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Castrol EDGE Fuses Video Games Technology and Real World Driving Experience in Titanium Trial Driving Challenge

Castrol EDGE has premiered its latest Titanium Trial driving challenge, featuring Formula Drift professional Matt Powers driving his Roush Stage 3 Mustang whilst wearing a state-of-the-art Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 headset: blind to the real world around him, but fully-immersed in a rapidly changing 3D virtual world.

From Castrol 27 May 2015

Materialise Releases Latest Mimics Innovation Suite

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, global 3D Printing pioneer Materialise announces the launch of the latest Mimics Innovation Suite, including the Mimics® 18.0 and 3-matic® 10.0 software solutions. The new and improved tools increase user-friendliness, reduce segmentation time and make design and modeling even more realistic. It’s also possible to 3D print the results in full color. In addition, the visualization capabilities have been expanded with a fluoroscopy view and virtual X-ray simulation.

From Materialise 27 May 2015

Researchers Develop Commercially Viable Polymer Solar Cells with Improved Efficiency

A group of scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science have developed a new type of polymer solar cell based on 'inverted' architecture and well-designed materials, which has an improved efficiency of 10%.

26 May 2015

Shape Memory Composite Helps Design Customisable Footwear for Women

A consortium of EU-funded project Demo ShopInstantShoe has developed a novel modifiable female shoe using a unique memory shape composite consisting of Nitinol material and leather.

26 May 2015

Researchers at Columbia Engineering Create the First Single-Molecule Diode

A new technique has been developed by a research team from Columbia Engineering in order to create the first ever single-molecule diode.

By Alexander Chilton 26 May 2015

New Viscous Sheet Simulation Technique Enables Color 3D Printing

Changxi Zheng, assistant professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering along with China's Zhejiang University researchers has created a method that enabling hydrographic printing, with exact alignment. Hydrographic printing is a well-known industrial process that transfers color ink of a thin film to the surface of 3D structures to color them.

26 May 2015

Innovative Method to Design High-Current, High-Performing Superconductors

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois have shown that superconductivity could be boosted by radiation bombardment.

26 May 2015

Novel Electronic Devices Self-Destruct When Triggered By Heat

Researchers at the University of Illinois (U. of I) have developed electronic devices that self-destruct when heated. This study was led by Scott R. White, an aerospace engineering professor at the U. of I.

22 May 2015

ORNL Researchers Develop Temperature-Controlled Shape-Memory Polymer

A research team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Washington State University and the University of Idaho has succeeded in developing a shape-memory polymer that can change from its original shape, through a sequence of temporary shapes, before finally returning back to its initial form.

22 May 2015