Smart material switches between heating and cooling in minutes
As anyone who has ever parked a car in the sun on a hot summer day knows, glass windows are great at letting sunlight in but terrible at allowing heat out.
Oct 26, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
As anyone who has ever parked a car in the sun on a hot summer day knows, glass windows are great at letting sunlight in but terrible at allowing heat out.
Oct 26, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
In pursuit of batteries that deliver more power and operate more safely, researchers are working to replace the liquids commonly used in today's lithium ion batteries with solid materials. Now, a research team from Brown ...
Oct 21, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Our electrical infrastructure has remained largely unchanged since World War II, but advances in technology—specifically materials—opened doors we never would have thought possible in the past. These advances have set ...
Aug 13, 2021
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A new material designed by researchers at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering combines the flexibility of human skin with improved conductivity and tolerance of temperatures as low as -93 C.
Aug 5, 2021
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Engineering
Since its invention in the 1980s, the tapping method has been used to guide visually impaired swimmers in the pool.
Jul 30, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which are a renewable source of energy for electrical devices or electric vehicles, have attracted much attention as the next-generation energy solution. However, the anodes of LIBs in use today ...
Jul 22, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
As silicon-based technology reaches its absolute limits, a material engineered by University of Queensland researchers could herald the next generation of electronics with more memory, faster speeds and advanced features.
Jul 8, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a chlorine (Cl) substituted Na3SbS4 solid electrolyte for use in all-solid-state sodium ...
Jul 6, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Want a smartphone that stretches, takes damage, and still doesn't miss a call?
Jun 26, 2021
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Engineering
NIMS has developed low-temperature-catalyzed, solution-processed SiO2 (LCSS), which subsequently enabled printing of high-performance thin-film transistors (TFTs) and three-dimensional circuits connecting various elements. ...
Jun 23, 2021
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