Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Touring IPP’s fusion devices per virtual-reality viewer

You seem to be standing in the plasma vessel looking around: Where otherwise plasmas with temperatures of several million degrees are being investigated, with…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Monitoring Tiny Room Movements with Ricocheting Radio Waves

Relief may be on the horizon for anyone who has ever jumped around a room like a jack-in-the-box to get motion-sensing lights to turn back on, thanks to a new…

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Advancing 3D Printing for Next-Gen Lithium-Ion Batteries

Lithium-ion battery capacity can be vastly improved if, on the microscale, their electrodes have pores and channels. An interdigitated geometry, though it does…

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Looking inside the lithium battery's black box

-Lithium metal batteries hold tremendous promise for next-generation energy storage because the lithium metal negative electrode has 10 times more theoretical…

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New Technique Simplifies Ceramic Film Fabrication for OPV

As environmental and energy issues have become increasingly aggravated in recent years, photovoltaic (PV) cells are drawing attention as a new energy source….

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Perovskite Solar Cells: What Happens When the Lights Go Out?

Perovskite solar cells are currently electrifying the solar cell community. This new, cheap, and easy-to-process material has almost ideal physical properties…

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Printed Electronics: Purdue’s Cost-Effective Innovation Unveiled

The low-cost process, developed by Purdue University researchers, combines tools already used in industry for manufacturing metals on a large scale, but uses…

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Smart Safe Zinc Ion Battery: Innovations in Sol-Gel Electrolytes

Reversible sol-gel transition hydrogels have received abundant research interests owing to their smart responsibility to ambient temperature. They are normally…

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Search and Rescue Robot Developed at Ben-Gurion University

A new highly maneuverable search and rescue robot that can creep, crawl and climb over rough terrain and through tight spaces has been developed by Ben-Gurion…

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Key Policies for Low Carbon Vehicle Market Success

The new study, led by IIASA researcher David McCollum and IIASA and University of East Anglia, UK, researcher Charlie Wilson, is the first to take a global…

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Sodium’s Impact on Boosting Solar Cell Efficiency

Green energy gained by photovoltaic amounts ca. 6% of Germany’s gross power production . The most common solar cells currently used are made out of silicon….

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Darmstadt Model Project: Testing Future Factory Networks

Darmstadt model project is testing the production of the future

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PV-TEC Reopens: A New Era for Photovoltaic Innovation

In February 2017, a fire rendered the equipment at Fraunhofer ISE’s Photovoltaic Technology Evaluation Center PV-TEC in the Solar Info Center in Freiburg…

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Generate Electricity From Waste Heat: New Innovations Explained

Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat…

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Manipulating Single Atoms: Advances in Nanotechnology Explained

As an epoch-making achievement in nanotechnology, the scanning tunneling microscope has since the late 1980s been able to move atoms over surfaces, and has…

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Training AI With Artificial X-Rays for Enhanced Diagnostics

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds real potential for improving both the speed and accuracy of medical diagnostics. But before clinicians can harness the power…

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