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From artisanal to automatic: Purdue tool allows greater control, speed for semiconductor manufacture

Users can customize a recipe to peel 1-atom-thick 2D materials like graphene from a surface and affix it onto another  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University engineers have developed a patent-pending tool to make the manufacture of ultrathin semiconductors more consistent, controllable and repeatable than traditional methods. Thomas Beechem, an associate professor of mechanical engineering…

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Wheelchair prototype safely navigates passengers through airports to aircraft seats

FAA award-winning, patent-pending design travels omnidirectionally and has an adjustable base WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Teams of recent Purdue University graduates have honed a patent-pending, dynamically adjustable wheelchair prototype designed to help users more efficiently and safely navigate airports, board aircraft and move through narrow aisleways to their seats. A nine-minute video about the work…

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