Laser lights the way
A new way to observe laser interactions could improve laser-based manufactureCredit: © 2021 Sakurai et al. Despite the enormous amount ...
Tag: Industrial Engineering/Chemistry
How AI beats spreadsheets in modelling future volumes for city waste management
Credit: Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg Growing cities tend to run out of land for waste management and new ...
Controlling bubble formation on electrodes
Study finds the wettability of porous electrode surfaces is key to making efficient water-splitting or carbon-capturing systemsCredit: Image courtesy of ...
Biocrude passes the 2,000-hour catalyst stability test
Sewage and food waste biocrude conversion process reaches major milestoneCredit: (Illustration by Michael Perkins | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) RICHLAND, ...
New computational methods allow for accurate determination of gene expression
Credit: Penn State College of Engineering A more accurate measurement and interpretation of gene activities, using large volumes of sequencing ...
Do you know the way to Berkelium, Californium?
Heavy elements and a really powerful microscope help scientists map uncharted paths toward new materials and cancer therapiesCredit: Andy Minor ...
Mixed reality gets a machine learning upgrade
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to enhance the ability of a mixed-reality mobile viewer to digitally remove obstructions ...
Electrochemical synthesis of formate from CO2 using a Sn/reduced graphene oxide catalyst
Credit: Kanazawa University Decreasing the emission and efficient utilization (fixation) of carbon dioxide (CO2) are worldwide issues to prevent global ...
Recharge your batteries
University of Utah engineering professor finds new inroads in fast charging for lithium-ion batteriesCredit: Vincent Horiuchi/University of Utah College of ...
uOttawa research team plays key role in global detection of COVID-19
Credit: University of Ottawa Did you know there's a little bit of uOttawa inside COVID-19 test kits used worldwide? That's ...
Florida company licenses NASA technology that keeps electronics cool
Credit: NASA From shutting down unexpectedly to exploding, electronics can wreak havoc when they overheat. A Florida-based company called Protodromics ...
Tunable smart materials
Researchers at Osaka University invent tunable microparticles that can assemble into larger structures based on the content of attached chemical ...
Diamond color centers for nonlinear photonics
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba use color center defects in diamonds to demonstrate second-order nonlinear optical effects, which may ...
Big breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. ...
A new dye shakes up solar cells
Credit: Jean-David Décoppet and Alejandra Hauser. In 1991, scientists Brian O'Regan and Michael Grätzel at EPFL published a seminal paper ...
The eukaryotic cell nucleus resembles the layout of a superstore
Credit: Source: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The headquarter of a eukaryotic cell is the nucleus, and most of the cell's ...
Unveiling smart buoys for marine environment monitoring!
Credit: Seawater Resources Technology Research Center of UNIST "Seawater battery-based smart buoys can monitor and collect over 15 different marine ...
‘Opposite action’ could improve industrial gas separation
A design concept changes how materials separate gaseous mixturesCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University A more energy-efficient method improves how an industrial ...
Teamwork makes light shine ever brighter
Combined energy sources return a burst of photons from plasmonic gold nanogapsCredit: Natelson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 18, ...
Size matters when it comes to atomic properties
Credit: Neuroncollective, Daniel Spacek, Pavel Travnicek A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental ...