What new materials are there?

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Data transport sats

New research models concept for data transport using train of satellites

Although the Pony Express lasted only a short time in the mid-1800s before being outperformed by the transcontinental telegraph, it inspired a concept for a string of small satellites to transport data from Mars to Earth and help alleviate the data logjam currently occurring in the Deep Space...

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A re-think of the first law

Physicists give the first law of thermodynamics a makeover

West Virginia University physicists have made a breakthrough on an age-old limitation of the first law of thermodynamics.

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Hydrogen

2D Janus materials could harvest abundant hydrogen fuel

Several studies have predicted that the water splitting reaction could be catalyzed by certain groups of 2D materials—each measuring just a few atoms thick. One particularly promising group are named 2D Janus materials, whose two sides each feature a different molecular composition.

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Accelerating the commercialization of solid oxide electrolysis cells that produce green hydrogen

Green hydrogen production technology is absolutely necessary to finally realize the hydrogen economy because unlike gray hydrogen, green hydrogen does not generate large amounts of carbon dioxide in the production process.

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We developed an algorithm to massively improve hydrogen fuel cell imaging and water modeling

We developed an algorithm to massively improve images of hydrogen fuel cells, with future applications in medical scanning.

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Huge power generation

Power plasma with gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes

After successful recommissioning in autumn 2022, the Greifswald nuclear fusion experiment has surpassed an important target. In 2023, an energy turnover of 1 gigajoule was targeted. Now the researchers have even achieved 1.3 gigajoules and a new record for discharge time on Wendelstein 7-X: the...

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New fluid pump

New pumping strategy could slash energy costs of fluid transport by 22%

A collaboration between the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and the Polytechnic University of Milan has found that when a fluid is pumped through a pipe in an intermittent way, the cost of transport is significantly reduced.

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Generating Fermat's spiral patterns using solutal Marangoni-driven coiling in an aqueous two-phase system

The team led by Professor Anderson Ho Cheung Shum of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has accomplished a key breakthrough in fluid dynamics, by developing a three-dimensional Marangoni transport system in an aqueous two-phase system. The project was...

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Flexible electronics

Using a solidified liquid metal to build 3D flexible electronics

In recent years, engineers and material scientists have been trying to identify particularly promising materials for creating flexible electronics of different shapes and sizes. Ultimately, these electronics could be integrated in wearable devices (e.g., smart watches and medical devices to...

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Testing the use of kombucha to make circuit boards

A small international team of material and computer engineers has tested the possibility of using kombucha to make electronic circuit boards. Their paper, posted on the arXiv pre-print server, describes various methods of printing circuitry onto the dried mats.

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Researchers make a new type of quantum material with a dramatic distortion pattern

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a new type of quantum material whose atomic scaffolding, or lattice, has been dramatically warped into a herringbone pattern.

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AI conjures proteins that speed up chemical reactions

For the first time, scientists have used machine learning to create brand-new enzymes, which are proteins that accelerate chemical reactions. This is an important step in the field of protein design, as new enzymes could have many uses across medicine and industrial manufacturing.

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Imaging

A universal domain adaptation technique for remote sensing image classification

Domain adaptation approaches are techniques designed to improve the performance of computational models in specific target domains. These techniques are particularly valuable for tackling problems for which there is only a limited amount of relevant annotated data and for which training machine...

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New microscope

MoBIE enables modern microscopy with massive data sets

High-resolution microscopy techniques, for example electron microscopy or super-resolution microscopy, produce huge amounts of data. The visualization, analysis and dissemination of such large imaging data sets poses significant challenges.

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Neuromorphic camera and machine learning aid nanoscopic imaging

In a new study, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) show how a brain-inspired image sensor can go beyond the diffraction limit of light to detect miniscule objects such as cellular components or nanoparticles invisible to current microscopes. Their novel technique, which...

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Corrosion fighter

New corrosion protection that repairs itself

Skyscrapers, bridges, ships, airplanes, cars—everything humans make or build sooner or later decays. The ravages of time are known as corrosion; nothing is safe from it.

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Anti-dust tech

Anti-dust tech paves way for self-cleaning surfaces

Dust is a common fact of life, and it's more than just a daily nuisance—it can get into machinery and equipment, causing loss of efficiency or breakdowns.

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Developing fabrics that change shape when they heat up

New textiles developed at Aalto University change shape when they heat up, giving designers a wide range of new options. In addition to offering adjustable esthetics, responsive smart fabrics could also help monitor people's health, improve thermal insulation, and provide new tools for managing...

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New flatscreens

'Metasurfaces' could spark next generation of significantly thinner and cheaper flat screens

Researchers have developed a proof of concept technology that could pave the way for next-generation displays beyond current LCDs and LEDs, enabling screens and electronic devices to become thinner, offer higher resolution and be much more energy efficient.

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Gas poisoning anti-dote

Novel synthetic porphyrin as a dual antidote against fire gas poisoning

When buildings burn, the burning materials generate highly toxic carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) gases, which can be fatal upon ingestion. Once inhaled, these gases bind strongly to hemoglobin, cytochromes, and iron containing compounds known as hemes, and block normal aerobic...

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The world's first fluorosulfate-based flame retardant additive

In lithium-ion batteries commonly used in electric vehicles, incombustible additives are added to the electrolyte in preparation for the possibility of ignition. ETRI researchers succeeded in developing a fluorosulfate-based flame retardant additive for the first time in the world. This is...

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The real Proteus

Twin-bioengine self-adaptive micro/nanorobots developed for gastrointestinal inflammation therapy

Micro/nanorobots with self-propelling and self-navigating capabilities have attracted extensive attention in from researchers in drug delivery and therapy due to their controllable locomotion in hard-to-reach body tissues.

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Unlocking molecules

Locking and unlocking molecular structures on demand

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Angewandte Chemie International Edition how the formation and deformation speed of interlocked molecular structures called rotaxanes can be tuned—a discovery that may lead to an enhanced functionality of rotaxanes as building blocks for molecular...

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Rad-trap

A new way to trap radioactive waste in minerals for long-term storage

There are around 440 nuclear power plants operating in 32 countries around the world, supplying some 10% of the world's electricity. Another 60 reactors are under construction, and 300 more are proposed.

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High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last | Quanta Magazine

A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory.

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Not material per se but related

New 'camera' with shutter speed of 1 trillionth of a second sees through dynamic disorder of atoms

Researchers are coming to understand that the best performing materials in sustainable energy applications, such as converting sunlight or waste heat to electricity, often use collective fluctuations of clusters of atoms within a much larger structure. This process is often referred to as...

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A safer way of getting HTP--unlike the conventional anthraquinone method, the new homogeneous catalyst requires only one step and no separation of hydrogen and oxygen gas from the reaction flask. Therefore, with more development, the new catalyst could lead to a process that demands less material and lower costs at industrial levels.

A safe synthesis of hydrogen peroxide inspired by nature

Hydrogen peroxide is a ubiquitous chemical found in most homes and used in everything from dying hair to treating wounds. It is also an invaluable agent for many industries from food, textiles, and even in semiconductor production.

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I thing this might also allow for a return to Beal Type rockets. Perhaps a simpler External Tank of this and kerosene might allow a return of a shuttle orbiter of some kind---keep everything room temperature.

Nitrogen compounds

First synthesis of a compound with aromatic nitrogen rings

An international team with researchers from the University of Bayreuth presents a potentially groundbreaking discovery for nitrogen chemistry in Nature Chemistry: For the first time, a compound containing aromatic rings of nitrogen atoms has been synthesized.

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Engineering nitrogenases for synthetic nitrogen fixation: From pathway engineering to directed evolution

Fertilizers are one of the main reasons that we are able to grow enough crops to feed the almost 8 billion humans living on Earth. Modern agriculture depends largely on nitrogen-based fertilizers, which significantly increase the yield of crops. Unfortunately, a great portion of these...

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Boron and lithium

Scientists reveal 'magic boron clusters' on monolayer borophene

Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators from the University of Science and Technology of China, have revealed the formation of boron clusters with magic numbers on monolayer borophene and observed the evolution process from...

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3D battery imaging reveals the secret real-time life of lithium metal cells

Innovative battery researchers have cracked the code to creating real-time 3D images of the promising but temperamental lithium metal battery as it cycles. A team from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in observing how the lithium metal in the cell behaves as it charges...

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Shape memory and rotor

Shape memory achieved for nano-sized objects

Alloys that can return to their original structure after being deformed have a so-called shape memory. This phenomenon and the resulting forces are used in many mechanical actuating systems, for example in generators or hydraulic pumps. However, it has not been possible to use this shape-memory...

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Unwinding the world's smallest biological rotary motor by degrees

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the energy currency of cells. It powers various cellular processes that require energy, including enzymatic reactions. ATP is synthesized with the help of an enzyme complex called F-type ATP synthase. This enzyme complex has a bidirectional functionality, working...

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An innovative twist: Tubular nanomaterial of carbon makes ideal home for spinning quantum bits

Scientists are vigorously competing to transform the counterintuitive discoveries about the quantum realm from a century past into technologies of the future. The building block in these technologies is the quantum bit, or qubit. Several different kinds are under development, including ones that...

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Bending 2D nanomaterial could 'switch on' future technologies

Rice University materials scientist Boris Yakobson and collaborators uncovered a property of ferroelectric 2D materials that could be exploited as a feature in future devices.

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Scientists twist chemical bonds beyond their limits

A group of scientists from Durham University and University of York have twisted molecules to their breaking point in order to challenge the understanding of chemical bonds.

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Graphene quantum dots show promise as novel magnetic field sensors

Trapped electrons traveling in circular loops at extreme speeds inside graphene quantum dots are highly sensitive to external magnetic fields and could be used as novel magnetic field sensors with unique capabilities, according to a new study.

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This starchy bioplastic could make soggy paper straws a thing of the past

In the fight against pollution, several regions in the U.S. have banned the use of plastic straws. Alternative materials exist, but most options are either too expensive to scale up, go limp in drinks or taste bad. But now, a team reporting in ACS Omega has developed a new type of bioplastic...

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new tools for seeing

Using a standard RGB camera and AI to obtain vegetation data

Aerial imagery is a valuable component of precision agriculture, providing farmers with important information about crop health and yield. Images are typically obtained with an expensive multispectral camera attached to a drone. But a new study from the University of Illinois and Mississippi...

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Low-cost smartphone fluorescence microscope developed

A device that can convert a smartphone or tablet into a fluorescence microscope for less than US $50 is presented in a proof-of-principle study in Scientific Reports. The authors suggest that the device—which they have named a glowscope—could be used to image cells, tissues, and organisms under...

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Electrocatalysis under the atomic force microscope

A further development in atomic force microscopy now makes it possible to simultaneously image the height profile of nanometer-fine structures as well as the electric current and the frictional force at solid-liquid interfaces. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Fritz Haber...

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Smart microscopy works out where to take the picture

Is it possible to know exactly where to point a microscope in order to capture the precise moment a bacterium or a virus infects a cell? In order to take high resolution microscopic images of living biological material, you need to know exactly where to point the microscope. Researchers at Lund...

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Label-free superior contrast with c-band ultra-violet extinction microscopy

A new purpose-built microscope has been developed that uses the complex properties of UV light to improve image resolution and contrast. Most cells are transparent at visible wavelengths, which means the imaginary component of their complex refractive index, also known as extinction coefficient...

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Single-pulse real-time billion-frames-per-second planar imaging of ultrafast nanoparticle-laser dynamics

The soot produced by unburnt hydrocarbon flames is the second largest contributor to global warming, while also harming human health. Researchers have developed state-of-the-art, high-speed imaging techniques to study turbulent flames, yet they are limited to an imaging rate of...

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High-speed super-resolution microscopy via temporal compression

As an indispensable tool for observing the microcosmos, optical microscopy has boosted the development of various fields, including biology, medicine, physics, and materials. However, optical diffraction imposes a spatial resolution restriction on optical microscopy, which hampers exploration of...

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Researchers print high-performance microcone-array flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensor

According to the data of the World Health Organization, about 430 million people worldwide suffer from hearing loss due to cochlear damage, and the improvement of hearing mainly depends on cochlear implants. However, traditional cochlear implants have low speech recognition ability, and the...

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new energy source and more

Newly discovered enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy

Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published today in the journal Nature, reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. This finding opens the way to create devices that...

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Novel porous materials are ideal for metal-air batteries, researchers report

Sustainable energy solutions cannot be pulled out of thin air. However, combining air with metal and other frameworks may pave the way for environmentally friendly energy conversion and storage, according to a research team based in China.

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Study explores the viability of realizing stable high-voltage O-redox cathodes

To meet rising energy demands and power the countless electronic devices on the market, researchers will need to develop new advanced battery technologies. These technologies should ideally have higher energy densities and longer lifetimes, so that they can store more energy and last longer.

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The positive outlooks of studying negatively-charged chiral molecules

From the difference in taste of spearmint and fennel, to the consequences of a drug, that either cures morning sickness or causes birth deformities, chirality and the properties of enantiomers, which trigger these differences, are known to be a crucial aspect of biological processes.

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new paint

Researchers create world's first energy-saving paint—inspired by butterflies

University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF's NanoScience Technology Center, has drawn inspiration from butterflies to create the first environmentally friendly, large-scale and multicolor alternative to pigment-based colorants, which can contribute to...

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Transistor news

New kind of transistor could shrink communications devices on smartphones

One month after announcing a ferroelectric semiconductor at the nanoscale thinness required for modern computing components, a team at the University of Michigan has demonstrated a reconfigurable transistor using that material.

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Complex oxides could power the computers of the future

As the evolution of standard microchips is coming to an end, scientists are looking for a revolution. The big challenges are to design chips that are more energy efficient and to design devices that combine memory and logic (memristors). Materials scientists from the University of Groningen, the...

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A step forward in the quest to replace silicon with 2D chips

Two-dimensional semiconductors have a chance to galvanize significant advances in electronic device capabilities, replacing silicon-based chips. However, many problems continue to hold back these devices.

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Chinese team creates vocal cords on a chip

Most of us take our voices for granted. But if we sing too long at a wild party, scream for our team at a sports event or suffer a bout of laryngitis due to a cold, we quickly learn how inconvenient it is to wake up the next day and realize we've lost our voice.

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Researchers fabricate novel flexible supercapacitors on paper

Wearable devices such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, and virtual reality headsets are becoming commonplace. They are powered by flexible electronics that consist of electrodes with plastic or metal foil as substrates. However, both of these come with their own drawbacks. Plastics suffer from...

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High-performance γ-MnO₂ dual-core, pair-hole fiber for ultrafast photonics

Recently, the research team of Prof. Xiaohui Li at Shaanxi Normal University fabricated a section of γ-MnO2 dual-core double-hole fiber by combining γ-MnO2 with a special fiber, a dual-core pair-hole fiber, measuring its nonlinear absorption curve, and used it as a saturable absorber to produce...

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particle trap

A surprising way to trap a microparticle

When physicists recently steered a tiny microparticle toward a cylindrical obstacle, they expected one of two outcomes to occur. The particle would either collide into the obstacle or sail around it. The particle, however, did neither.

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ouzo liquor

How diluting ouzo liquor could lead to better emulsions

It sounds like a party trick: Add water to the clear, licorice-flavored ouzo liquor, and watch it turn cloudy. This "ouzo effect" is an example of an easy way to make highly stable emulsions—or mixtures of liquids that don't like being together, like vinaigrettes—but nobody has yet fully...

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Tough materials

Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough

In the latest advance in nano- and micro-architected materials, engineers at Caltech have developed a new material made from numerous interconnected microscale knots.

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Scientists thread rows of metal atoms into nanofiber bundles

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully threaded atoms of indium metal in between individual fibers in bundles of transition metal chalcogenide nanofibers. By steeping the bundles in indium gas, rows of atoms were able to make their way in between the fibers to create a...

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Bacteria designed like corals to achieve carbon-neutral cement production

New buildings are often a cause for celebration, but there is not much to celebrate when looking at the climate footprint of the construction industry, which is among the world's highest.

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More details on the butterfly paint: Paint enough to paint a 747?

Spoiler

About 3 pounds, normal paint: 1000 pounds

Inspired by butterflies, researcher invents new paint that has no pigments

The pain is also extremely lightweight and can achieve full coloration with a thickness of 150 nanometers, about 60 times thicker than a strand of DNA.

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Breakthrough discovery in materials science challenges current understanding of photoemission

What exactly is light—and what is it made of? It's an age-old question that dates back to antiquity, and one of the most important investigations undertaken by scientists looking to understand the nature of reality.

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Lots of goodies from that site:

Wood windows

Team develops see-through aerogel made from wood that better insulates double-paned windows

A team of physicists and material scientists at the University of Colorado has developed a way to better insulate double-paned glass used for windows by adding a transparent aerogel. In their paper published in the journal Nature Energy the group describes how their aerogel is made and how much...

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Skin?

Team develops electronic skin as flexible as crocodile skin

The development of electronic skin with multiple senses is essential for various fields, including rehabilitation, health care, prosthetic limbs, and robotics. One of the key components of this technology is stretchable pressure sensors, which can detect various types of touch and pressure...

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Cosmic concrete

Scientists develop a 'cosmic concrete' that is twice as strong as regular concrete

Manchester scientists have created a new material, dubbed StarCrete, which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt and could be used to build homes on Mars.

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Roll out the solar:

First completely roll-to-roll printable perovskite solar cell

Swansea University has established a low-cost and scalable carbon ink formulation capable of unlocking, for the first time, the potential for perovskite solar cells to be manufactured at scale.

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Float solar

The benefits of floatovoltaics: Putting solar panels on reservoirs

An international team of environmental scientists is touting the benefits of solar panels on floating platforms atop reservoirs and other bodies of water. In their paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the group describes the many benefits of using existing reservoirs to host...

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Double as a rectenna?

6G

Scientists develop energy-saving, tunable meta-devices for high-precision, secure 6G communications

The future of wireless communications is set to take a giant leap with the advent of sixth-generation (6G) wireless technology. A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) invented a groundbreaking tunable terahertz (THz) meta-device that can control the radiation direction and...

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So that was the communicator’s moire pattern


I’m walking here!

First open-source tool to let planners map pedestrian networks

It's easier than ever to view maps of any place you'd like to go—by car, that is. By foot is another matter. Most cities and towns in the U.S. do not have sidewalk maps, and pedestrians are usually left to fend for themselves: Can you walk from your hotel to the restaurants on the other side of...

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Slash heat

A high-performance semiconductor material could help slash heat emissions

Researchers at West Virginia University have engineered a material with the potential to dramatically cut the amount of heat power plants release into the atmosphere.

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The future? Plastics

Machine learning helps researchers separate compostable from conventional plastic waste with 'very high' accuracy

Disposable plastics are everywhere: Food containers, coffee cups, plastic bags. Some of these plastics, called compostable plastics, can be engineered to biodegrade under controlled conditions. However, they often look identical to conventional plastics, are recycled incorrectly, and as a...

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Magnetics and optics

First-ever wireless device developed to make magnetism appear in non-magnetic materials

Researchers at the UAB and ICMAB have succeeded in bringing wireless technology to the fundamental level of magnetic devices. The emergence and control of magnetic properties in cobalt nitride layers (initially non-magnetic) by voltage, without connecting the sample to electrical wiring...

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Vacuum in optical cavity can change material's magnetic state without laser excitation

Researchers in Germany and the U.S. have produced the first theoretical demonstration that the magnetic state of an atomically thin material, α-RuCl3, can be controlled solely by placing it into an optical cavity. Crucially, the cavity vacuum fluctuations alone are sufficient to change the...

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Promising electrolytes for solid-state batteries based on viscoelastic inorganic glass

Recent advancements in the development of hybrid and electric vehicles have increased the need for highly performing battery technologies. Research teams worldwide have thus been working on a wide range of alternative battery solutions, while also trying to identify new promising electrolytes...

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Bartering light for light: Scientists discover new system to control the chaotic behavior of light

Harnessing and controlling light is vital for the development of technology, including energy harvesting, computation, communications, and biomedical sensing. Yet, in real-world scenarios, complexity in light's behavior poses challenges for its efficient control. Physicist Andrea Alù likens the...

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Optical fiber–based, single-photon light source at room temperature for next-generation quantum processing

Quantum-based systems promise faster computing and stronger encryption for computation and communication systems. These systems can be built on fiber networks involving interconnected nodes which consist of qubits and single-photon generators that create entangled photon pairs.

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Solving a long-standing problem in transmission electron microscopy

For researchers wanting to understand the inner workings of magnetic materials, transmission electron microscopy is an indispensable tool. Because the wavelength of an electron is much shorter than the wavelength of visible light, a beam of electrons transmitted through a thin slice of a...

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Team develops a dual metalens that can switch between shooting modes based on light conditions

A collaborative research team has successfully engineered a dual metalens capable of switching between different imaging modes using a single lens. The research findings have been featured in ACS Nano.

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electrolysis

New approach to water electrolysis for green hydrogen

Recent research into the demanding task of developing catalysts for hydrogen production has made substantial progress.

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A surprising finding shows that light can make water evaporate without heat could enable new approaches to desalination

Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But science's understanding of this ubiquitous process may have been missing a piece all this time.

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EV Batteries Could Get Big Boost with New Polymer Coating

Scientists enhance lithium-ion battery performance at the atomic level.

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Pentagon seeks to jumpstart ‘nascent’ biomanufacturing industry with new strategy - Breaking Defense

DoD’s new Biomanufacturing Strategy and an accompanying RFI from industry both aim to help companies using biological processes to make potentially revolutionary materials — and to keep them from moving offshore like semiconductors.

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National Academies release report on high energy density science with LLNL contributions

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report, Fundamental Research in High Energy Density Science, which identifies key challenges and science questions for the field of High Energy Density (HED) science for the coming decade and proposes ways to address them.

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There is a new plastic made of superglue:

Researchers turn Superglue into a recyclable, cheap, oil-free plastic alternative

Our team used Superglue as a starting material to develop a low-cost, recyclable and easily produced transparent plastic called polyethyl cyanoacrylate that has properties similar to those of plastics used for single-use products like cutlery, cups and packaging. Unlike most traditional...

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People have used drinking straws to check fluid flow laws:

To uncover new fluid flow laws, researchers turn to drinking straws

A team of researchers has uncovered new laws governing the flow of fluids through experiments on a technology thousands of years old: a drinking straw. This knowledge could be useful for improving fluid handling in medical and engineering applications.

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Very good news for propellant handling pipes.

New geometric shape

A geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled

A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have...

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Good for TPS tiles?

Plasma calculations eased

Simplified calculations reproduce complex plasma flows

Accurate and fast calculation of heat flow (heat transport) due to fluctuations and turbulence in plasmas is an important issue in elucidating the physical mechanisms of fusion reactors and in predicting and controlling their performance.

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Nanowires in carbon tubes

Nanowires in carbon nanotubes have huge solar energy applications

Tiny materials one hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a strand of hair could be used to improve solar cell technology.

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New fibers

Next-generation aramid fiber with electrical conductivity

Aramid fiber is known as "super fiber," or "golden silk," because even though its weight is equivalent to only 20% of the weight of steel, it is more than five times as strong and does not burn, even at 500°C. Aramid fiber is an essential material used in various applications such as body armor...

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light dancing

Bringing angular momentum to holograms and metasurfaces

Holography, invented by Gabor, provides an approach for recording and reconstructing the complete information (i.e. intensity and phase) of the light from an object. Since its invention, holographic-related technologies have been widely applied in numerous areas, such as optical display...

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For electronics

Volcanic spring water helps researchers make plastic electronics

When you think of how to make electronic components, water probably doesn't top your list of raw materials. Nevertheless, in a study recently published in Journal of Water Chemistry and Technology, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have used volcanic spring water to help make the...

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Study reveals origin of superconductivity in nickelates

Nickelates are a material class that has excited scientists because of its recently discovered superconducting ability, and now a new study led by Cornell has changed where scientists thought this ability might originate, providing a blueprint for how more functional versions might be engineered...

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Scientists integrate two-dimensional materials into silicon microchips for advanced data storage and computation

Two-dimensional materials are expected to revolutionize the semiconductor industry. However, despite multiple studies that have reported prototype devices with promising properties for sensing and driving electrical current, their technology readiness level is still very low because they mostly...

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Researchers synthesize graphene using intense light

DGIST Professor Yoonkyu Lee's research team used intense light on the surface of a copper wire to synthesize graphene, thereby increasing the production rate and lowering the production cost of the high-quality transparent-flexible electrode materials and consequently enabling its mass...

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Highly charged ions melt nano gold nuggets

Normally, we have to make a choice in physics: Either we deal with big things—such as a metal plate and its material properties, or with tiny things—such as individual atoms. But there is also a world in between: The world of small but not yet tiny things, in which both effects of the...

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Storing information with spins: Creating new structured spin states with spatially structured polarized light

Light is composed of electric and magnetic fields that oscillate perpendicular to each other. When these oscillations are restricted, say, along a plane, it results in polarized light. Polarized light is of great importance in optical communications, and can similarly revolutionize how...

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A Los Alamos National Laboratory team has overcome key challenges toward technologically viable high-intensity light emitters based on colloidal quantum dot technology, resulting in dual-function devices that operate as both an optically excited laser and a high-brightness electrically driven light-emitting diode (LED).

Battery boost

Use of layering-charged polymers in battery technology could boost EV range 10-fold

The electric vehicle market has been experiencing explosive growth, with global sales surpassing $1 trillion in 2022 and Korea's domestic sales exceeding 108,000 units. Inevitably, demand is growing for high-capacity batteries that can extend EV driving range. Recently, a joint team of...

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Silicon-based anode materials could potentially increase driving range at least tenfold.
Tiny batteries

Engineer discusses the next generation of micrometer-scale batteries

Automated sprinklers, lighting, and security systems have been commonplace in homes and offices for several decades. In recent years, however, they have become increasingly efficient at anticipating user needs and optimizing their performance due to their ability to communicate information over...

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Solid electrolyte for all-solid-state batteries without high-temperature heat treatment

The all-solid-state battery is a secondary battery with a solid electrolyte between the anode and cathode. It is considered a representative of next-generation battery technology due to its high energy density and significantly lower risk of fire and explosion than conventional lithium-ion...

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Batteries that heal

Scientists suggest new solution for flexible self-healing zinc-ion batteries

According to a study recently published in Small, a team led by Prof. Zhao Bangchuan from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences fabricated a flexible vanadium disulfide material (VS2@CF) by growing the VS2 nanosheet arrays on carbon foam (CF) using a simple...

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Wood batteries

Sustainable thermal energy batteries from fully bio‐based transparent wood

A building material that combines coconuts, lemons and modified wood could one day be enough to heat and cool your home. The three renewable sources provide the key components of a wood composite thermal battery, which was developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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Tiny power

A novel ultramicro supercapacitor with ultrahigh charge storage capability

Researchers at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have designed a novel ultramicro supercapacitor, a tiny device capable of storing an enormous amount of electric charge. It is also much smaller and more compact than existing...

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They found that under certain conditions, the capacitance increased by 3000%.
New lasers

Improved chip-scale color conversion lasers could enable many next-generation quantum devices

In two new studies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have greatly improved the efficiency and power output of a series of chip-scale devices that generate laser light at different colors while all using the same input laser source.

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Exploring bonds and electronic structure in plutonium hybrid materials

Understanding the arrangement of electrons in compounds containing actinide elements, such as uranium and plutonium, can help advance the design of next-generation nuclear materials. These elements are challenging to study due to their complex chemistry and radioactivity. Additionally, these...

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CO2 to polyester

Using bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into a polyester

A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a scalable way to use bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into a polyester. In their paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their...

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The hydrogen makers

Mimicking biological enzymes may be key to hydrogen fuel production

An ancient biological enzyme known as nickel-iron hydrogenase may play a key role in producing hydrogen for a renewables-based energy economy, researchers have found. Careful study of the enzyme has led chemists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to design a synthetic molecule that...

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Using natural catalysts to develop low-cost way of producing green hydrogen

Experts from Swansea and Grenoble have joined forces to develop a practical way to produce green hydrogen using sustainable catalysts.

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Review: Iridium-based catalysts look set to boost efficiency of green hydrogen production

Hydrogen production powered by wind and solar energy is still too expensive if it is to play a role in the clean transition via energy storage and to help decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors. Much effort in reducing its cost focuses on enhancing production efficiency by improving the...

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A covalent organic framework for photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide with high quantum efficiency

H2O2 is not only a green oxidant that is widely used in environmental remediation, industrial synthesis, and medical healthcare, etc., but also an emerging energy carrier with a high energy density comparable to compressed H2.

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I sing the body electric

Implantable fuel cell that generates electricity from excess glucose in the blood

In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin. This means that patients have to obtain the hormone externally to regulate their blood sugar levels. Currently, this is mostly done via insulin pumps that are attached directly to the body. These devices, as well as other medical...

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New math help

Mathematician uncovers methods to shrink sampling errors in large-dimensional data sets

A professor in Florida State University's Department of Mathematics has made a breakthrough that will allow scientists across academic disciplines and financial institutions to shrink sampling errors concerning high-dimensional financial data.

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Eye on experts

Eye-tracking during building inspections provides insight on how experts think

After a building failure due to natural disasters or poor structural design, safety inspectors must enter a structure to assess the damage before occupants can return. Researchers in the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering have studied how building inspectors make their safety...

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Concrete

Eco-efficient cement could pave the way to a greener future

The road to a net-zero future must be paved with greener concrete, and Rice University scientists know how to make it.

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Engineers discover new carbonation pathways for creating more environmentally friendly concrete

Despite the many advantages of concrete as a modern construction material, including its high strength, low cost, and ease of manufacture, its production currently accounts for approximately 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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Forever chemical break up

Advanced electrode to help remediation of stubborn new 'forever chemicals'

As new environmental regulations are rolling out to mitigate the industry-retired long-chain chemicals known as PFAS in drinking water, there are concerns regarding a new breed of "forever chemicals" called short-chain PFAS. Research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is helping...

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For Solar

New electrolyte enables high efficiency of safe, sustainable zinc batteries

Scientists led by an Oregon State University researcher have developed a new electrolyte that raises the efficiency of the zinc metal anode in zinc batteries to nearly 100%, a breakthrough on the way to an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage.

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For ethanol

Study paves way to more efficient production of 2G ethanol using specially modified yeast strain

A Brazilian study paves the way to increased efficiency of second-generation (2G) ethanol production based on the discovery of novel targets for metabolic engineering in a more robust strain of industrial yeast. An article on the study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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air filters

Researchers draw inspiration from pig snouts to design novel air filter technologies

Since the beginning of human creative activity, nature has served as a source of inspiration. That continues to be true for Saikat Basu, an assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, who took inspiration from a pig's snout to investigate ways to...

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Vehicle exhaust filters do not remove 'ultrafine' pollution, according to new study

Filters fitted to vehicle exhaust systems to remove particulate matter pollution have limited impact on ultrafine particles, new research shows.

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Ink and paints

Proper electronic structure of near-infrared absorbing functional dyes discovered

Near-infrared light, whose wavelength is longer than visible light, is invisible and can pass through many substances. Organic materials that efficiently absorb near-infrared light are essential for technological innovations that utilize near-infrared light, such as the dyes in the infrared...

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'Nano inks' could passively control temperature in buildings, cars

World-first 'phase change inks' that could transform how we heat and cool buildings, homes and cars—to achieve sophisticated 'passive climate' control—have been developed, with enormous potential to help reduce energy use and global greenhouse gas emissions.

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https://phys.org/news/2023-03-thermal-mxene-spray-coating-harness.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1258iqw

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1258iqw/physicists_invented_the_lightest_paint_in_the/

Glass
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-glass-world.html

New circuit element--the meminductor

Meminductor: Researchers discover new circuit element

Dr. H. Rusty Harris, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has identified a new circuit element known as a meminductor.

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The sound of elements

What do the elements sound like?

In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca—but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren't the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic table of the elements. However, using a technique called data sonification, a recent college graduate has converted the visible...

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For tracking fissile elements

A more accurate way to track the sources of illegally trafficked radioactive materials

A team of nuclear physicists and engineers from Sun Yat-sen University and the China Academy of Engineering Physics, both in China, has developed a more accurate way to track the sources of illegally trafficked radioactive materials. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review...

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[publiusr]

Two really good articles today at phys.org: "Researchers devise new membrane mirrors for large space-based telescopes."

Researchers devise new membrane mirrors for large space-based telescopes | News Releases | Optica

Researchers have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space. The resulting mirrors are flexible enough to be rolled up and stored compactly inside a launch vehicle.

www.optica.org

This will make the astronomy community quit howling as this tech goes into sunshades, sails and powersats. Another article relates how "Researchers develop novel nonwovens that are electrically conductive but thermally insulating." This and "How smart textiles aid communication with virtual worlds" will help spacewear.

 

[jsport]

Concrete in Disrepair? DARPA May Help You BRACE It

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2023 - Recent years have seen an emergence of so-called living materials, or materials that have the properties of living things. The DARPA Bio-inspired Restoration of Aged Concrete Edifices (BRACE) progra

www.spacedaily.com

 

[publiusr]

New textile

New textile unravels warmth-trapping secrets of polar bear fur

Three engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled on Polar bear fur. The results, published recently in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, are already being developed into...

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Fibers

A fiber-tapering technique that combines plasmonic heaters and deformed optical fibers

Optical micro and nanofibers (MNFs) have extensive applications in nonlinearity generation, near-field optics, quantum optics, and miniaturized sensing. Although MNFs have fostered the development of various disciplines, there have been few studies on the topic until the convenient fabrication...

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A one way material
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-composite-material-channel-mechanical-energy.html

For electronics?
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-non-reciprocal-metasurface-based-magnetic-meta-atoms.html

Maybe not light
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-backscattering-photonics-impossible-technologies.html

If there is anything to Quantized inertia---perhaps it will come from some type of non-reciprocal research?

Ice quenching of metal

Comparing ice and water in the quenching of heat in metal

Associate Professor Jonathan Boreyko leads a team at Virginia Tech that has built a strong portfolio of work with ice and water, exploring the possibilities for de-icing planes, building novel water harvesting devices, and creating snow globes out of bubbles. This familiarity with water has...

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Lightbulb

Rethinking the incandescent lightbulb

A team of material scientists and engineers affiliated with a host of institutions in China took a new look at the incandescent light bulb and found a way to improve its efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes the changes they made to their test...

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[bobbymike]

A new kind of Kevlar aims to stop bullets with less material

This novel Kevlar fiber is stronger, meaning that its makers hope they can fashion body armor out of it that's thinner and lighter.

www.popsci.com

 

[bobbymike]

Scientists may have found the secret to invisibility

Researchers have developed a unique light wave that, when beamed through an object, makes the object appear invisible to cameras and even the human eye. This could be the key to invisibility.

www.freethink.com

 

[bobbymike]

Physicists Create Microchip 100 Times Faster Than Conventional Ones

Researchers at the University of Sussex in England have found a way to create tiny and speedy semiconductors: crinkling graphene or other 2D materials.

interestingengineering.com

 

[Richard N]

Acme Portable Black Hole

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/s53B7SaFLKI?feature=share

 

[Richard N]

This Is the Lightest Paint in the World

"In a paper published this month in Science Advances, Chanda’s lab demonstrated a first-of-its-kind paint based on structural color. They think it's the lightest paint in the world—and they mean that both in terms of weight and temperature. The paint consists of tiny aluminum flakes dotted with even tinier aluminum nanoparticles. A raisin’s worth of the stuff could cover both the front and back of a door. It’s lightweight enough to potentially cut fuel usage in planes and cars that are coated with it. It doesn’t trap heat from sunlight like pigments do, and its constituents are less toxic than paints made with heavy metals like cadmium and cobalt."

This Is the Lightest Paint in the World

An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.

www.wired.com

 

[bobbymike]

CATL unveils condensed battery with an energy density of 500 Wh/kg

The battery can achieve high energy density and a high level of safety at the same time in a creative manner.

www.inceptivemind.com

 

[bobbymike]

Scientists Produce Metals Four Times Harder than Naturally Occurring Structures

Their metal coins had virtually the same electrical conduction and light reflectance properties as standard ones, but their optical properties were dramatically changed. Why? Learn inside.

interestingengineering.com

 

[bobbymike]

Engineering team develops multifunctional tendon-mimetic hydrogels

Repairing or replacing injured tendons or similar load-bearing tissues represents one of the major challenges in clinical medicine. Natural tendons are water-rich tissues exhibiting outstanding mechanical strength and durability. Their mechanical properties originate from sophisticated...

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[GTX]

NASA engineers develop super-strong 3D printed alloy for aircraft and spacecraft parts

NASA engineers have achieved a significant breakthrough in 3D printable high-temperature materials (alloys).

interestingengineering.com

 

[bobbymike]

New Ultralight Material Is Tougher than Steel and Kevlar

Engineers from Caltech, MIT, and ETH Zurich have developed a new lightweight nanoarchitectured material tougher than Kevlar or steel.

interestingengineering.com

 

[bobbymike]

Chinese scientists have managed to create a strong, flexible ceramic

A new bendy ceramic material has been developed by Chinese scientists. It could prove revolutionary for various industries, from aerospace to prosthetics.

interestingengineering.com

 

[bobbymike]

Scientists Just Created a New "Glass" That's Tougher Than Diamond

Scientists developed a material called AM-III which is tougher than diamond and is almost as efficient a semiconductor as silicon.

interestingengineering.com

 

[bobbymike]

Wonder Material Graphene Just Broke Another Major Record in Physics

Graphene is a special material.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[Rhinocrates]

Smart glasses dim bright objects but don’t affect other things in view

A device designed for people with photophobia features transparent LCD screens that selectively reduce light from the brightest parts of the scene

www.newscientist.com

[2304.07013] Smart Dimming Sunglasses for Photophobia Using Spatial Light Modulator

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We propose a smart dimming sunglasses system for individuals with photophobia, especially those who are easily irritated by light intensity. The system uses a spatial light modulator (SLM) to selectively filter light entering the eye based on the scene detection of a camera. By controlling the transmittance of each pixel on the SLM using a modulation function, the proposed sunglasses enable an automated non-linear field of view dimming and also flexible light modulation that meets the photophobic user's visual requirements. Meanwhile, an occlusion mask created on the SLM, which possesses low transmittance to block the incoming light rays, appears blurred from the eye since the focal plane is not on the SLM and blocks the light stimulation insufficiently. To solve this problem, the aperture-based expanded mask has been used in past studies, however, the excessive large expansion ratio used in this approach leads to over-blocking (occlusion leak). In this work, we build an optimization model by simulating the defocused occlusion mask and determining the effective contribution of the degraded pixels based on the occlusion efficiency of the pixel transmittance. While the non-processed mask cannot provide sufficient occlusion and the aperture-based expanded mask causes occlusion leak, our optimized mask attenuates the intensely bright areas to a proper brightness without incorrectly attenuating surrounding areas that no need to modulation.

The next step: readers of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series will know that Zaphod Beeblebrox had two pairs of sunglasses that were designed to ensure that their wearers were relaxed at all times. Working on the principle of the 'what you don't know won't hurt you', they went completely opaque if anything dangerous was about.

 

[publiusr]

Device creates negative mass and a new way to generate lasers | NextBigFuture.com

Most objects react in predictable ways when force is applied to them—unless they have “negative mass.” And then they react exactly opposite from what you

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Don't you need negative mass to go faster than light?

More on the subject: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-hybrid-excitonpolariton-particles-negative-mass.html Dispersion Engineering first.

 

[publiusr]

"Novel crystal compound melts under ultraviolet light" at phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-crystal-compound-ultraviolet.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-crystals-semicrystalline-polymer-shown-temperatures.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-crystals.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-technology-generate-high-harmonics-nonlinear.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-nanofaceting-quantum-dots-nanocrystals.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-porous-crystals-purify-pharmaceutical-pollutants.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-solution-processible-single-crystal-porous-polymer.html

 

[publiusr]

White Graphene at NSF

White Graphene

White Graphene

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[Rhinocrates]

Three different means of solid-state hydrogen storage. Weight might rule out their use for air or space but land, sea and power generation might find uses.

Aluminum-gallium powder bubbles hydrogen out of dirty water

“We don’t need any energy input, and it bubbles hydrogen like crazy. I’ve never seen anything like it,” said UCSC Professor Scott Oliver, describing a new aluminum-gallium nanoparticle powder that generates H2 when placed in water – even seawater.

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Another hydrogen transport powder emerges, promising double the density

Stir this silicon-based powder into water, and hydrogen will bubble out, ready for immediate use. Hong Kong company EPRO Advance Technology (EAT) says its Si+ powder offers an instant end to the difficulties of shipping and storing green energy.

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Mechanochemical breakthrough unlocks cheap, safe, powdered hydrogen

Australian scientists say they've made a "eureka moment" breakthrough in gas separation and storage that could radically reduce energy use in the petrochemical industry, while making hydrogen much easier and safer to store and transport in a powder.

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[Rhinocrates]

Certain plants have been found to be useful in detoxifying contaminated sites. Here's news about turning similar processes to industrial uses. The demand for rare earth elements has been a major driver for sea floor mining which is obviously very controversial. This has the potential to make it unnecessary. It may be that industrial biotech may grow further and fulfil new needs without brute-force extraction (of course biotech has been a huge economic sector for millennia - just look at any brewery, bakery, distillery or vintner's).

Bacterium from oak trees could help process rare earth elements

A bacterium found in English oak buds can help separate out the rare earth elements used in technologies such as electric cars and wind turbines

www.newscientist.com

Enhanced rare-earth separation with a metal-sensitive lanmodulin dimer - Nature

A study biochemically and structurally characterizes a lanmodulin from Hansschlegelia quercus with an oligomeric state sensitive to rare-earth ionic radius.

www.nature.com

 

[bobbymike]

New Magnet is Powerful Enough to Lift an Aircraft Carrier

Scientists received the first part of another huge magnet that could one day be the key to limitless energy.

interestingengineering.com

 

[publiusr]

Liquid metal

Liquid metal sticks to surfaces without a binding agent

Everyday materials such as paper and plastic could be transformed into electronic "smart devices" by using a simple new method to apply liquid metal to surfaces, according to scientists in Beijing, China. The study, published June 9 in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, demonstrates a...

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Cheap thermal lens

Researchers: We've created a new lens that could take thermal cameras out of spy films and put them in your back pocket

Like something out of a spy movie, thermal cameras make it possible to "see" heat by converting infrared radiation into an image. They can detect infrared light given off by animals, vehicles, electrical equipment and even people—leading to specialized applications in a number of industries.

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[Richard N]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1557019150484230146

View: https://twitter.com/GraphicPkg_Intl/status/1557019150484230146?s=20

 

[publiusr]

Better than the loop kinds---but the plastic disk circle versions for beer---you leave them alone---they are great greebles.

 

[bobbymike]

High-performing alloy developed to help harness fusion energy​

New tungsten-based alloy better withstands fusion energy environments​

https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0613-fusion-energy/?fbclid=IwAR20YsjCbneNmwIP39tMlwluMQ5THYhmWrWTcHt7Fz8ysB2uUnanlAvChIw_aem_th_AZJOTWQSB5svxQPVUYir5sswFp1rMLVO-UJ1KCHqg9ou0X8NhItWRDwWfthRpMa1cNU

 

[publiusr]

Speaking of fusion…this device made me think of ball lightning:

Tempest in a teacup: Physicists make breakthrough in creating turbulence

Turbulence is all around us. It's in the swirl of coffee and milk in a latte, unfurling along the wings of airplanes and the sides of cars, churning the blood in your heart after the valve snaps closed. Yet we still don't fully grasp all of its rules.

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What a Romulan Plasma Torpedo bank must look like on the inside….if combined with this perhaps?

MARAUDER - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Maybe turbulence—which most reactors try to avoid—should be embraced instead.