What if paint could cool off a building enough to not need air conditioning? Xiulin Ruan has pioneered radiative cooling paint; instead of absorbing sunlight, it radiates the heat back into space. This actually cools surfaces below ambient temperature, something paint has never done before.
Andrea Vacca was recently appointed the Maha Fluid Power Faculty Chair. In this profile, he describes how he came to direct the largest academic hydraulics lab in the country.
A tiny rectangular robot can travel through a colon by doing back flips, as demonstrated in live animal models for the very first time by David Cappelleri.
The Frontiers webinar series brings together experts from 10 of the top STEM universities in the country. This Friday at 3:30 pm, Chris Goldenstein will discuss "Advancements in high-bandwidth laser-absorption diagnostics for combustion of energetic materials."
Prof. Song Zhang is hosting the first International Forum on 3D Optical Sensing and Applications (IFOSA), beginning this Saturday, October 17 (Beijing time)! All presentations will be streamed online, and it's free to register!
Congratulations to Jessica Traver Ingram (BSME '14, MSME '17), receiving the Young Engineering Alumnus Award from Purdue's Engineering Alumni Association. Jessica is the co-founder and CEO of Houston-based startup IntuiTap Medical.
Breast cancer cells move and stretch whenever a patient breathes. Adrian Buganza helped to map the mechanical movement of these cells, as part of a new testing platform developed by a multidisciplinary team at Purdue.