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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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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.