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INSIDER: Automotive
Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. New technology developed by scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Xi'an...
Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Bio-interfacing and biodegradable flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) devices can help tackle some of the world’s great challenges including environmental degradation and food scarcity.
Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Technology Leaders: Internet of Things
Low-power radio design is enabling new connected IoT products for consumer, commercial, industrial, and medical markets.
Blog: Materials
The Los Angeles, CA-based company Nanotech Energy is using graphene to prevent thermal runaway and create a non-flammable battery.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The AI system can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
The method slashes battery testing times — a key barrier to longer-lasting, faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will 'Metal-Air Scavengers' Power Vehicles and Robots?
Penn Engineering researchers have introduced a "metal-air scavenger" vehicle, which gets energy not from a battery, but from breaking chemical bonds in the aluminum surface it travels over. The technology, which works like both a battery and an energy harvester, has 13 times more energy density...
Blog: Test & Measurement
A Berkeley Lab system provides a much more sensitive probe of the chemical state of battery electrodes, especially when the battery is operated under high capacity mode.
Briefs: Energy
The coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long-lasting for the next generation of electric vehicles.
Briefs: Transportation
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
Blog: Automotive
A reader asks, "What market drivers need to occur for electric vehicles to be considered an acceptable replacement for vehicles with internal combustion engines?"
Question of the Week: Energy
Will We Ever Recharge Electric Batteries As Quickly As We Get Gas?
Stanford University researchers have developed a machine learning-based method that cuts battery testing times by 98 percent. The team says that their A.I. technique could lead to a future where an electric battery is recharged in the time it takes to stop at a gas station. Watch...
Articles: Data Acquisition
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
Articles: Propulsion
Your preview of one of the largest technical mobility events of the year.
Articles: Materials
Biodegradable batteries, solid-state ultracapacitors, and infrared camouflage.
Briefs: Energy
An engineered surface treatment can reduce waste and improve efficiency in many processes.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This controller minimizes the burden on the power grid.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
Briefs: Energy
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
To improve the aqueous lithium-ion battery, RPI researchers tried out niobium tungsten oxide.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A solvent leaches cobalt and lithium for reuse from spent batteries.
Briefs: Communications
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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.
Blog: Materials
Tech Briefs in 2019 celebrated historic NASA anniversaries, new ways to power electronics, and innovative hacks of our “smartest” technologies.
Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Will ‘Unbreakable Batteries’ Find a Place in Electronics and Vehicles?
Increasingly, lithium-ion batteries are supporting portable electronics, electric vehicles, and grid storage.
Technology Leaders: Energy
As lithium-ion battery production doubles, more viable energy storage solutions are needed.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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