Electronics & Semiconductors
More than two-thirds of the energy used worldwide is ultimately ejected as "waste heat." Within that reservoir of discarded energy lies a great and largely untapped opportunity, claim scientists in MIT's Department of Nuclear ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Engineering
In an impressive proof-of-concept demonstration, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has developed a bioelectronic system driven by a machine learning algorithm that can shift the membrane voltage in living cells and ...
Sep 24, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A new paper published today in Nature Energy reveals how a collaborative team of researchers have been able to fully identify the nature of oxidized oxygen in the important battery material—Li-rich NMC—using RIXS (Resonant ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Increasing demand for electrification in rural areas poses challenges, but also creates opportunities for development of decentralized electrification systems. Compared with conventional electrical grids based on large, centralized ...
Jul 13, 2020
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Engineering
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has developed a new particle-level cathode coating for lithium-ion batteries ...
Jul 9, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation
By applying in-sensor computing of analog data, a team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology's Institute of Photonics has developed a way to speed up machine vision. In their paper published in the journal Nature, ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
First responders and rescue teams are respected for doing all they can and based on what they know to help rescue victims of vehicle accidents as fast as possible.
Engineering
It is safe to say that 3-D displays do not necessarily occur in nature—unless one considers the cephalopod, which includes the squid and octopus, as a living 3-D display which can morph its structure and create complex ...
Sep 23, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have broken new ground in solar cell energy efficiency and in the process provided a glimpse of the technology's future.
Aug 29, 2019
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Engineering
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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