Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate student Akriti was recently named 2020 recipient of the Arvind and Karen Varma Fellowship. Created in 2019, the Varma Fellowship supports Purdue Chemical Engineering graduate students with outstanding academic and research performance.

A multi-institution team of researchers led by the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University has made a breakthrough in the flexible solar cell field. Their findings contribute to the development of solar cells on flexible surfaces, including ultra-flexible and wearable energy-harvesting devices. The team published their research on self-healable perovskite solar cells in the recent issue of Cell Reports Physical Science.

American Resources Corp. has acquired exclusive rights to critical rare-earth element separation and purification technologies from Hasler Ventures LLC and Purdue University, officials announced on February 2. The environmentally safer method uses ligand-assisted chromatography for separation and purification of rare-earth and other critical elements from coal, coal byproducts, recycled permanent magnets and lithium ion batteries. The technology was developed in the laboratory of Dr. Linda Wang, Purdue's Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Purdue College of Engineering has announced the Dean's List and Semester Honors, which recognize students that have achieved high scholastic standing cumulatively and/or for the semester.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate student Swapnil Deshmukh recently won second place in the 2020 AIChE Graduate Student Award Competition in the Inorganic Chemistry Area (08D) for his research in "Synthesis of Metal Chalcogenide Nanoparticles and Micro-assemblies Using Facile Amine-Thiol Solvent Chemistry for Applications in the Field of Semiconducting Materials."