Past News
NASA to help fund AnalySwift, Purdue technology shown to speed design of composite deployable structures
January 21, 2020
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.
NASA to help fund AnalySwift, Purdue technology shown to speed design of composite deployable structures
‘Mechanical breathing’ in smart windows
January 17, 2020
Researchers are studying ways to prevent a polymer’s “mechanical breathing,” an effect that causes the layers of a smart window to delaminate.
Light powers world's fastest-spinning object
January 16, 2020
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.
Edible ‘security tag’ to protect drugs from counterfeit
January 16, 2020
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.
Purdue’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources breaking ground on new wildlife care facility
January 16, 2020
Purdue University’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) is breaking ground on a new wildlife care facility this spring.
Purdue’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources breaking ground on new wildlife care facility
Synthetic neurons project offers platform for disease treatment, further brain research
January 9, 2020
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.
Synthetic neurons project offers platform for disease treatment, further brain research
Deep learning, 3D technology to improve structure modeling for protein interactions, create better drugs
January 9, 2020
Purdue University researchers have designed a novel approach to use deep learning to better understand how proteins interact in the body.
Deep learning, 3D technology to improve structure modeling for protein interactions, create better drugs
Microbubble findings could reduce chemical, water use in food processing
January 8, 2020
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.
Microbubble findings could reduce chemical, water use in food processing
Ancient iron-sulfur-based mechanism monitors electron flow in photosynthesis
January 8, 2020
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.
Ancient iron-sulfur-based mechanism monitors electron flow in photosynthesis
Purdue scientists develop way to track salmonella infection in real time
January 7, 2020
W. Andy Tao, a Purdue University professor of biochemistry, and colleagues have developed a method to implant a chemical label that acts like a GPS tracker into live salmonella bacteria. Once inside the bacteria, the probe can be captured at any given time, showing in real time the proteins interacting with the bacteria.
Purdue scientists develop way to track salmonella infection in real time
