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Innovations in science and engineering lead to 3D printed latex rubber breakthrough

“Virginia Tech researchers have discovered a novel process to 3D print latex rubber, unlocking the ability to print a variety of elastic materials with complex geometric shapes. Latex, commonly known as the material in gloves or paint, refers to a …

JEDEC Publishes New DDR5 Standard for Advancing Next-Generation High Performance Computing Systems

“JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced the publication of the widely-anticipated JESD79-5 DDR5 SDRAM standard. The standard addresses demand requirements being driven by intensive cloud and …

Lab Resolves Origin Of Perovskite Instability

“Researchers in the Cava Group have demystified the reasons for instability in an inorganic perovskite that has attracted wide attention for its potential in creating highly efficient solar cells. Using single crystal X-ray diffraction performed at Princeton University and X-ray …

LED Matrix Scoreboard

“Shoot some hoops and score some points! LED Pixel Hoops Build an LED scoreboard with mini IR sensing hoop using an RGB Matrix and CircuitPython! This indoor game lets you shoot hoops and display your score on a 64x32 LED …

Letting robots manipulate cables

“Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT can handle cables with unprecedented dexterity. For humans, it can be challenging to manipulate thin flexible objects like ropes, wires, or cables. But if these problems are hard for humans, they …

Liquid crystal integrated metalens for versatile color focus

“Researchers integrated photo-patterned liquid crystal into a dielectric metasurface to achieve achromatic and chromatic focusing with a single metalens. The development of metasurfaces opened a horizon for the advance of planar optics. Among various metadevices, the metalens has attracted widespread …

Liquid crystals create easy-to-read, color-changing sensors

“Chameleons are famous for their color-changing abilities. Depending on their body temperature or mood, their nervous system directs skin tissue that contains nanocrystals to expand or contract, changing how the nanocrystals reflect light and turning the reptile’s skin a …

Liquid Metal Synthesis For Better Piezoelectrics: Atomically-thin Tin-monosulfide

“RMIT-UNSW collaboration applies liquid-metal synthesis to piezoelectrics, advancing future flexible, wearable electronics, and biosensors drawing their power from the body’s movements. Materials such as atomically-thin tin-monosulfide (SnS) are predicted to exhibit strong piezoelectric properties, converting mechanical forces or …

Low Budget Carriage Robot

“The Inspiration One of many solutions to help our front liners fight this pandemic is automating some of their tasks, that doesn’t need expert medical background to do it. One of those tasks is delivering things to the patient …

Making an Arduino OLED Ring Clock

“I have bought a tiny OLED display, its clean and clarity draw my attention. But what can I do with itActually, the point is how can I show it off… Lol. Well, when I looked at the poster of The …