mehmani


Assistant Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Multiscale, Pore Network Model, Porosity, Porous Media, Pore Level

Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz


Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Florida, United States Of America, Mounds, Calusa, Native American

Donald Bryant


Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology and Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Synechococcus, Cyanobacteria, Photosystem I Protein Complex, Chlorobi, Light

Eugene Clothiaux


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Atmospheric Radiation, Radiation Measurement, Atmospheric Measurements, Atmospherics, Cloud Radar

Nathan Keim


Associate Research Professor, Physics
Top research keywords: Mechanical Properties, Microstructure, Amorphous Solids, Disordered Materials, Disordered Solids

Kofi Adu


Professor of Physics, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Carbon Nanotube, Nanowire, Carbon Nanotubes, Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs), Thermoelectrics

Jian Hsu


Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Quantum Dot, Light-Emitting Diode, Quantum Dots, Nanocrystal Quantum Dots, Nanocrystalline Material

David Stensrud


Department Head, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Thermodynamics, Ensemble Forecast, Storm, Data Assimilation, Thunderstorm

Yunji Zhang


Assistant Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Thermodynamics, All-sky, Thunderstorm, China, Tropical Cyclone

Jennifer Wagner


Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: DNA Testing, Ethical Considerations, United States, Genomic Medicine, Direct-to-consumer

Nutifafa Yao Doumon


Assistant Professor and Virginia S. & Philip L. Walker Jr. Faculty Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Organic Solar Cells, Solar Cell, Perovskite Solar Cell, Fullerene, Photovoltaics