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Video: Revamped website offers PFAS mitigation solutions
The new BioLargo Inc. website highlights the cleantech developer’s systems and services that tackle water contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Anode design benefits battery performance
The battery architecture features a high cathode loading that offers scope to double the energy density without forming lithium dendrites.
Single-phase vs three-phase AC: What’s the difference?
Learn about the unique characteristics, advantages, drawbacks and suitability of each phase system for different applications.
Monitoring solutions for cutting machines
The solution to both productivity and quality can be found in real-time machine monitoring.
Catalytic process upcycles polyethylene into propylene
Polyethylene, the most widely produced plastic, can be transformed into polypropylene, the second-most widely produced plastic, by application of a catalytic conversion process.
The largest grid-connected flow battery
The system, billed as the world’s largest flow battery, has been connected to the grid in the city of Dalian, China.
Team develops prototype wearable thermal camouflage jacket
the thermal camouflage jacket includes 42 patches of graphene that can be individually controlled using a microcomputer to discharge different levels of thermal radiation, without altering their temperature.
AI-guided laser beams aimed at cockroaches
The device features a Jetson Nano, an electronic device that runs machine-learning software; two cameras; a galvanometer, which is an instrument for detecting and measuring small electric currents; and a laser.
Design tips for toroidal transformers
Compared to conventional transformers, toroidal transformers offer greater efficiency, lower energy losses and vibration, and more compact size.
New data-sharing platform helps optimize infrastructure industry
The platform provides a comprehensive map interface with utility locations, site hazards, geotechnical conditions, land rights and permit constraints.
An efficient approach to rare Earth recovery from scrap metal
The process slashes both the energy and product consumption involved with rare Earth element recovery.
Video: Solar solutions for transportation refrigeration units
A solar panel solution for a trailer refrigeration unit reduces jump-start service calls, premature battery replacements and diesel fuel usage.
Back to the basics in rotating contact potentiometers
Rotary contact potentiometers are used to obtain adjustable supply voltage in frequency attenuation and volume control applications (or audio control devices).
ANCILLARY program tech would enable warfighters to deploy, retrieve VTOL systems without infrastructure
As part of the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY X-Plane (ANCILLARY), the agency plans to build a plane that launches from ship flight decks, for instance, in adverse weather without the launch and recovery equipment generally required of these systems.
Rocket scientists developing torpedo-like missile that can swim and fly
According to blueprints recently detailed in the Journal of Solid Rocket Technology, which is published by the Chinese Society of Astronautics, the torpedo-like missile will demonstrate both range and speeds much greater than any torpedo currently in development.
Tips to improve power conversion efficiency
New materials, advanced controllers and improved power and switching converters play a large role in enhancing power conversion efficiency.
Fundamentals of process safety
When process safety goes awry, the incident makes the nightly or even national news, and the surrounding communities can feel the impact.
Self-sterilizing film kill viruses using room lights
The Queen’s University Belfast team suggests that the self-sterilizing film could be used to replace disposable plastic films used in the healthcare industry and also used on surfaces in food production factories.
Defining the Smart Manufacturing Journey: A Roundtable Series
We've collected leading experts from standards organizations, industry and academics to discuss the smart manufacturing odyssey.. Won't you join us for the conversation?
Modified X-ray machine identifies explosives in luggage
Researchers scanned a set of objects featuring embedded explosives and determined that the machine could identify the explosives with 100% accuracy in the lab.