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Cobalt-free batteries: The long goodbye

Lithium-ion batteries make use of cobalt for stability. The use of cobalt, nonetheless, has its drawbacks. The drawbacks have to do with cost, and with availability, and the two as usual are intertwined.

Jun 12, 2018 weblog

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Now, you can 3-D print clay, cookie dough – or solid rocket fuel

It's now possible to 3-D print extremely viscous materials, with the consistency of clay or cookie dough with fine precision, thanks to work done at Purdue University. This development may soon allow the creation of customized ...

Jun 12, 2018

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Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite have achieved record efficiency of 25.2 percent

In the field of photovoltaic technologies, silicon-based solar cells make up 90 percent of the market. In terms of cost, stability and efficiency (20-22 percent for a typical solar cell on the market), they are well ahead ...

Jun 12, 2018

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AI senses people's pose through walls

X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but over the last decade a team led by Professor Dina Katabi from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has continually gotten ...

Jun 12, 2018

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12/06/2018

Cobalt-free batteries: The long goodbye

Now, you can 3-D print clay, cookie dough – or solid rocket fuel

Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite have achieved record efficiency of 25.2 percent

AI senses people's pose through walls

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12/06/2018

Cobalt-free batteries: The long goodbye

Now, you can 3-D print clay, cookie dough – or solid rocket fuel

Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite have achieved record efficiency of 25.2 percent

AI senses people's pose through walls

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