Engineers study icing/de-icing of wind turbine blades to improve winter power production
In Hui Hu's Iowa State University office, you can feel exactly what ice does to an airfoil.
Sep 24, 2019
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Engineering
Researchers flip how electrical signals move liquid droplets
When medical laboratories analyze blood samples for signs of disease, they sometimes use instruments that rely on a technology called digital microfluidics. The technique uses electric signals to pull tiny droplets of the ...
Aug 27, 2019
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Robotics
Researchers create 3-D-printed soft mesh robots
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created 3-D-printed flexible mesh structures that can be controlled with applied magnetic fields while floating on water. The structures can grab small objects and carry ...
Jan 23, 2019
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Printing with sound: Researchers use acoustic forces to print droplets that couldn't be printed before
Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses sound waves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity. This technique could finally enable the ...
Aug 31, 2018
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New system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for parched cities around the world while also cutting power plant operating costs.
Jun 8, 2018
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The prototype of a chemical computer detects a sphere
Researchers in Warsaw have developed a system that uses chemistry to make computations. After an appropriate teaching procedure, even a relatively simple chemical system can perform non-trivial operations. In their most recent ...
Mar 10, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
Increasing the efficiency of fuel cells could lead to more widespread use of zero-emissions vehicles
On an average weekday, the air in Beijing can be so choked with smog that entire buildings disappear from view. Emissions from heavy industry and coal power plants are largely to blame, but so too are the nearly 5 million ...
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Boulder swarm effort turns to crowdfunding for Droplet mobile robots (w/ video)
University of Colorado, Boulder researchers seek to build a swarm of Droplet robots and have turned to crowdfunding. They have been working on a robotic platform to study swarming behavior; their goals are to test swarming ...
Drop (liquid)
A drop or droplet is a small volume of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces. A drop may form when liquid accumulates at the lower end of a tube or other surface boundary, producing a hanging drop called a pendant drop. Drops may also be formed by the condensation of a vapor or by atomization of a larger mass of liquid.
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