David S. Corti, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Elias Franses, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, and graduate student, An-Hsuan (Andy) Hsieh have unexpectedly discovered liquid-like dispersions with iridescent colors which were previously only observed in solid systems, such as gemstones, or in feathers and butterfly wings.

Purdue ChE’s Prof. Jeffrey Greeley, together with students Pushkar Ghanekar and Siddharth Deshpande, have proposed a new computational method to accelerate development of heterogeneous catalysts for energy and environmental applications.

The Owens Corning Early Career Award recognizes outstanding independent contributions to the scientific, technological, educational or service areas of materials science and engineering.

Xiaoping Bao, professor of chemical engineering from the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, published research about a method to produce off-the-shelf human immune cells that show strong antitumor activity, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports.