Getting to know Sarah! Sarah is a 3rd year PhD student in the Jon-Paul Maria group at PSU. Her anticipated graduation date is April 2021. The CDP asked Sarah the following to get to know her a little better! What do you most enjoy about being a part of CDP? My favorite aspect of CDP is the consistent interaction with both the member … [Read more...]
Jon-Paul Maria elected fellow of American Ceramic Society
Congratulation to Jon-Paul Maria, who has been elected a fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS)! Maria is among the 23 members who will be inducted at the 22nd ACerS Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually on Oct. 5 at the Materials Science and Technology Conference. [Read more...]
Spring 2021 CDP Meeting
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Dates for the Spring 2021 meeting have been announced - June 14-16, 2021. While this meeting is currently scheduled to be held at the Sheraton in Raleigh, NC, the CDP will continue to monitor travel restrictions and follow … [Read more...]
Ceramic Tech Chat
Integrating Research for a Greener, Cleaner World: Clive Randall THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY - EPISODE 3 Materials research is about more than technical impact—it’s about having a human impact as well. Director of the Materials Research Institute at The … [Read more...]
5G & BEYOND
The rollout of 5G devices is in its infancy. With the exception of a few square blocks in a few American cities. no one in U.S. is currently using 5G technology. Current 4G technology, the generation that delivers data to your smart phone, took three to five years from … [Read more...]
Cold sintering produces capacitor material at record low temperatures
A team of Penn state scientists who used the cold sintering process to densify barium titanate ceramics at less than 572 degrees Fahrenheit (300 degrees Celsius), the lowest processing temperatures ever used, while maintaining the quality achieved at higher temperatures in modern commercial manufacturing. Read More about this process here: [Read more...]