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Fractal-based metamaterial improves sound fields in car cabins

Car enthusiasts will pay hundreds of dollars for stereo systems that will improve the sound quality in their cars. However, the inherent directionality of speakers and complex shapes of car cabins can exacerbate sound disparities ...

Computer Sciences

3D worlds created from just a few phone photos

Existing 3D scene reconstructions require a cumbersome process of precisely measuring physical spaces with LiDAR or 3D scanners, or correcting thousands of photos along with camera pose information. A research team at KAIST ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

'Living metal' could bridge biological and electronic systems

Electronics have been transforming from rigid, lifeless systems into adaptive, living platforms capable of seamlessly interacting with biological environments. Researchers at Binghamton University are pioneering "living metal" ...

Energy & Green Tech

Proposed all-climate battery design could unlock stability in extreme temps

Despite lithium-ion (Li) batteries' role as one of the most widely used forms of energy storage, they struggle to operate at full power in low temperatures and sometimes even explode at high temperatures. Researchers at Penn ...

Engineering

Newly developed knitting machine makes solid 3D objects

A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction—forward, backward and diagonal—so users can construct a wide variety of shapes and add stiffness to different parts ...

Energy & Green Tech

Cooling paint harvests water from thin air

Researchers at the University of Sydney and start-up Dewpoint Innovations have developed a nanoengineered polymer paint-like coating that can passively cool buildings and capture water directly from the air—all without ...

Energy & Green Tech

Ultra-black nanoneedles absorb 99.5% of light for future solar towers

Using state-of-the-art equipment, researchers in the Thermophysical Properties of Materials group from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) have analyzed the capacity of ultra-black copper cobaltate nanoneedles to effectively ...

Software

This digital hand enables hands-free virtual reality

A digital, voice-controlled hand could improve the convenience and accessibility of virtual and augmented reality by enabling hands-free use of games and apps. The prototype software was developed by computer scientists at ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Textile nerves—a new thread in the future of wearable electronics

What if your clothes could sense, respond, and even help you move? That's the vision behind the doctoral project on "textile nerves"—conductive fibers designed for electronic and ionotronic textiles. Claude Huniade, who ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Prototype LED as thin as wallpaper can glow like the sun

Light bulbs come in many shapes and styles: globes, twists, flame-like candle tips and long tubes. But there aren't many thin options. Now, researchers report in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that they have created a ...

Energy & Green Tech

High-performance supercapacitor made from upcycled water bottles

Lots of single-use water bottles made from poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) end up in landfills, but there's a growing interest in upcycling them instead. Researchers in Energy & Fuels report on new heat-based fabrication ...

Energy & Green Tech

Hybrid film boosts energy harvesting from motion by up to 450%

A new study led by (PI) Professor M. Jasim Uddin, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has been published in ACS Omega, advancing the frontier of sustainable, self-powered technologies.

Energy & Green Tech

Concrete 'battery' now packs 10 times the power

Concrete already builds our world, and now it's one step closer to powering it, too. Made by combining cement, water, ultra-fine carbon black (with nanoscale particles), and electrolytes, electron-conducting carbon concrete ...