Robotics
A team of researchers at Beihang University, working with colleagues at Imperial College London and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, has developed a quadcopter drone that is capable of flying ...
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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Electronics & Semiconductors
Three-dimensional electronics (3-DE) is attracting much interest due to the increasing demands for seamless integration on curved surfaces. Nevertheless, it is challenging to develop 3-DE with high customizable conformity ...
Engineering
People love pasta for its shapes—from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of fusilli and rotini.
May 5, 2021
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Engineering
Think about your favorite t-shirt, the one you've worn a hundred times, and all the abuse you've put it through. You've washed it more times than you can remember, spilled on it, stretched it, crumbled it up, maybe even singed ...
Nov 11, 2020
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Engineering
Smartphones that don't scratch or shatter. Metal-free pacemakers. Electronics for space and other harsh environments. These could all be made possible thanks to a new ceramic welding technology developed by a team of engineers ...
Aug 22, 2019
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Robotics
In materials science and applied physics, researchers expect actuation systems to perform similarly to natural phenomena. As a classic example, scientists proposed to engineer bioinspired materials that mimicked the camouflage ...
Computer Sciences
Sure, computers can be used to play grandmaster-level chess (chess_computer), but can they make scientific discoveries? Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have ...
Jul 3, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers around the globe have been on a quest for batteries that pack a punch but are smaller and lighter than today's versions, potentially enabling electric cars to travel further or portable electronics to run for ...
Mar 28, 2019
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Engineering
Applying just a bit of strain to a piece of semiconductor or other crystalline material can deform the orderly arrangement of atoms in its structure enough to cause dramatic changes in its properties, such as the way it conducts ...
Feb 11, 2019
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