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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The method slashes battery testing times — a key barrier to longer-lasting, faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
Briefs: Aerospace
This new design could conserve energy used for defrosting airplanes, appliances, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Applications include powering portable electronic devices and sensors, and harvesting waste mechanical energy for aircraft, automobile, and other transportation equipment.
Briefs: Energy
The coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long-lasting for the next generation of electric vehicles.
Briefs: Energy
A wearable energy harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging.
Briefs: Energy
A new method provides a more efficient, safer, and cost-effective way to produce cadmium telluride material for solar cells or other applications.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
Briefs: Power
The additive creates fuel from biomass while improving engine performance.
Briefs: Lighting
These thin films hold great promise for solar cells and LEDs.
Briefs: Energy
These actuators provide active flow control for airfoil surfaces and supersonic inlets of wing-borne vehicles.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
Briefs: Energy
An engineered surface treatment can reduce waste and improve efficiency in many processes.
Briefs: Transportation
This controller minimizes the burden on the power grid.
Briefs: Energy
This innovation could lead to better drones, satellites, and biomedical devices.
Briefs: Energy
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A solvent leaches cobalt and lithium for reuse from spent batteries.
Briefs: Energy
This approach is a cost-effective way to convert carbon dioxide gas into methane.
Briefs: Aerospace
Applying a surface-active agent makes metal easier to cut and shape into parts and pieces.
Briefs: Transportation
Power System for Hybrid Heavy-Duty Trucks
Electric motors and gas-alcohol engines could slash pollution levels and greenhouse gases from long-haul trucks.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
Briefs: Energy
This technology enables methane metabolism by yeast.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.
Briefs: Energy
These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
A new method of estimating the optimal trailing aircraft position in a formation increases fuel savings.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Potassium-Oxygen Battery Stores Clean 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. The battery could make renewable energy sources like solar and wind more viable options for the power grid...
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