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Penn Researchers Establish Universal Signature Fundamental to How Glassy Materials Fail（图）
Penn Researchers Establish Universal Signature Fundamental Glassy Materials Fail
2017/12/18
Dropping a smartphone on its glass screen, which is made of atoms jammed together with no discernible order, could result in it shattering. Unlike metals and other crystalline materials, glass and man...
Penn Researchers Working to Mimic Giant Clams to Enhance the Production of Biofuel（图）
Penn Researchers Mimic Giant Clams Production of Biofuel
2017/11/23
Alison Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania has been studying giant clams since she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. These large mollusks, which anchor th...
Penn Researchers Demonstrate How to Control Liquid Crystal Patterns（图）
Penn Researchers Liquid Crystal Patterns
2017/11/23
When Lisa Tran set out to investigate patterns in liquid crystals, she didn’t know what to expect. When she first looked through the microscope, she saw dancing iridescent spheres with fingerprint-lik...
Penn Researchers Improve Computer Modeling for Designing Drug-delivery Nanocarriers
Penn Researchers Computer Modeling Designing Drug-delivery Nanocarriers
2016/8/11
A team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has developed a computer model that will aid in the design of nanocarriers, microscopic structures used to guide drugs to their targets in the body. Th...
Penn Researchers Make Thinnest Plates That Can Be Picked Up by Hand
Penn Researchers Thinnest Plates Be Picked Up by Hand
2015/12/14
Scientists and engineers are engaged in a global race to make new materials that are as thin, light and strong as possible. These properties can be achieved by designing materials at the atomic level,...
Penn Researchers Discover Why E.coli Move Faster in Syrup-like Fluids Than in Water
Penn Researchers E.coli Syrup
2015/12/7
Swimming in a pool of syrup would be difficult for most people, but for bacteria like E. coli, it’s easier than swimming in water. Scientists have known for decades that these cells move faster a...
Penn Researchers Use Nanoscopic Pores to Investigate Protein Structure
Penn Researchers Nanoscopic Pores Protein Structure
2015/9/9
University of Pennsylvania researchers have made strides toward a new method of gene sequencing a strand of DNA’s bases are read as they are threaded through a nanoscopic hole.In a new study, they hav...
Penn Researchers Discover New Chiral Property of Silicon,With Photonic Applications
Penn Researchers New Chiral Property Silicon Photonic Applications
2015/8/4
y encoding information in photons via their spin, “photonic” computers could be orders of magnitude faster and efficient than their current-day counterparts. Likewise, encoding information in the spin...
Penn Researchers Develop Liquid-crystal-based Compound Lenses That Work Like Insect Eyes
Penn Researchers Liquid-crystal-based Compound Lenses Work Like Insect Eyes
2015/5/25
The compound eyes found in insects and some sea creatures are marvels of evolution. There, thousands of lenses work together to provide sophisticated information without the need for a sophisticated b...
Penn Researchers Develop Custom Artificial Membranes to Study the Molecular Basis of Disease
Penn Researchers Custom Artificial Membranes the Molecular Basis
2015/5/25
Decorating the outside of cells like tiny antenna, a diverse community of sugar molecules acts like a telecommunications system, sending and receiving information, recognizing and responding to foreig...
Penn Researchers Develop New Technique for Making Graphene Competitor, Molybdenum Disulphide
Penn Researchers Making Graphene Competitor Molybdenum Disulphide
2015/3/4
Graphene, a single-atom-thick lattice of carbon atoms, is often touted as a replacement for silicon in electronic devices due to its extremely high conductivity and unbeatable thinness. But graphene i...
Penn Researchers Model the Mechanics of Cells’ Long-range Communication
Penn Researchers Model Mechanics of Cells Long-range Communication
2014/12/30
Interdisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania is showing how cells interact over long distances within fibrous tissue, like that associated with many diseases of the liver, lungs and ot...
Penn Researchers Show Commonalities in How Different Glassy Materials Fail
Different Glassy Materials Fail
2014/12/30
Glass is mysterious. It is a broad class of materials that extends well beyond the everyday window pane, but one thing that these disparate glasses seem to have in common is that they have nothing in ...
Penn Researchers: Consider the ‘Anticrystal’（图）
Solid state physics. Crystal Materials Amorphous materials Interfere with the particle
2014/7/18
For the last century, the concept of crystals has been a mainstay of solid-state physics. Crystals are paragons of order; crystalline materials are defined by the repeating patterns their constit...
Penn researchers find link between sleep and immune function in fruit flies
Penn researchers find link sleep immune function fruit flies
2014/5/13
PHILADELPHIA — When we get sick it feels natural to try to hasten our recovery by getting some extra shuteye. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found t...