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Balancing industry and academia in a collaborative project
In fall semester of 2016, during my senior year of undergraduate study at Pennsylvania State University, I worked on a joint ceramic project between the university and GE Oil and Gas. This invaluable research opportunity allowed me to study flexible lead zirconate titanate ultrasonic transducers for permanently installed sensors that…
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Sol–gel products, applications, and markets
The sol–gel technique enables processing of glasses and ceramics at low temperature in various desirable shapes, such as monoliths, films, fibers, or nanometer-sized powders. More importantly, the sol–gel technique makes it possible to combine and distribute organic molecules within inorganic oxide networks to form organic/inorganic hybrids. Such combinations form the…