Engineering
New lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes are lightweight, inflammable, pack a lot of energy, and can be recharged very quickly, but they have been slow to develop due to mysterious short circuiting and failure. ...
Jan 30, 2023
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Engineering
A discovery by MIT researchers could finally unlock the door to the design of a new kind of rechargeable lithium battery that is more lightweight, compact, and safe than current versions, and that has been pursued by labs ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Engineering
Someone taps your shoulder. The organized touch receptors in your skin send a message to your brain, which processes the information and directs you to look left, in the direction of the tap. Now, Penn State and U.S. Air ...
Aug 24, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have found a power-free and ultra-fast way of frequency tuning using functional nanowires.
Mar 18, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and collaborators have developed an organic photovoltaic film that is both waterproof and flexible, allowing a solar cell to be put onto clothes and still function ...
Mar 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers have documented for the first time the stresses that build up around solid-state battery electrolytes, helping set the stage for the development of improved and more efficient batteries. Scientists have long thought ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Robotics
Soft robots, or those made with materials like rubber, gels and cloth, have advantages over their harder, heavier counterparts, especially when it comes to tasks that require direct human interaction. Robots that could safely ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
As an integral part of its technological agenda, Russia is developing its own production of lithium-ion batteries. Despite the vast lithium reserves, battery production volumes fall short of the demand. Of special relevance ...
Oct 6, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Doing an experiment with a cake on a cookie sounds simple. But when researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) developed a unique dataset for combining 2D graphene and 3D tin, the process was all but simple—it ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Engineering
One of the many ways to reduce the energy required for transportation is to make vehicles lighter. High-strength (HS) steel is perfect candidate materials for this purpose, as its higher weight-to-strength ratio allows for ...
Mar 29, 2023
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