Press Coverage
"Birgitt Boschitsch is cleaning up the world. One toilet at a time."
Penn State News | January 26, 2022
"Birgitt Boschitsch is cleaning up the world. One toilet at a time."
Invent Penn State | January 2020
Penn State News | January 28, 2020
Cheddar | January 23, 2020
Penn State News | April 30, 2019
spotLESS Materials at the Rice Business Plan Competition
April 5, 2019
Aug. 24, 2018 | Science Magazine
Nov. 11, 2018 | The Daily Beast
Image Credit: Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway, The Daily Beast
Sep. 10, 2018 | Penn State News
“As engineers, we often only focus on figuring what to make and how to make it...But I’d encourage all engineers to also figure out why we’re making it.”
Sep. 6, 2018 | Motherboard - Vice
Large grains fall and small grains are left, a mysterious filter membrane
(大きな粒が落ちて小さな粒が残る、不思議なフィルター膜 )
Sep. 4, 2018 | Gizmodo
Sep. 4, 2018 | Le Monde
Sep. 4, 2018 | Sächsische Zeitung
Aug 31, 2018 | General Electric Reports
Aug. 30, 2018 | El Independiente
Aug. 28, 2018 | Welt
Aug. 27, 2018 | Spiegel
August 25 2018 | The London Times
Aug. 24, 2018 | Penn State News
Penn State News | April 26, 2018
See our Cleantech Pitch!
April 2018
Our work on self-healing liquid membranes as unusual particle filters featured on Science Magazine and Science Advances homepages
March 30, 2018 | Penn State News
Our work on synthetic brochosomes featured Nature Communications cover image
January 12, 2018 | Penn State Materials Research Institute
Birgitt wins MRS Graduate Student Gold Award for outstanding research and MRS Authur Nowick Gradaute Student Award for outstanding teaching and mentorship
December 01, 2017 | Materials Research Society
November 3, 2017 | Penn State News
Image credit: Shikaun Yang, Birgitt Boschitsch, and Tak-Sing Wong
May 9, 2016 | Science Nation
Featuring: Tak Sing Wong, Jing Wang, Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin
Video Credits: Marsha Walton, Laurie Howell, Miles O'Brien
January 11, 2016 | Penn State News
Image credit: Shikuan Yang and Tak-Sing Wong
Related News: headline story in National Science Foundation 360, Science Daily, Phys.Org, Nanowerk, R&D Magazine, Futurism, and KurzweilAI.
An explanation of the slippery Wenzel state
Nov 6, 2015 | ACS Nano
Featuring: Tak Sing Wong, Xianming Dai, Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin
Video Credit: Kate Myers, Shea Winton, and Hai Nguyen
Slippery rough surfaces featured in NSF super science video
Sep 19, 2015 | National Science Foundation
August 31, 2015 | Penn State News
Image credit: Xianming Dai, Chujun Zeng, and Tak-Sing Wong, Penn State University
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