The Penn State Center for Biodevices (CfB) unites engineers, scientists, and healthcare providers to create innovative device-based solutions that promote support better human health, promote sustainable agronomy, and strengthen environmental resilience. Through research innovation, industry partnerships, community events, and workforce development programs, CfB empowers researchers and students to translate discovery into impact.
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New director expands Center for Biodevices scope for higher impact
Scott Medina, William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was recently named the director for the Center for Biodevices within the Huck Institutes for Life Sciences.
Person-centered, bio-inspired research leads to improved control of prosthetics
Penn State researcher focuses on creating wearable assistive robotic systems for people with limited use of their limbs, especially their hands, with the goal of the user intuitively controlling the systems and devices on which they rely.
Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices
To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed material that is soft and stretchable — traits needed for matching the properties of tissues and organs — and that self-assembles.
News
New director expands Center for Biodevices scope for higher impact
Scott Medina, William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was recently named the director for the Center for Biodevices within the Huck Institutes for Life Sciences.
Person-centered, bio-inspired research leads to improved control of prosthetics
Penn State researcher focuses on creating wearable assistive robotic systems for people with limited use of their limbs, especially their hands, with the goal of the user intuitively controlling the systems and devices on which they rely.
Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices
To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed material that is soft and stretchable — traits needed for matching the properties of tissues and organs — and that self-assembles.
‘Better than graphene’ material development may improve implantable technology
Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, stronger and more flexible than graphene, the 2D version of carbon. Now, researchers at Penn State have made the material potentially more useful by imparting chirality — or handedness — on it, which could make for advanced sensors and implantable medical devices.