Soft Robots Gain New Strength and Make Virtual Reality Gloves Feel More Real
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Penn Engineers’ Packaging-free Design Quadruples Microbatteries’ Energy Density
Read about our new paper on making better microbatteries using ultra-thick (100+ um) and dense (94%) electrodes from Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. The 4X gains in energy will allow many previously impossible or impractical devices, including micro-robots.
Penn Engineers’ Packaging-free Design Quadruples Microbatteries’ Energy Density
Growing ‘metallic wood’ to new heights
Congratulations to Zhimin for getting published in Nature Materials. Check out the story describing his work in Penn Today.
Our work on energy harvesting for microrobotics was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Min’s recent Editor’s Choice paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems, “Computer‐Free Autonomous Navigation and Power Generation Using Electro‐Chemotaxis“, got a nice write up in the Philadelphia Inquirer by Tom Avril.
Pikul wins the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
MEAM Assistant Professor, James Pikul, has won the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. This award recognizes outstanding new faculty who were nominated by 3M researchers and selected based on research, experience and academic leadership. Thank you Chunjie Zhang and Ben Mac Murray for the nomination.
Editor’s Choice in Advanced Intelligent Systems
Min Wang and Yue Gao’s work on Computer‐Free Autonomous Navigation and Power Generation Using Electro‐Chemotaxis was selected as the Editor’s Choice article. The Editors’ Choice articles are handpicked by the editorial team of Advanced Intelligent Systems to showcase the very best that the journal has to offer. Read more about the work here.
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2640-4567.editors-choice
James Pikul is selected to be a Moore Inventors Fellow
James has been selected as a Moore Inventors Fellow. The highly competitive fellowship supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation’s areas of interest: scientific discovery, environmental conservation and patient care. The Pikul Lab will combine robotics and electrochemistry to create new energy sources. Their inventions will create a synthetic metabolism to power off-grid electronics that conserve and monitor the health of our planet.
James Pikul Awarded 2020 Moore Inventor Fellowship to Develop ‘Synthetic Metabolism’
Iron Man: The engineer who became a superhero
James Pikul talks with Penn Today about Iron Man, how his energy source enables his super powers, and what it means to have an engineer superhero.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/iron-man-engineer-who-became-superhero