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Study on mechanochemistry-enabled Diels-Alder reaction published in Science Magazine

Study on mechanochemistry-enabled Diels-Alder reaction published in Science Magazine

Reporting in Science, co-authors Li Yuan (doctoral student) and Alejandro Boscoboinik (former postdoctoral researcher) show how mechanics can drive chemical reactions. This project was a collaborative effort between research groups at University of Pennsylvania, University of California – Merced, and the City University of New York. Read more about the work in the Penn Engineering […]

 
Carpick Group Members attend 2023 STLE Annual Meeting

Carpick Group Members attend 2023 STLE Annual Meeting

Multiple Carpick group members attended the 77th STLE Annual Meeting in May 2023 in Long Beach, CA. They gave a total of seven presentations at the STLE Annual Meeting, with undergraduate student Daniel Delghandi winning a gold award in the student poster competition. Group members enjoyed meeting up with several other alumni from the group, […]

 
Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal to start tenure track faculty position at Oklahoma State University

Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal to start tenure track faculty position at Oklahoma State University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal, has accepted an offer to join the faculty of the Oklahoma State University School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Nautiyal will establish a research program on advanced manufacturing, with a focus on materials processing and interfacial mechanics. He will begin this new role in Fall […]

 
Daniel Delghandi wins Gold Award in the Student Poster Competition at STLE Annual Meeting

Daniel Delghandi wins Gold Award in the Student Poster Competition at STLE Annual Meeting

Undergraduate Research Assistant Daniel Delghandi attended the 77th Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Long Beach, CA, along with other members of the Carpick Research Group. Daniel presented a poster titled “Metal Oxide Tribofilms: Relating Antiwear Additive Synergy with Mechanical Properties”, for which he was awarded the top award […]

 
Dr. Lu Fang receives her PhD degree

Dr. Lu Fang receives her PhD degree

Carpick Research Group alumna Dr. Lu Fang returned to Penn to receive her PhD at the 2023 Penn Engineering Doctoral Ceremony on May 11, 2023. Dr. Fang, who defended her thesis in November 2022, is now a Senior Lubrication Engineer at Tesla, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA where she’s working on understanding and optimizing the […]

 
Prof. Carpick to give upcoming CMCC talk on mechanochemistry

Prof. Carpick to give upcoming CMCC talk on mechanochemistry

Prof. Robert Carpick will be giving his CMCC Mechanochemistry Discussions seminar: The Stress-Controlled Mechanochemical Reactor: A Novel Tool to Determine Which Stress Components Drive Mechanochemistry on Thursday, March 16 at 10:00 AM (CT), and his presentation will live stream on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eCYPKbGTKpgO7W2bNABxg.  The CMCC online forum was created to showcase world experts and […]

 
Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal wins the Early Career Award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers

Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal wins the Early Career Award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers

Pranjal Nautiyal has been chosen as the recipient of a 2022-2023 Early Career Award by the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). STLE is the premier technical society serving the needs of more than 15,000 individuals and 250 companies and organizations that comprise the tribology and lubrication engineering business sector.  The Early Career Awards recognize the […]

 
Carpick Group excites students for tribology at Philly Materials Day

Carpick Group excites students for tribology at Philly Materials Day

Members of the Carpick Group set up their tribology demos Saturday morning at Drexel University on February 11, 2023. Read more about the event on LinkedIn.

 
Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal named National Academy of Inventors Senior Member

Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal named National Academy of Inventors Senior Member

Pranjal Nautiyal has been named to the 2023 class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Pranjal is being recognized for his “success in patents, licensing, and commercialization” and for producing “technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society”. NAI Senior Member program aims to enhance the visibility […]

 
Parker LaMascus takes us through a day in the life of a PhD student in nanotribology

Parker LaMascus takes us through a day in the life of a PhD student in nanotribology

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