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“Scientists directly see how the atoms in a magnesium-based battery fit into the structure of electrodes. The Science Next-generation batteries based on magnesium rather than lithium ions hold promise to be more efficient, safer, and cheaper. One electrode is metallic …
“Solar cells convert light to electricity. Image sensors also convert light to electricity. If you could do them both at the same time in the same chip, you’d have the makings of a self-powered camera. Engineers at University of …
“Metamaterial device controls transmission and reflection of acoustic waves Metamaterials researchers at Duke University have demonstrated the design and construction of a thin material that can control the redirection and reflection of sound waves with almost perfect efficiency. While many …
“Harnessing a phenomenon called the Rashba spin-Seebeck effect will enable commercial devices to turn waste heat from computers, cars, and solar cells into electricity Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have reported success in using inexpensive materials to …
“At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events. A person watching videos that show things opening — a door, a book, curtains, a blooming flower, a yawning dog — easily understands the same type of …
“Microscope-guided process for creating quantum bits is widely accessible to smaller labs. NIST researchers have pioneered a process that drastically simplifies fabrication of the kind of nanoscale microchip features that may soon form the basis of a quantum computer, among …
“Mimicking photosynthesis in plants, using light to convert stable and abundant molecules like water and CO2 into a high energy fuel (hydrogen) or into chemicals of industrial interest, is a major research challenge today. However, achieving artificial photosynthesis in solution …
“When power generators like windmills and solar panels transfer electricity to homes, businesses and the power grid, they lose almost 10 percent of the generated power. To address this problem, scientists are researching new diamond semiconductor circuits to make power …
“Mechanical Engineering Professor Bingqing Wei leads team to curb formation of harmful dendrites in lithium metal batteries From smartphones to electric vehicles, many of today’s technologies run on lithium ion batteries. That means that consumers have to keep their …
“A team of California researchers has developed a robotic gripper that combines the adhesive properties of gecko toes and the adaptability of air-powered soft robots to grasp a much wider variety of objects than the state of the art. Researchers …