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Purdue researchers develop a new type of intelligent architected materials for industry applications
- September 28, 2023
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Products made with intelligent architected materials developed at Purdue University have the ability to change from one stable configuration to another stable configuration and back again. The technology is being tested in new aircraft runway mats, nonpneumatic tires and other applications. Purdue University civil engineers are testing materials for transportation, military and other real-world applications… Learn More >

LeafSpec LLC, a Purdue-connected ag-tech startup, to compete for $3 million in prizes in November
- September 27, 2023
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Jian Jin is an associate professor in Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and president and CEO of LeafSpec LLC. The company has been named one of 20 international startups to compete at the Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit in mid-November. (Purdue Research Foundation image/Hope Sale) Company is one of 20 international food… Learn More >

Purdue researcher awarded $1.3 million for malaria drug trials in Southeast Asia and Africa
- September 15, 2023
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Philip Low, Purdue University’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Science, has been awarded $1.38 million from Open Philanthropy to further validate a drug therapy that he and his colleagues have previously shown to successfully treat malaria. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood) Philip Low… Learn More >

Purdue recognized as national innovation leader: 4th among US universities in US patents received
- September 12, 2023
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Purdue Research Foundation received 192 US patents in 2022 calendar year to protect intellectual property WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A national organization dedicated to inventors at academic institutions has recognized Purdue University’s innovation culture and technology transfer resources as among the best in the nation. In the 2022 calendar year, Purdue Research Foundation received 192… Learn More >

IHT Group to manufacture, sell hog-cooling technology developed at Purdue
- August 30, 2023
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Robert M. Stwalley III, clinical associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, shows a cooling pad designed to keep hogs cool. IHT Group of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has signed an exclusive license and will manufacture and sell the pads in North America beginning spring 2024. (Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell)… Learn More >

Purdue streak camera innovation could capture actions that last femtoseconds or less
- August 30, 2023
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Colton Fruhling, postdoctoral researcher (left), and Mustafa Goksu Ozlu, graduate research assistant in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, analyze data created by simulated tests of a streak camera. The patent-pending technology uses all-optical mechanisms, which have the potential to record actions that last a femtosecond, or one-quadrillionth of a second.… Learn More >

Purdue thermal imaging innovation allows AI to see through pitch darkness like broad daylight
- August 1, 2023
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HADAR, or heat-assisted detection and ranging, combines thermal physics, infrared imaging and machine learning to pave the way to fully passive and physics-aware machine perception. Research led by Zubin Jacob, the Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and research scientist Fanglin Bao of Purdue University has been published as the cover story of… Learn More >

Purdue researchers receive $118,000 to develop freeze-drying, meat validation and thermal imaging innovations
- July 13, 2023
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Ahmad Darwish, senior research associate at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, prepares a lyophilization, or freeze-drying, experiment at the LyoHUB Technology Demonstration Facility in Birck Nanotechnology Center. Purdue researcher Alina Alexeenko has received funding from the Trask Innovation Fund to further develop lyophilization innovations and bring them to the marketplace.… Learn More >

Amplified Sciences receives $400,000 NCI grant to improve early detection of pancreatic cancer
- July 12, 2023
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Purdue University researcher V. Jo Davisson and CEO Diana Caldwell are the founders of Amplified Sciences, a clinical-stage life sciences diagnostic company that focuses on accurately detecting and categorically assessing the risks of debilitating diseases. The National Cancer Institute has awarded Amplified Sciences a grant of approximately $400,000 to develop a test to determine if… Learn More >

Purdue researchers fabricate sensors with potential health-monitoring applications onto ready-made wearables
- July 10, 2023
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Using a robotic hand, Jinwook Baek (left), postdoctoral research assistant, and Sunghwan Lee, assistant professor of engineering technology, examine how a flexible and wearable sensor could be used to monitor health information and manipulate a small object (ball). (Purdue University photo/John O’Malley) Patent-pending technique creates sensors that demonstrate high flexibility and strain sensitivity but don’t… Learn More >