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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
PhD Candidate, Lu Fang, was one of two students awarded “Best Student Poster” at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology. The title of her award-winning poster was “Spatially-resolved mechanochemistry: Taking advantage of contact mechanics to understand how forces drive ZDDP tribofilm formation”.
Postdoctoral researcher, Dr. J. Brandon McClimon, offered his expertise on solid lubricants in the May 2022 issue of Tribology & Lubrication Technology, an STLE publication. Read the cover story, titled “Solid lubricants: Research into the molecular mechanisms” here.
The E. Richard Booser Scholarship, awarded by the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), is awarded to high-achieving undergraduates who wish to pursue graduate degrees or a career in tribology. Daniel Delghandi is the recipient of the 2021-2022 scholarship.