Engineering
- Hybrid solar concept promising for future energy production
- Study: Environmental policies matter for growing megacities
- 'Metasurfaces' to usher in new optical technologies
- 'Nanoresonators' might improve cell phone performance
- New effort to create green electronics, workforce
- New '4-D' transistor is preview of future computers
- Sliding metals show fluidlike behavior, new clues to wear
- New biochip technology uses tiny whirlpools to corral microbes
- Scotch tape finds new use as grasping 'smart material'
- New tools to aid in recycling flat-screen monitors, TVs
- New tool gives structural strength to 3-D printed works
- New design tool nixes mouse; users create shapes with hands only
- 'Nano machine shop' shapes nanowires, ultrathin films
- Origami-inspired design method merges engineering, art
- Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules'
- Tiny 'spherules' reveal details about Earth's asteroid impacts
- 'PolyZoom is new tool to view, study graphics
- New firewall to safeguard against medical-device hacking
- New microtweezers may build tiny 'MEMS' structures
- New device could bring optical information processing
- 'Nanoantennas' show promise in optical innovations
- New technology uses solar UV to disinfect drinking water
- Students building rocket for moon vehicle
- New 'core wall' may speed skyscraper construction
- New translator app makes sense of foreign-language food menus
- Tiny oxygen generators boost effectiveness of anticancer treatment
- Engineers test effects of fire on steel structures, nuclear plant design
- Laser, electric fields combined for new 'lab-on-chip' technologies
- Genius of Einstein, Fourier key to new humanlike computer vision
- New electronics material closer to commercial reality
- Purdue lab works to improve conditions at indoor swimming pools
- Discovery could lead to new ways to create nano-fibers and wires
- System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
- New technology has dramatic chip-cooling potential for future computers
- 'Sticky nanotubes' hold key to future technologies
- Engineers create 'optical cloaking' design for invisibility
- Study: Airbags, antilock brakes not likely to reduce accidents, injuries
- Purdue engineers solve chaos mystery in use of high-tech microscope
- Purdue 'metamaterial' could lead to better optics, communications
- Purdue team to float high-altitude airship for weather, security
- Future surgeons may use robotic nurse, 'gesture recognition'
- Engineers improving programs needed for nuclear reactor safety
- Study: Higher interstate speed limit proves safe for Indiana
- Findings a step toward making new optical materials
- Engineers make first 'active matrix' display using nanowires
- New materials may bring advanced optical technologies, cloaking
- New lab-on-chip advance uses low-cost, disposable paper strips
- Technology uses auto exhaust heat to create electricity, boost mileage
- New heart pump to provide temporary assist for infants, adults
- System would help Haiti build, modify earthquake-prone structures
- Brain changes found in football players thought to be concussion-free
- Innovation could bring super-accurate sensors, crime forensics
- New findings promising for 'transformation optics,' cloaking
- Nanowick at heart of new system to cool 'power electronics'
- 'Econophysics' points way to fair salaries in free market
- New biofuels processing method for mobile facilities
- New system to reduce heating costs in cold climates
- New process is promising for hydrogen fuel cell cars
- Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes
- New method manipulates particles for sensors, crime scene testing
- New automated tool 'debugs' nuclear weapon simulations
- Ultrasensitive imaging method uses gold-silver 'nanocages'
- 'Microrings' could nix wires for communications in homes, offices
- Purdue tests nuclear plant design at Bowen Lab
- 'Ferropaper' is new technology for small motors, robots
- Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics
- New 'finFET' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips
- New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO pay
- Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics
- New findings could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool
- Laser processes promise better artificial joints, arterial stents
- New nanolaser key to future optical computers and technologies
- Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter,amplify electronic signals
- Research findings contradict myth of high engineering dropout rate
- 'Smart turbine blades' to improve wind power
- Energy-saving method checks refrigerant level in air conditioners
- 'Bluetooth' signals show airport security-line waiting times
- New 'broadband' cloaking technology simple to manufacture
- High-tech speed bump detects damage to Army vehicles
- Purdue report details Indiana coal use, needs
- Indiana has promising sites for underground coal 'gasification' plants
- Simple method strengthens schools, other buildings against earthquakes
- New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses in cardiac cells
- Nano-tetherball biosensor precisely detects glucose
- Researchers cooking up new gelled rocket fuels
- New holographic method could be used for lab-on-a-chip technologies
- Study finds many motorists don't see need to heed speed limits
- 'Buckyballs' have high potential to accumulate in living tissue
- 'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality