Keyword: Energy conservation

Briefs: Materials
Researchers have fabricated a novel device that could dramatically boost the conversion of heat into electricity. If perfected, the technology could help recoup some of the recoverable heat energy that is wasted in the U.S. at a rate of about $100 billion each year.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
An MIT-developed heat treatment aims to transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Researchers have developed a technique that will allow for faster communication systems and better energy-saving electronics.
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Briefs: AR/AI
The new method could slash the energy cost of AI.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
But they’re not yet small enough to compete in computing and other applications where electric circuits continue to reign.
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Briefs: Energy
The device uses a thermoelectric module to generate voltage and current from the temperature gradient between the cell and the air.
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Briefs: Energy

Many technical processes only use part of the energy consumed. The remaining fraction leaves the system in the form of waste heat. Frequently, this heat is released into the...

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Articles: AR/AI
Increasingly powerful integrated circuit and system-on-chip devices are growing in importance to vehicle design.
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Briefs: Energy
A new catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost of the process.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The engine is approximately 10 billion times smaller than a car engine.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An already ubiquitous material in outdoor photovoltaic modules could be repurposed for indoor devices with low-capacity batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
Chilled panels use less energy than conventional A/C and work in open spaces.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An enhanced polymer could be used for more energy-efficient systems with a smaller carbon footprint.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Using gold nanomaterials, this disk can hold data securely for more than 600 years.
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Briefs: Transportation
The technology could help computers process visual information more like the human brain.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The chip combines two functions — logic operations and data storage — into a single architecture, paving the way to more efficient devices.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A customizable smart window harnesses and manipulates solar power to save energy and cut costs.
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Briefs: Energy
The patch could serve as a personal thermostat and save energy.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The capacitor could enable a new generation of electronics that will require less power and generate less heat.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications include powering portable electronic devices and sensors, and harvesting waste mechanical energy for aircraft, automobile, and other transportation equipment.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.
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Briefs: Energy

Researchers have developed a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery with a cathode that stores the energy produced by a chemical reaction in a metal-oxygen or metal-air battery....

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Briefs: Energy

Car engines, laptop computers, cellphones, and refrigerators all heat up with overuse. That heat can be captured and turned into energy using a method that produces electricity from heat. The...

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Technology Leaders: Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Engineers today are feeling the pressure to get more done in less time, be experts in multiple disciplines, and use their resources more efficiently to maximize profits. This environment is shifting the way...

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Briefs: Data Acquisition

Smart objects are required to store and retrieve massive amounts of data quickly without consuming too much power. Millions of new memory cells could be part of a computer chip and provide that...

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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Two very challenging problems facing the U.S. and the world are energy security and global climate change, largely due to dependence on fossil fuels. Cost-effective technologies have been developed that are...

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