Around 750 million people do not have access to electricity at night. Solar cells deliver energy during the daytime, but storing it for later use necessitates substantial battery storage.
Airports are busy, especially during the winter. As passengers wait to board, delays get longer when airplanes need to be dowsed with thousands of gallons of deicing fluids that help them fight the frigid winter.
Markforged, creator of the integrated metal and carbon fiber additive manufacturing platform, The Digital Forge, today announced the acquisition of Teton Simulation Software (“Teton”), whose SmartSlice™ technology automates validation and optimizes part performance for additive manufacturing applications.
Zinc-ion batteries have been proposed to overcome the safety and cost concerns of conventional battery technologies.
By Reginald Davey
5 Apr 2022
A team of researchers from Spain have published new research in Materials analyzing the properties of waste product-filled sustainable mortars. The study has implications for valorizing waste streams and improving the circularity and sustainability of the construction industry.
By Reginald Davey
5 Apr 2022
Writing in Materials, scientists have investigated the simultaneous recycling of spent mushroom waste and electric-arc furnace dust to help realize the aims of the circular economy and reduce the carbon emissions associated with the processing of electric-arc furnace dust.
By Reginald Davey
5 Apr 2022
In an article recently published in the open-access journal Biomimetics, researchers presented the preparation of the mycelium composites reinforced with wood veneer for long-lasting building components.
By Surbhi Jain
5 Apr 2022
In an article recently published in the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, researchers discussed the case study of a battery module assembly system for electric vehicles using an end-to-end big data analytics platform for Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled smart factories.
By Surbhi Jain
5 Apr 2022
A common substance that has the potential to quickly and reversibly store and liberate comparatively huge amounts of low-grade heat without decomposing has been discovered by Japanese scientists. The research could result in a more efficient reuse of industrial waste heat.
At the TU Dresden, scientists have initiated a new path towards excellent organic thermoelectric devices. It is a highly efficient modulation doping of highly ordered organic semiconductors under high doping concentrations.
It is not so simple to produce affordable metal-oxide thin films consisting of high electronic quality for solar water splitting.
In an article recently published in the open-access journal Materials, researchers reported the optimization of corrosion resistance of alumina ceramics in nitric acid.
By Surbhi Jain
5 Apr 2022
The igus e-loop, a heavy duty energy chain for drilling machinery, has won an international award recognising its design to protect cables/hoses and operators on oil & gas platforms.
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) announced the completion of the separation of its Scientific Solutions business to a wholly-owned subsidiary, Evident Corporation (“Evident”).
ClassOne Equipment, the industry’s leading provider of refurbished semiconductor equipment will now also be representing a line of brand-new, high-performance bare wafer particle inspection systems from the Japanese manufacturer Takano.