Working together across disciplines, researchers from Penn State and the University of Freiburg are applying materials that adapt, respond to the environment, self-power, and regenerate to meet the challenges of adaptive architecture. Read more
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Fungi into the future
Penn State researchers have aided the state’s important mushroom industry for nearly 100 years, and they’re still going strong. But mushrooms aren’t just for eating anymore. Read more
Penn State undergraduate students thrive in iPRISM research internship program
This summer, four undergraduate students from four different departments and two colleges at Penn State investigated new engineered living materials — materials that exhibit life-like features — for eight weeks in Germany. Read more
Beyond Smart Materials
Penn State’s Living Materials team is working across departments and continents to engineer adaptive, self-powering, living materials that respond to their environment. Read more
Penn State adaptive screen system for buildings featured in Lisbon Triennale
A Penn State-designed window screen system that automatically changes its shape based on indoor and outdoor environmental conditions is part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal through Dec. 5. Read more
Designed to Adapt: Living materials are the future of sustainable building
Student-led virtual event strengthens Penn State-Freiburg Partnership
Stuckeman School researchers receive interdisciplinary research grant
Elena Vazquez, an architecture doctoral candidate, and José Duarte, director of the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, were recently awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Upjohn Research Initiative grant for $25,000 to help further their research. Read more
Penn State, University of Freiburg announce joint seed-grant recipients
Four research projects advancing climate action, from earthen materials to embodied carbon calculators
June 9 webinar to focus on adaptive architecture research, collaboration
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Smart materials could pose solution for big-data bottleneck in future cities
Penn State, University of Freiburg to deepen ties at Virtual Materials Day
The meeting, focused on the convergence of materials and life, will take place Nov. 10-11
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Mechanical engineering grad student charges ahead through research
Award-winning doctoral student Xiaoyue Zhao explores how smart materials can harness triboelectricity to power small electronics
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Living materials webinar partners Penn State, University of Freiburg researchers
More than 100 registered participants met July 22-23 for a virtual webinar organized by the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems (LiMC2). The webinar brought together researchers from Penn State and the University of Freiburg, and focused on three emerging topics in living materials, namely materials for sensing and diagnostics, smart buildings and adaptive architecture, and advanced manufacturing.
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Penn State, University of Freiburg living materials partnership begins virtually
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Penn State, University of Freiburg to participate in live talk
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