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A wheelchair prototype designed by teams of recent graduates from the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, College of Engineering and College of Science is being developed to help passengers navigate airports and travel through airplane aisles. (Purdue University photo/Zach Rodimel) FAA award-winning, patent-pending design travels omnidirectionally and has an adjustable base WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Teams of… Learn More >

Darker areas show how far phase change materials, or PCMs, have penetrated the pores of construction materials that spent 15 minutes, 1 hour and 4 hours in a process developed by Mirian Velay-Lizancos, a Purdue assistant professor of civil engineering, and her research team. The process improves upon the traditional method to incorporate PCMs into… Learn More >

Meena L. Narsimhan, PhD, of Novilytic examines the Proteometer-L in the company’s labs. It enables process R&D scientists and drug manufacturers to recognize when a product run is going awry in near-real-time. (Photo courtesy of Novilytic) Kit provides speedy analysis of pharmaceutical batch runs WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Novilytic LLC, a molecular-recognition company that uses… Learn More >

HemaChrome has introduced a simple mobile health app that noninvasively measures blood hemoglobin using a digital photo or screenshot taken with an everyday smartphone or computer, making blood hemoglobin testing accessible to nearly everyone, anywhere, at a fraction of the cost. Founded by Purdue University researcher Young Kim, HemaChrome won phase 1 of the National… Learn More >

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University innovators who create new processes and products need capital, among other resources, to bring their ideas to reality. A Purdue fund is making financial support available to help them further develop their work. Researchers from the College of Agriculture and College of Engineering have received more than $143,000 from… Learn More >

OmniVis, which makes hand-held devices to detect pathogens, will use the funding to launch a field pilot WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – OmniVis, which focuses on the speed, accuracy and economics of pathogen detection, has received $100,000 from the Purdue Ag-Celerator, an agriculture innovation fund. OmniVis makes iSpyDx hand-held devices that rapidly detect pathogens in food,… Learn More >

Congratulations to Heliponix LLC, doing business as anu, on receiving a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation. Anu’s products allow people to grow produce in their homes. “Produce is harvested when consumers are hungry rather than everything being harvested at the same time, which requires preservation of the produce. It simply stays alive and… Learn More >

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN – Stratolaunch LLC and Purdue University are pleased to announce they have established a partnership dedicated to accelerating the time required to design, build, test and fly hypersonic vehicles. Stratolaunch will establish the Stratolaunch Advanced Programs Office at the Convergence Center in Purdue’s Discovery Park District in West Lafayette, Indiana, to ensure… Learn More >

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers have created new, multifunctional ligands that improve the charge transfer, power conversion capability and long-term stability of perovskite solar cells. Perovskite is a material that can be formed from different elements to have a variety of electrical, optical and physical characteristics. Perovskite can be manufactured as solar cells… Learn More >

Philip Low, Purdue’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Science, is an inventor of Cytalux. View the full story here! Learn More >