Past News
Innovative material for soft sensor could bring new tactile tech
October 23, 2017
A new type of soft and stretchable sensor could find uses in applications ranging from athletics and health monitoring to prosthetics and virtual reality. The technology, called iSoft, is capable of sensing in real-time, or without delay, and can perform “multimodal” sensing, or sensing a variety of stimuli such as continuous contact and stretching in all directions.
Innovative material for soft sensor could bring new tactile tech
Purdue faculty, Indiana housing pair up to research energy use
October 12, 2017
Residents in several Indiana communities are part of new Purdue research determining how households consume energy. Panagiota Karava, an associate professor of civil engineering in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, is heading up the four-year research project, which involves faculty from eight Purdue schools and departments.
Purdue faculty, Indiana housing pair up to research energy use
Apple trees bear more fruit when surrounded by good neighbors
October 11, 2017
Research led by Purdue University professor Peter Hirst shows that pollen from some apple trees may be better for pollinating high-value apples.
Apple trees bear more fruit when surrounded by good neighbors
Purdue leads climate change initiative to help Hoosiers better understand risks
October 11, 2017
Purdue University’s Climate Change Research Center is leading a new statewide initiative to compile the latest scientific research into a series of reports designed to provide Indiana decision makers with accessible, understandable and timely information about climate change impacts.
Purdue leads climate change initiative to help Hoosiers better understand risks
Purdue innovation could provide inexpensive, clean way for US to enter $4 billion market to recover rare earth elements
October 11, 2017
New efficient and inexpensive technologies being developed at Purdue University could allow the extraction of rare earth elements, critical components of many electronics and green products, from waste coal ash. This innovation could enable the U.S. to enter into the $4 billion rare earth element production market while recycling coal ash in an environmentally friendly way. The value of the products that require rare earth metals is valued at more than $4 trillion per year.
Single ‘solitons’ promising for optical technologies
October 9, 2017
Researchers are a step closer to harnessing single pulses of light called solitons, using tiny ring-shaped microresonators, in findings that could aid efforts to develop advanced sensors, high-speed optical communications and research tools.
Technology that led to the recent Nobel Prize was critical in Purdue’s study of the Zika virus structure
October 6, 2017
Purdue University researchers Michael Rossmann and Richard Kuhn have been at the forefront of discovery with the help of a technology that recently led to a Nobel Prize in chemistry for three scientists. It’s called cryo-electron microscopy, a technology that allows scientists to see complex biological specimens, including viruses, at almost atomic-scale resolution.
Ancient asteroid impact exposes the moon’s interior
October 4, 2017
Scientists have long assumed that all the planets in our solar system look the same beneath the surface, but a study published in Geology on Oct. 4 tells a different story.
Inverter improvement clears way for smaller, more efficient motor drive systems for electric vehicles
October 4, 2017
Oleg Wasynczuk, a professor in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Minyu Cai, a recent Ph.D. graduate have found a way to make smaller, more efficient motor drive systems for hybrid and electric cars, trucks, trains, ships and aircraft.
California animal welfare laws led to higher egg prices, lower production
October 2, 2017
Laws that changed animal confinement standards in California raised the price of eggs dramatically upon adoption and have kept prices higher than had the laws not been enacted, according to a Purdue University study. An analysis of the laws’ effects on egg production and prices in California could inform other states considering similar legislation.
California animal welfare laws led to higher egg prices, lower production
