Energy & Green Tech
Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are among the most promising next-generation battery technologies due to their many advantageous characteristics. Most notably, these batteries have unique half-open structures, a significant theoretical ...
Energy & Green Tech
A common greenhouse gas could be repurposed in an efficient and environmentally friendly way with an electrolyzer that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels.
Sep 3, 2019
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Robotics
A new learning system developed by MIT researchers improves robots' abilities to mold materials into target shapes and make predictions about interacting with solid objects and liquids. The system, known as a learning-based ...
Apr 17, 2019
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Robotics
Yuichi Hirose has a dream—a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture.
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, batteries have become ubiquitous in consumers' daily lives. However, existing commercial battery technologies, which use liquid electrolytes and carbonaceous anodes, have certain drawbacks such as safety ...
Jul 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Solid-state batteries have several advantages: They can store more energy and are safer than batteries with liquid electrolytes. However, they do not last as long and their capacity decreases with each charge cycle. But it ...
Jul 10, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Rechargeable solid-state lithium batteries are an emerging technology that could someday power cell phones and laptops for days with a single charge. Offering significantly enhanced energy density, they are a safer alternative ...
Jul 9, 2024
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Robotics
Researchers have found a way to bind engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of humanoid robots. This brings with it potential benefits to robotic platforms such as increased mobility, self-healing abilities, embedded ...
Jun 25, 2024
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Engineering
Introducing the fashion of the future: A T-shirt that you can wear a few times, then, when you get bored with it, dissolve and recycle to make a new shirt.
Jun 17, 2024
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Engineering
Aerogels, known for their porosity and low density, are solid materials that offer versatile functionality—from gobbling up fat globules in weight-management supplements to facilitating more sustainable metal-recycling ...
Jun 4, 2024
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