New materials invention for oil spill clean-up
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 14:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was not the largest in history nor will it be the last, according to T.C. (Mike) Chung, professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State. But a recent patent-pending material developed by Chung could dramatically reduce the environmental damage if deployed on a wide scale.