Today, manufacturing strong magnets is no problem from a technical perspective. It is, however, difficult to produce a permanent magnet with a magnetic field…
In the past, great progress has been made in electric mobility. What's still missing is an efficient, small, stable electrical energy storage unit. Previously…
Infrared makes production processes more efficient
Optical microscopy experts at Colorado State University are once again pushing the envelope of biological imaging.
Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a new method to increase the energy density of…
Though Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the baker's and brewer's yeast of choice for centuries, it poses a unique challenge to researchers using it to make…
Then the requests came flooding in. “So many research groups started asking us for these devices that we couldn't keep up,” says Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma, the Lynn…
Unlike conventional solar cells, which are made of silicon, organic solar cells produce electricity in an active blended layer between two carbon-based…
-In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an electrochemical process…
Powerful electronic components can get very hot. When many components are combined into a single semiconductor chip, heating can become a real problem. An…
This work demonstrates a metamaterial-based approach to develop an optically-driven mechanical oscillator. The device can potentially be used as a new…
How will we cooperate in the future office? It is for granted, that ever increasing data volumes have to be made available within ultra-short time periods….
For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated circuits. They knew that the laws…
Methane, a primary component of natural gas, has emerged recently as an important energy source, largely owing to its abundance and relatively clean nature…
In view of climate change, the environmentally-friendly and efficient use of energy is a central challenge for our highly-developed societies. In its strategy…
Research from the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), led by Prof. Yabing…
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