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Finnish Facility Produces Fuels from Carbon Dioxide
The Soletair demo plant is designed to use carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals.
Hydrogel Strings Get Muscle from Mussels
An amino acid found in the sticky feet of mussels makes biocompatible nanofibers line up into strong hydrogel strings.
How the Solar Spectrum Can Satisfy a “Full Earth”
Simultaneously use of different parts of sunlight’s spectrum to produce crops, generate electricity, and purify water on the same piece of land could provide resources in a “full-earth” scenario.
Hot Tests Begin at Radioactive Solid Waste Facility
The facility is a key element in decommissioning the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
Rusty Steel Mesh Reclaimed as Battery Electrodes
Coin cells made with these new electrodes demonstrate excellent capacity, discharge voltages, and cycle stability.
New Val-Matic Swing-Flex® & Surgebuster® Check Valves
Val-Matic has introduced two new check valves, the Swing-Flex® and the Surgebuster®. Both valves are designed for years of maintenance-free service and feature a short, 35° stroke to minimize slam-related surges by closing quickly.
Cellulose Microbeads Reduce Plastic Waste in Rivers and Oceans
Microbeads made from cellulose can replace their plastic counterparts, preventing tons of waste plastic from entering inland waterways and the world’s oceans.
Thermal Imaging Camera For Your Smart Phone
CompactPRO is an advanced thermal imaging camera designed to plug into your smartphone. Use with your iPhone or Android phone to get high resolution thermal images.
Supercomputer Performs Largest-ever Virtual Universe Simulation
Simulations generated a gigantic catalogue of about 25 billion virtual galaxies from 2 trillion digital particles.
VIDEO: Transformative Food Could Reshape the Way Food is Transported
MIT’s Media Lab and Tangable Media Group have teamed up to revolutionize food printing called the transformative appetite. Using food printing technology, pasta is printed in a 2-D shape that is flat until it is put into boiling water.
Cardiac-Monitoring Cars Can Improve Road Safety
The goal: monitor and analyze the physiology of the person driving and predict if they are going to have adverse cardiac events.
An Electrocatalytic Route to Chemicals from Lignin
The method breaks down lignin and converts it into commodity chemicals.
EVs Can Help Support the Grid, PG&E Study Confirms
Using EVs as a flexible grid resource could lead to cost savings associated with operating and maintaining the grid as well as owning an EV.
Processes Enabling Nanomanufacturing
The processes that nanomanufacturing engineers use to fabricate nanomaterials, nanoelectronic devices and other nanotechnology products depend on their nanotechnology approach and the specific nanotechnology product being manufactured. Two major approaches to nanomanufacturing are top down and bottom up. Nanofabrication processes enable the bottom-up approach. Nanoimprinting and self-assembly processes are newer nanofabrication processes under development. Powder and particle fabrication methods enable the top-down approach.
New Research on Turbulence May Lead to Cleaner Coal Plants
Researchers from RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Aerodynamics (AIA) have been studying the use of computation to understand turbulence. The researchers now think they may have just found a solution for cleaner coal plants.
Detecting Hazardous Radioactive Substances from Even Greater Distances
A new method for detecting hazardous radioactive substances from remote distances has been developed by Professor Eunmi Choi and a team of UNIST researchers.
First Monolayer Magnet Discovered
Breakthrough research has identified the first material—chromium triiodide, CrI3--that retains its intrinsic magnetic properties when formed in a single layer.
Autonomous Machines On Track Toward Greater Independence
As in the case of autonomous vehicles becoming more reality than a work of science fiction, so too is the inevitability that machines will become more independent in the future, according to a study published in EPJ B.
Using Chemical Fingerprints to Fight Illegal Logging
A recent research paper proposes forensic chemical analysis to solve another problem plaguing the lumber industry: illegal logging.
A New Way to Harness Wind Power Every Day
Scientists from the University of Rhode Island, Florida Atlantic University, USA and Wuhan University China have discovered a new way to collect and use wind power, even if there isn’t any wind.