Researchers at Purdue University have created a technology to address the thickness issue for wearable power generation. They developed a woven, thermoelectric flexible fabric that is potentially thinner than a millimeter.
It has been suggested that the expansion in palm oil production is driven by biofuel production in U.S. but a Purdue University study shows that only a scant fraction of the deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia can be pinned on U.S. biofuel production and policy.
AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial software provider, has received a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from NASA. The STTR award will help the company further develop its SwiftComp software, technology that provides efficient, high-fidelity modeling of deployable structures made of high-strain composites.
Researchers are studying ways to prevent a polymer’s “mechanical breathing,” an effect that causes the layers of a smart window to delaminate.
Scientists at Purdue University have created the world’s fastest-spinning human-made object and the most sensitive torque detector by suspending a nanoparticle in a vacuum with a laser, and then using a second laser to test its torque sensitivity. The object revolves at 300 billion revolutions per minute. Or, put another way, half a million times faster than a dentist’s drill.
Purdue University researchers are aiming to stump drug counterfeiters with an edible “security tag” embedded into medicine. To imitate the drug, a counterfeiter would have to uncrack a complicated puzzle of patterns not fully visible to the naked eye.
Chongli Yuan, a Purdue University chemical engineering professor, is a leader of Purdue’s section of a multidisciplinary team studying the possibility of building synthetic neuron cells as a possible solution to the replacement of damaged or dead neurons.
Purdue University researchers have designed a novel approach to use deep learning to better understand how proteins interact in the body.
A Purdue University study may hold the key to accurately and consistently producing microbubbles that could be used for cleaning, as well as foams used in foods, rapid DNA and protein assessments, destroying dangerous bacteria and more.
Noticing the protein’s brown color, Iskander Ibrahim and Sujith Puthiyaveetil (right) determined that CSK contains an iron-sulfur cluster that senses electron transport during photosynthesis. The CSK protein plays a key role in balancing light energy conversion by cyanobacteria and chloroplasts.