Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for Pennsylvania State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a 114-PI network with 518 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Materials Science as the leading field (37% of slots across 82 PIs; 82 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (24% of slots across 67 PIs; 67 labels), and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials as the leading topic (5% of slots across 17 PIs; 17 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are John C. Mauro (125.2 weighted works; Glass properties and applications, Material Dynamics and Properties). The clearest collaboration lines are Zi‐Kui Liu and Shun‐Li Shang (206 shared works, weight 82.7). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 238.7, around Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering, led by Qing Wang, Long‐Qing Chen, Allison M. Beese.