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Briefs: Materials
The device brings lithium metal batteries one step closer to commercial viability.
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Briefs: Energy
A “butter-like” interlayer material boosts current density and increases safety.
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Briefs: Materials
Drop-in replacements for lithium ion batteries would not pose a fire danger.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The battery design increases the number of possible cycles from tens to more than 100 with little degradation.
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Briefs: Energy
Lithium batteries made using this electrode type could be much safer than typical lithium metal-based batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
Using ceramic material and graphene, the toughness of solid-state lithium-ion batteries can be doubled.
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Briefs: Energy
Organic Lithium-Powered Batteries
These batteries are more environmentally friendly while retaining performance, stability, and storage capacity.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A new roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology shows potential for the detection of subtle human motions and the real-time monitoring of body postures for healthcare applications.
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Briefs: Energy
The technology could lead to production of fuels, building materials, and other products in a carbon-neutral way.
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Briefs: Energy
These are important traits in electronics and electrical systems including electric cars, industrial drills, and electric grids.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology is useful for energy, industrial, and aerospace applications.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology offers the possibility to both bolster computer power and create smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient computer memory technologies.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This method creates a thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
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Briefs: Energy
The new technology demonstrates a 20 percent savings in fuel in typical passenger car low-load operating conditions.
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Briefs: Automotive
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The miniaturized, autonomous, reconfigurable solar sail is capable of very fine maneuvering by small surface deformation.
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Briefs: Energy
The patch could serve as a personal thermostat and save energy.
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Briefs: Software
An automated system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Solid-State Lithium Battery
This thin film battery can be used for on-package power in mass market electric vehicles (EVs) and electronic devices.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Scientists have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials widely used in batteries, electronics, and extreme environments....
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Briefs: Energy
These can replace rechargeable lithium-ion batteries commonly used in robotics, power tools, and grid-scale energy storage.
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Briefs: Energy
A new design enables artificial photosynthesis to generate fuel that can power homes and vehicles.
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Briefs: Energy
This type of energy source could be the basis for robots that seek out and “eat” metal, breaking down its chemical bonds for energy like humans do with food.
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Briefs: Energy
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
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Briefs: Energy
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
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