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Self-powered graphene smart sensor takes the pain out of wound monitoring
A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers from Penn State and China's Hebei University of Technology have ...
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Engineers expand multi-material design possibilities with cellular fluidics
Engineering researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved breakthroughs in multi-material additive manufacturing (3D printing) through the power of capillary action. The LLNL team printed lattice ...
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268 new alloys: AI speeds up search for aerospace materials
Skoltech and MIPT researchers have sped up the search for high-performance metal alloys for the aerospace industry, mechanical engineering, and electronics. The team's machine learning-driven approach serves as a fast-track ...
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Porous plastic sheets can cool buildings by radiating light to space
Traditional cooling systems for buildings use refrigerants and electricity, which contribute to the atmospheric greenhouse effect that exacerbates more extreme weather events. In response, materials scientists have turned ...
Feb 5, 2025
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Specialized sponge can suck up stormwater pollution
As more waterways contend with algae blooms and pollution caused by minerals from agricultural runoff and industrial manufacturing processes, new methods to remove pollutants like phosphate, copper and zinc are emerging across ...
Feb 5, 2025
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Semiconductor material for short-wave infrared sensors developed
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a high-quality compound semiconductor material for ultra-sensitive short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensors. The study is published in the journal ...
Feb 5, 2025
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Scientists enhance high-resolution distributed temperature sensing using plastic optical fibers
Scientists have developed a new approach to significantly enhance the spatial resolution of distributed temperature sensing using plastic optical fibers (POFs). Their work demonstrates the successful detection of temperature ...
Feb 5, 2025
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Boosting Li-ion battery performance with surface technology
With the rising global demand for cost-effective sustainable batteries, lithium-ion batteries are at the forefront as energy storage solutions. However, achieving a high energy density with long-term stability in such batteries ...
Feb 5, 2025
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Robotics
Smart robotic wheelchair offers enhanced autonomy and control
Recent advances in the fields of human-infrastructure interaction, electronic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical technologies. ...
Engineering
Thermal interface material slashes AI data center cooling cost and GPU/CPU power use
The AI revolution has ushered in an era of exponential power and energy consumption. According to the US Department of Energy, energy consumed by AI data centers could triple by 2028. Today, up to 40% of data center power ...
Feb 4, 2025
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Charging electric vehicles while driving: Engineers model grid demand challenges
Running out of gas in a remote area far from a gas station is every driver's worst nightmare. A similar stressor, known as "range anxiety," exists for owners of electric vehicles who worry about how far their EV's can drive ...
Feb 4, 2025
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Self-powered sensor can generate electricity and light simultaneously using only movement
DGIST research teams have developed a self-powered sensor that uses motion and pressure to generate electricity and light simultaneously. This battery-free technology is expected to be used in various real-life applications, ...
Feb 4, 2025
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New device uses electrically assisted wind to fight fires
Researchers have developed a new portable tool that could improve how firefighters douse fires, making the process more efficient and far less risky.
Feb 4, 2025
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Volcanic ash can be used for radiation shielding, researchers find
Researchers from the Ateneo de Manila University and from National University- Mall of Asia Campus have found a surprising new use for the copious amounts of volcanic ash scattered across the Philippines: It can be used to ...
Feb 4, 2025
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AI sensor cuts false alarms in smoke detectors
A group of South Korean researchers has developed an intelligent fire detection technology that drastically reduces false alarm incidents which go off in the absence of a real fire (hereinafter "unwanted alarm"), and is on ...
Feb 4, 2025
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Engineers and architects launch manifesto on regenerative design
A team of engineers, architects and researchers from the University of Bath have published a manifesto on "regenerative" design and engineering, providing a guide to confronting the climate crisis and creating "Net Positive" ...
Feb 4, 2025
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Encoding many properties in one material via 3D printing
A class of synthetic soft materials called liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) can change shape in response to heat, similar to how muscles contract and relax in response to signals from the nervous system. 3D printing these ...
Feb 3, 2025
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Shaping the future of displays: Clay-based device integrates light emission and color control
Electrochemical stimuli-responsive materials are gaining more attention in the world of display technology. Based on external stimuli, such as low voltage, these materials can instantaneously undergo electrochemical reactions.
Feb 3, 2025
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Engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone
Drone shows are an increasingly popular form of large-scale light display. These shows incorporate hundreds to thousands of airborne bots, each programmed to fly in paths that together form intricate shapes and patterns across ...
Feb 3, 2025
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How we're recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes
Remember cassettes? If you're old enough, you might remember dropping one into a player, only to have it screech at you when you pressed "play." We've fixed that problem. But why would we bother?
Feb 3, 2025
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Simulator characterizes air pollution in aircraft cabins
"Fume events" occur when fluids such as engine oil or hydraulic fluid contaminate the air inside an airplane cabin via the "bleed air" used for air supply and conditioning. Measurements taken in flight do not allow for determination ...
Feb 3, 2025
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Unlocking the secrets of textile recycling: A closer look at mechanical methods
Today, only a fraction of all textiles are recycled. Katarina Lindström wants to change that. Her doctoral thesis in Textile Technology at the Swedish School of Textiles contributed unique knowledge about mechanical recycling: ...
Feb 3, 2025
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Robotics
See SUPER in action: Aerial robot can navigate unknown environments safely at high speeds
A team of engineers and roboticists at the University of Hong Kong have designed, built and tested an aerial robot capable of navigating unknown environments safely at high speeds while avoiding obstacles. In their paper ...
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Recycling lithium-ion batteries slashes emissions, secures future mineral supply
Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. ...
Feb 1, 2025
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Aging reactors: For the first time, researchers verify the effect of radiation on concrete expansion
It's been known for some time that radiation impacts the structural integrity of concrete. However, until now the details of this were unknown. Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, can finally demonstrate ...
Jan 31, 2025
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