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Hydrogen fuel cell advance exceeds DOE-set targets for fuel cell performance and durability
As important as the internal combustion engine has been for societal progress, it is also a major contributor to pollution that damages human health and carbon emissions that help drive the climate crisis. Close to 30% of ...
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Algorithm learns to correct 3D printing errors for different parts, materials and systems
Engineers have created intelligent 3D printers that can quickly detect and correct errors, even in previously unseen designs, or unfamiliar materials like ketchup and mayonnaise, by learning from the experiences of other ...
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Team reports giant response of semiconductors to light
In an example of the adage "everything old is new again," MIT engineers report a new discovery in semiconductors, well-known materials that have been the focus of intense study for over 100 years thanks to their many applications ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Using ammonia to heal perovskite film for solar panel construction
Since 2009, scientists have suspected that perovskite films, which are a combination of organic and inorganic material, could be promising for solar panel construction. Perovskites are very thin films with a specific crystal ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Hardware
Sensor research helps fight wildfires
As climate change leads to larger and more frequent wildfires, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using sensors, drones and machine learning to both prevent fires and reduce their ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Engineering
Florida utility's new drone can speed hurricane recovery
Florida's primary energy provider is ready to launch a powerful new technology, just ahead of the busiest weeks of the Atlantic hurricane season: a new fixed-wing drone designed fly into tropical storm force winds and speed ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Shrinking the carbon footprint of timber construction
Developer Thrive Construct recently announced the world's tallest steel-timber hotel to be built at Victoria Square, Adelaide. Australia has caught onto the trend of building taller in timber, with other plans for three buildings ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Engineering
An ultrafast and highly performing nonlinear splitter based on lithium niobate
Optics, technologies that leverage the behavior and properties of light, are the basis of many existing technological tools, most notably fiber communication systems that enable long- and short-distance high-speed communication ...
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Researchers develop new faster charging hydrogen fuel cell
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have developed a new method to improve solid-state hydrogen fuel cell charging times.
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Work on recycling energy using piezoelectric fiber finds solutions in the shapes of flowers and stems of plants
A research team led by Lim Sang-kyoo, senior researcher of the Division of Energy Technology at DGIST (President Kuk Yang) developed a piezoelectric polymer/ceramic composite fiber with a cross-sectional form that is uniformly ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Robotics
How a slender, snake-like robot could give doctors new ways to save lives
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimeters in diameter, for use in ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Eco-friendly solar cells improve power generation efficiency by resolving defects
The DGIST Thin Film Solar Cell Research Center worked with Professor Kim Se-yoon of the Department of New Material Engineering at Kyungnam University to investigate the cause of pore formation, a problem in CZTS thin-film ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Farmers can save water with wireless technologies, but there are challenges, like transmitting data through mud
Water is the most essential resource for life, for both humans and the crops we consume. Around the world, agriculture accounts for 70% of all freshwater use.
Aug 12, 2022
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A flexible, rod-driven soft robot for biomedical applications
Soft robots that can complete tasks with high efficiency, accuracy and precision could have numerous valuable applications. For instance, they could be introduced in medical settings, helping doctors to carry out complex ...
Aug 11, 2022 feature
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