VIPER News
Meet the VIPER Class of 2016
Zachery Iton, VIPER Junior, Named Dean's Scholar for 2016
VIPER's Zachery Iton, a junior majoring in Chemistry and in Materials Science and Engineering, has been named a Dean's Scholar for 2016 by Penn's College of Arts and Sciences. This elite honor, recognizing nine students in total, is awarded for outstanding academic achievement, breadth of challenging course load, and engagement with research.
Journal "Nature Communications" Features Research by Penn Faculty & VIPER Students
VIPER students Drew Lilley (Class of '17) and Eric Lu (Class of '16), as part of a study led by Penn Prof. Igor Bargatin, have published research on ultralight shape-recovering metamaterials in the journal Nature Communications. Read more here.
Penn Researchers Make Thinnest Plates That Can Be Picked Up by Hand
Researchers at Penn, led by Prof. Igor Bargatin with contributions by VIPER students Drew Lilley and Eric Lu, have now created the thinnest plates that can be picked up and manipulated by hand. This work is part of a larger global effort to make new materials that are as thin, light and strong as possible. Read more here.
Research by VIPER's Connor Lippincott and his mentor Eric Schelter of Penn Chemistry published in Chemistry-A European Journal
Research by VIPER senior Connor Lippincott, Class of 2016, conducted with his research mentor, Prof. Eric Schelter of Penn Chemistry, has been published in Chemistry-A European Journal. See more here.
Research by VIPER's David Lim and Prof. Andrew Rappe published in Applied Physics Letters
David Lim, a senior in VIPER, and his mentor, VIPER Faculty Co-Director Andrew Rappe, Prof. of Chemistry, have published their research on the electronic phase transition in quadruple perovskite films in the journal Applied Physics Letters. Read more here.
Research by VIPER's Carol Wang to be Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
VIPER's Carol Wang has contributed to research accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, as part of Penn Prof. Patrick Walsh's group in Chemistry. Their work has revealed how a type of highly reactive organic molecule (a sulfenate anion) is capable of being used as a catalyst for cross-coupling reactions. See more here.
Press Release on Penn Prof. and VIPER Mentor Eric Schelter: Pioneering Research in Rare-Earth Magnet Recycling
Penn Communications has issued a press release featuring pathbreaking new research by Eric Schelter, Penn Professor of Chemistry and VIPER mentor, into the recycling of rare-earth magnets. VIPER student Connor Lippincott conducts research in the Schelter group, which recently marked the publication of findings in Angewandte Chemie (International Edition). Read more here.
"SAS Frontiers" Features VIPER's Alan Dai, Spotlights His DuPont Research
This month's edition of Penn's "SAS Frontiers" features VIPER's Alan Dai, spotlighting his summer research at DuPont in Newark, Delaware. Dai, a 2015 Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar, is learning to improve the manufacturing process of agricultural materials. Read more here.