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Carpick Research Group participates in launch of the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania on November 2, 2022. Eidos is a social innovation hub where evidence-based strategies and cutting-edge scientific discoveries are shaped into ventures focused on improving LGBTQ+ people’s health and well-being. With support from Penn’s Center for AIDS Research and […]

Carpick Research Group principal investigator Rob Carpick gave a talk entitled “Seeing the Hidden Interface: Revealing Nanoscale Mechanisms of Contact, Adhesion, and Friction by in situ Experiments”  at IndiaTrib 2022 – the 11th International Conference on Industrial Tribology (ICIT) in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 13, 2022. This international conference, established in 1997, is held […]

Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Danny Sánchez, presented preliminary results from a collaborative project studying the mechanics of spontaneously folding two-dimensional materials at the 2022 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting. The poster, titled “Suspended, Self-tearing, and Strained Graphene Nanostructures Formed by Nanoindentation” elaborated on the types of structures that form in substrate supported graphene after indenting. The […]

Dr. Lu Fang defended her thesis, on November 14, 2022. Dr. Fang’s defense focused on “Enabling Ultra-Low Viscosity Lubricants Through Fundamental Understanding of ZDDPs Anti-Wear Additives and their Tribofilm Growth Mechanisms”. When asked how she felt having completed this final step in her Ph.D. journey, Fang replied “Time goes by really fast and I really […]

2022 NSF REU student and 2nd year Penn State University chemistry student, Kueyoung Kim, was a awarded first place in the Eberly College of Science research poster competition physical science division. Kueyoung presented on work he conducted in the Carpick research group to investigate Diels-Alder cycloaddition using shear stress.

The US Department of Energy has funded a $1.9M grant for a team including the Carpick Lab at UPenn, where lab members Parker LaMascus and Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal will work with the team to develop high-performance coatings for gears and bearings operating in harsh environments. LaMascus and Nautiyal will specialize in rapid testing and material […]

Prof. Rob Carpick, principal investigator of the Carpick Research Group, was recently interviewed in a podcast on Mechanochemistry produced by the Science History Institute, which describes research our group participates in through the NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry.

Kueyoung Kim, a rising 2nd year in Chemistry at Penn State University, won Honorable Mention for his poster presentation at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) symposium. His poster was titled “Using shear stress to drive Diels-Alder cycloaddition”. Keuyoung had been working in the Carpick Lab over the summer through […]

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Danny Sánchez, attended the 129th American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He moderated the Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPPD) symposium and presented the findings of his soon-to-appear conference paper in a talk titled “LGBTQ+ Demographic Data: Barriers and Motivations”. The day of the talk appropriately coincided with […]