Engineering
Fusion vessels have a Goldilocks problem: The plasma within needs to be hot enough to generate net power, but if it's too hot, it can damage the vessel's interior. Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) ...
Jul 23, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Scientists have achieved a series of milestones in growing a high-quality thin film conductor, suggesting in a new study that the material is a promising candidate platform for future wearable electronics and other miniature ...
Jul 18, 2024
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Engineering
Power plants, factories, car engines—everything that consumes energy produces heat, much of which is wasted. Thermoelectric devices could capture this wasted heat and convert it into electricity, but their production has ...
Jul 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, engineers have introduced a wide range of photovoltaic (PV) solutions that could facilitate the sustainable generation of electricity worldwide. These include organic solar cells (OSCs), PV devices that use ...
Robotics
Eindhoven researchers have developed a soft robotic "hand" made from liquid crystals and graphene that could be used to design future surgical robots. The new work has just been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials ...
Jun 18, 2024
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Robotics
Engineers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have combined ancient paper-folding and modern materials science to create a soft robot that bends and twists through mazes with ease.
May 6, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The electrode sheet of a thermoelectric device consists of ionic hydrogel, which is sandwiched between the electrodes to form, and the Prussian blue on the electrode undergoes a redox reaction to improve the energy density ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Engineering
If you've looked in your utility drawer lately, you may have noticed the various shapes, sizes and types of batteries that power your electronic devices. First, there are the round, non-rechargeable button cells for your ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Engineering
When FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Professor Fang Peng was a boy, he saw the power and peril of electricity firsthand. He was in middle school when his remote Chinese hometown first received electric service. His family ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Meeting Canada's ambitious net-zero emissions target by 2050 necessitates significant technological, behavioral and systemic changes in the transportation sector, a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. ...
Mar 18, 2024
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