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Freeze-Casting Fabricates Advanced Porous Materials
Applications for materials made with this technique may include medical implants such as bone/orthopedic implants.
Bitumen Additive Could Help De-Ice Roads
Mixing salt potassium formate with styrene-butadiene-styrene and adding it to bitumen delays ice formation in lab studies for up to two months.
IHS Buys Automotive Vehicle Data Provider
CARPROOF Corp.offers products and services in vehicle history, appraisal and valuation for the Canadian automotive industry.
LNG-Powered Containerships Set Sail
The ships are part of a fleet of vessels whose owners are opting against heavy fuel oil ahead of new emission regulations that come into effect in 2020.
Video Pill Uses Fluorescent Light for Better Imaging
Video pills have relied on illuminating patients’ innards using a light source, restricting clinicians to conclusions based on what they can see in the spectrum of visible light.
Non-Toxic Foam Fights Fires of Above 1,000C
Fighting large-scale fires usually involves using foams based on synthetic substances that can be toxic for living organisms.
Flow Battery Offers Lower-Cost Energy Storage
The organic aqueous flow battery, developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers, is expected to cost $180 per kilowatt hour once the technology is fully developed.
Positive Displacement Pumps: Operation and Uses
Positive displacement pumps are a category of pumps designed to move fluid at a steady rate through a system.
Fuel-Saving Diesel Soot Sensor Advances
In a pilot program with New York City garbage trucks, the sensors cut the frequency and duration of "filter regeneration" by half and produced a 1-2 percent fuel savings.
Rising Sea Levels Could Curb Coastal Rail Service
Combining historical data with predicted sea-level rises suggests disruptions to rail service to southwest England could rise to 120 days a year by 2100.
Carbon-Neutral Process Turns Rice Waste into Silica Compounds
The technique extracts silica from rice hull ash, saving six tons of carbon emissions per ton of silica compounds produced and 90 percent of the costs.
Magnetic Nanoparticle Chains Could Aid Soft Robot Control
The ability to control the motion of soft robots, coupled with their flexibility, gives them potential applications ranging from biomedical technologies to manufacturing processes.
Swimming Devices Could Deliver Drugs Inside the Body
Researchers gave the devices a catalytic coating on one side, which created a chemical reaction when fuel molecules were added and caused the device to move on a pre-determined route.
Piezoelectric Device Generates Energy from Gravity
The energy yield from the so-called Piezo method, which converts mechanical pressure into electrical energy, is increased from 20% to 80%.
Cowin Crowdsources Features for New Vehicle
Cowin invited the public to submit designs for 13 different aspects of the vehicle, including interior design, infotainment system and headlights.
Supercapacitor Thread Developed That Can Power Phones
Advances mean that thread capable of storing and supplying enough power for common devices, and being manufactured at industrial scale, may be a reality.
SpaceX Launch Vehicle Lands Vertically as Planned
Elon Musk's company completed a vertical landing of its Falcon 9 rocket on December 21, a first for the vehicle.
Plasma Produced in Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Reactor
The first plasma had a duration of 1/10th of a second and achieved a temperature of around 1 million degrees.
Nissan Launches Automotive Design Platform
Engineering VDI uses graphics processing to allow designers access to a virtual 3D CAD workstation.
Stretchable Sensor Made from Chewing Gum, Carbon Nanotubes
To make their sensor suppler, a team member chewed a piece of gum, washed it with ethanol and let it sit overnight.