Researchers discover potential method to convert food waste into batteries
What do apple cores, spent grain, and walnut shells have in common? They could one day be used to power a data center.
Oct 29, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
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Robotics
New soft robot morphs from a ground to air vehicle using liquid metal
Imagine a small autonomous vehicle that could drive over land, stop, and flatten itself into a quadcopter. The rotors start spinning, and the vehicle flies away. Looking at it more closely, what do you think you would see? ...
Feb 9, 2022
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Engineering
'Fog harp' harvests water even in the lightest fog
What do you get when you cross a novel approach to water harvesting with a light fog? The answer: a lot more water than you expected.
Apr 17, 2020
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Engineering
A star in the world of ceramic engineering
Compared to metal and polymer-based materials, ceramics can better withstand high temperatures and corrosive environments, but their brittle nature often makes them susceptible to breakage. This behavior potentially causes ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Researchers create first-of-its-kind composable storage platform for high-performance computing
Large-scale, advanced high-performance computing, often called supercomputing, is essential to solving both complex and large questions.
Nov 12, 2018
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Engineering
Underwater glove puts octopus' abilities on the hand of humans
A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Michael Bartlett have developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely gripping objects underwater. Their research was selected for the July 13 cover of Science Advances.
Jul 13, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Using artificial intelligence to advance energy technologies
Hongliang Xin, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, and his collaborators have devised a new artificial intelligence framework that can accelerate discovery of materials for important ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Robotics
Bracing for busier skies with drone traffic management research
Over eight days of testing, 369 drone flights launched and landed at a rural test site outside Blacksburg. In a slice of airspace that covered less than a quarter of a mile, as many as 12 aircraft were sometimes flying at ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Study examines keys to developing better batteries
It doesn't come on fast. It may take weeks to notice. You have the newly recharged lithium-ion AA batteries in the wireless kitty water fountain, and they last two days. They once lasted a week or more. Another round of charging, ...
Apr 28, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Harvesting energy from moving trains
The Virginia Tech Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety (CVeSS) and the Railway Technologies Laboratory want to harness the energy created by moving trains and transform that energy into usable electricity.
Jan 25, 2023
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