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These Penn undergrads want to make fracking safer

They're one of five teams competing for $5,000 and licensing rights to Penn-developed technologies.

Five teams are vying for $5,000 and licensing rights in Penn’s Y-Prize Competition, which challenges students to propose creative uses for Penn-built technologies. One team that made the finals wants to use nanomaterial graphene to “detect trace amounts of harmful leaked fracking fluid into groundwater.”
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Winners will be announced Jan. 28. Previous winners include a project to use Penn robots as IED detectors (now a company in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia that uses drones to collect data from hazardous environments) and a low-cost robot to teach students STEM.

Companies: University of Pennsylvania

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