Jeffrey F. (Jeff) Rhoads, a leading mechanical engineering researcher and pioneer in engineering education, has been appointed vice president for resear.
Building on years of growing engagement and collaboration with the defense, homeland security and intelligence communities, Purdue University is creating the Purdue Institute for National Security, a new interdisciplinary institute purposely structured to attract worldwide talent, advance national security and grow the defense ecosystem at and around the West Lafayette campus.
Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, having already developed ‘the world’s whitest paint’, have gone a step further and created a formulation [.]
This year’s Guinness World Records and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” both featured the world’s whitest paint, which maintains surfaces so cool that it could lessen the need for air conditioning.
The Purdue University researchers who created the world’s whitest paint (earlier post) have developed a new formulation that is thinner and lighter ideal for radiating heat away from cars, trains and airplanes. The original world’s whitest paint used nanoparticles of barium sulfate to reflect 98.1% of sunlight, cooling outdoor surfaces more.