A foldable material that can change size, volume and shape
Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch.
Mar 11, 2016
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News tagged with biological materials
Engineering
Pressure-driven distillation for fast and selective water purification
Membrane technologies can provide efficient purification of unclear water sources to address a growing water shortage. However, when engineers develop state-of-the-art membranes, they are constrained by a lack of selectivity ...
Engineering
Objects can now be 3D-printed in opaque resin
A team of EPFL engineers has developed a 3D-printing method that uses light to make objects out of opaque resin in a matter of seconds. Their breakthrough could have promising applications in the biomedical industry, such ...
May 23, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Paper offers perspective on future of brain-inspired AI as Python code library passes major milestone
Four years ago, UC Santa Cruz's Jason Eshraghian developed a Python library that combines neuroscience with artificial intelligence to create spiking neural networks, a machine learning method that takes inspiration from ...
Nov 17, 2023
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Robotics
Aquabots: Ultrasoft liquid robots for biomedical and environmental applications
In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide variety of robotic systems with different body structures and capabilities. Most of these robots are either made of hard materials, such as metals, or soft materials, such ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Hybrid transistors with silk protein set stage for integration of biology and microelectronics
Your phone may have more than 15 billion tiny transistors packed into its microprocessor chips. The transistors are made of silicon, metals like gold and copper, and insulators that together take an electric current and convert ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Study highlights the potential of neuromorphic architectures to perform random walk computations
Over the past decade or so, many researchers worldwide have been trying to develop brain-inspired computer systems, also known as neuromorphic computing tools. The majority of these systems are currently used to run deep ...
Energy & Green Tech
Chloride ions from seawater could replace lithium in batteries of the future
Sodium, potassium and zinc have all been promising contenders for lithium's place in rechargeable batteries of the future, but researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have added an unusual and more abundant competitor ...
Aug 10, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A sustainable battery with a biodegradable electrolyte made from crab shells
Accelerating demand for renewable energy and electric vehicles is sparking a high demand for the batteries that store generated energy and power engines. But the batteries behind these sustainability solutions aren't always ...
Sep 1, 2022
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Engineering
Creating 3D objects with sound
Scientists from the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials at Heidelberg University have created a ...
Feb 9, 2023
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