Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body…
Ferromagnets, or more precisely, magnets – are extremely demanded materials in modern electronics. The magnets present in almost every device – TVs, computers,…
Another advantage is that the new brine-to-water prototype requires only one fourth of the refrigerant compared to conventional heat pumps available on the…
Electrochemical energy storage, mainly based on ionic intercalation/motion or adsorption/diffusion in electrodes, has been utilized in last two centuries….
Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy of sunlight with light-harvesting antennas and transfer it to a reaction centre. Transporting…
The artificial skin developed by Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team consists of hexagonal cells about the size of a two-euro coin (i.e. about one inch in…
The lithium-ion battery is ubiquitous. Because of its versatility, this battery can be tailored to powering cell phones, laptops, power tools or electric…
The Fraunhofer Institute of Reliability and Microintegration IZM is a renowned expert for wafer-level packaging and substrate technologies. This expertise made…
The artificial skin developed by Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team consists of hexagonal cells about the size of a two-euro coin (i.e. about one inch in…
At first glance, the idea of using mobile phones for chemical analyses seems a daring one. After all, the infrared spectrometers used for such analyses today…
Using an atomic-force microscope fitted with an electrode tip 1,000 times smaller than a human hair, University of Oregon researchers have identified in real…
The steadily increasing usage of streaming services, online games and social media results in ever-increasing data rates and thus ever shorter signals in the…
Anyone who has ever steered a child's kite knows the feeling: the wind grips the kite and pulls the string. The rope is quickly tensioned, the pulley rotates…
Superconductors are materials capable of conducting an electric current with no resistance whatsoever. They are behind the powerful electromagnets in particle…
Liquid and solid – most people are unaware that there can be states in between. Liquid crystals are representative of one such state. While the molecules in…
Contact lenses that can monitor your health as well as correct your eyesight aren't science fiction, but an efficient manufacturing method – finding a way to…
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