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Activating Disposable Paper Battery with Water

A water-activated disposable paper battery is presented in a proof-of-principle. It could be used to power a wide range of low-power, single-use disposable electronics—such...

Making AI Smarter

Researchers have designed an AI machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with five times the efficiency of the current...

Stickers that can see Inside the Body Through Ultrasound Imaging

Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body's workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient's internal organs. To capture...

Copper 3D Printing with Sub-micron Resolution

High-quality data transmission, high-precision information sensing, and high-sensitivity signal detection are important means to achieve precise perception and effective identification. High-performance chips, terahertz transmission...

Breakthrough in Rechargeable Silicon Batteries

A team of researchers from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has developed a proof-of-concept for novel rechargeable silicon (Si) batteries, as well as its...

3D Print Sensors for Satellites

MIT scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors for orbiting spacecraft. These plasma sensors, also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs),...

Sweating on Command with Artificial Skin

Following the breakthrough with their first sweating artificial skin two years ago, Danqing Liu's multidisciplinary team hasn't been sitting still. Their goal: artificial skin...

STMicroelectronics Reports 2022 Second Quarter Financial Results

STMicroelectronics reported U.S. GAAP financial results for the second quarter ended July 2, 2022. This press release also contains non-U.S. GAAP measures (see Appendix for...

Taking Safety of Autonomous Vehicles to Next Level

Researchers at Ulm University in Germany have recently developed a new framework that could help to make self-driving cars safer in urban and highly...

Ameliorating Image Sensors for Machine Vision

Image sensors measure light intensity, but the angle, spectrum, and other aspects of light must also be extracted to significantly advance machine vision. the University...

New Optoelectronic Functionalities using Large-scale Computations

Assembling Lego-like, 2D heterostructures can give rise to emergent properties and functionalities very different from the intrinsic characteristics of the constituents. Density functional theory (DFT)-based...

Technology for Aqueous Zinc Batteries

Most energy storage systems (ESSs) have recently adopted lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), with the highest technology maturity among secondary batteries. However, these are argued to...

New Drivers for Hydrogen Fuel Cells looks Promising

Hydrogen fuel cells hold a lot of promise as sustainable and eco-friendly energy sources to power transportation by land, air, and sea. But traditional...

Gauging battery performance with Computer Simulation

A crucial but poorly-studied parameter that dictates battery performance is the migration barrier. It determines the rate at which ions move through an electrode...

New Mobile Robots for Safe and Effective Collaboration

Teams of mobile robots could be highly effective in helping humans to complete straining manual tasks, such as manufacturing processes or the transportation of...

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