Physical Sciences

Eric Feigelson named Distinguished Senior Scholar
Eric Feigelson
Bratoljub Milosavljevic receives Priestley Prize
Schaak honored with 2016 American Chemical Society Inorganic Nanoscience Award
Raymond E. Schaak
Scott Phillips receives Benkovic Early Career Professorship
NSF funds national user facility for $17.8 million to develop 2-D crystals
Artistic representation of growth and characterization of 2D materials -- tungsten disulfide on graphene Credit: Terrones Lab / Penn State
Phillips honored with Stephen and Patricia Benkovic Early Career Professorship
Scott Phillips
Ray Schaak selected to receive ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award
New trigger for self-powered mechanical movement
This image illustrates pumping in two directions at once with an enzyme patch. A patch of enzymes immobilized on a surface acts as a fluid pump. The fluid, and the small particles (green spheres) carried by the fluid, can simultaneously be pumped away from the patch (blue) in some parts of the chamber and toward the patch (red) in other locations. This behavior changes over time and is due to the changes in fluid density that the reaction produces. Credit: University of Pittsburgh
Mikael Rechtsman receives Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in physics
Mikael Rechtsman
New clues in the hunt for the sources of cosmic neutrinos
This illustration is an example of a hidden cosmic-ray accelerator. Cosmic rays are accelerated up to extremely high energies in dense environments close to black holes. High-energy gamma rays (marked by the “Y” gamma symbol) are blocked from escaping, while neutrinos (marked by the “V”nu symbol) easily escape and can reach the Earth. Credit: Bill Saxton at NRAO/AUI/NSF, modified by Kohta Murase at Penn State University
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