On-Demand Webinars : Energy
Thermal Management Crisis: Knowing Your Passive Solution Options
Product development engineers are continually challenged to make the next-generation design of their devices smaller and lighter while increasing functionality. Next-generation sensors, power amplifiers, and FPGAs ensure that power consumption will continue to increase, and...
Articles : Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Products of Tomorrow: December 2019
Q&A : Materials
Q&A: Refrigeration by Twisting Fibers
Blog : Wearables
'Direct Thermal Charging Cell' Turns Waste Heat into Power
On-Demand Webinars : Energy
Online Design Tools for Thermal Applications
Design engineers working on thermal applications used to have to meet with a sales representative or scan hundreds of catalog pages to locate products that they hoped would solve specific problems in their applications. Not only was this method time-consuming, but it was also expensive because...
On-Demand Webinars : Energy
Cooling Strategies for High-Power Electronics Cabinets
Electronics are tightly packaged into sealed enclosures in a variety of different applications, both industrial and military. From control cabinets in dusty factories, to cabinets aboard submarines, the combination of total power and environmentally sealed designs create a thermal...
Products : Manufacturing & Prototyping
New on the Market: August 2019
Binder USA, Camarillo, CA, introduced the 720 Series of miniature circular connectors with a snap-in IP67 twin distributor. The distributor — a single male connector into two...
Facility Focus : Test & Measurement
Facility Focus: National Energy Technology Laboratory
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory — with sites in Anchorage, AK; Albany, OR; Morgantown, WV; and Pittsburgh, PA...
Briefs : Nanotechnology
Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion
Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE™) allows creation of wire, bar, and tubular extrusions that show significant improvement in material properties; for example, magnesium extrusions have...
Briefs : Electronics & Computers
Thin-Film System Converts Heat from Electronics into Energy
Nearly 70 percent of the energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat. Much of that heat is less than 100 °C and emanates from things like computers, cars, or...
Briefs : Propulsion
Achieving Carbon Footprint Reduction with Flywheel Technology
Recent technical advances have enabled flywheel energy storage systems (FESS) to become more compact and able to support higher-power applications. Due to their proven...
Briefs : Aerospace
Flexible, Spinning Heat Shield for Spacecraft
Heat shields are essentially used as the brakes to stop spacecraft from burning up and crashing on entry and reentry into a planet's atmosphere. Current spacecraft heat shield methods include...
Blog : Energy
A 'Solid' Idea for Powering Spacecraft: Thermoacoustics
Briefs : Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thermal Energy Storage and Monitoring
Water heaters and other thermal energy storage devices increase the temperature of a medium above an ambient or normal temperature, and store the warmer medium. Water heaters, in particular, must store...
Thermoelectric devices generate power when one side of the device is a different temperature from the other. Instead of requiring two different temperature inputs at...
Question of the Week : Energy
Will low-cost 'smart glass' catch on?
Our second INSIDER story today featured an achievement from University of Delaware engineers: liquid-activated panels that change from transparent to opaque.
Briefs : Energy
Flexible, Gravity-Fed Heat Pipe
The advent of cryocooler technology ushers in an era where a cryogenic environment is created and maintained locally. It is no longer necessary to transport cryogen from a factory where it is produced to the...
Articles : Sensors/Data Acquisition
SAE WCX Preview: Experience the Evolution
Revolutionary changes are driving the mobility industry forward. Explore the next generation of transportation engineering at SAE’s WCX: World Congress Experience from April 10-12 in Detroit, MI....
Briefs : Energy
Cryo-Fluid Capacitor (CFC) for Solid-State Storage and Supply-on-Demand of Cryogenic Fluids
Storage and transfer of fluid commodities such as oxygen, hydrogen, natural gas, nitrogen, argon, etc. are absolute necessities in virtually every industry. These fluids are typically contained in one of two ways: as low-pressure cryogenic liquids, or as...
Briefs : Energy
Wearable Solar Thermoelectric Generator
Energy harvesting is a diverse field encompassing many technologies that involve a process that captures small amounts of energy that would otherwise be lost as heat, light, sound, vibration, or...
Briefs : Energy
Superalloy Surface Treatment for Improved Performance of Power Turbines
To produce power more efficiently and cleanly, the next generation of power turbines will have to operate at extreme temperatures and pressures. Currently, single-crystal, nickel-based superalloys are used in such extreme environments. MCrAlY coatings (where M = Co, Ni, or...
Q&A : Communications
Q&A: Georgia Tech's Dr. Shannon Yee Demonstrates Simple Biosensors, Powered by Body Heat
Using flexible conducting polymers and novel circuitry patterns printed on paper, researchers in Dr. Yee’s laboratory have demonstrated...
Researchers from Lancaster University are looking to pave the next generation of smart road surfaces — with piezoelectric ceramics. When embedded in road surfaces, the tiles...
INSIDER : Energy
New Device Harnesses Heat to Power Computers
One of the biggest problems with computers is keeping them cool so they don’t overheat. University of Nebraska–Lincoln engineers developed an alternative energy source that would allow...
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics.
News : Electronics & Computers
New Solar Material Releases Heat on Demand
A layer-by-layer film developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could harvest sunlight and release heat on demand hours or days later.
Briefs : Materials
White, Electrically Conductive, Radiation-Stable, Thermal Control Coating
A highly reflective, white conductive coating system was developed using a layered approach with a combination of commercially available white conductive pigments within a conductive binder system. The top coating is a space-stable, radiation-resistant, highly reflective...
News : Materials
Device Uses Temperature Differences to Create Electrical Charge
Power Felt is a new thermoelectric device developed by researchers at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University. By touching a small...
Products : Energy
Boost Converter with Battery Management for Energy Harvesting
The bq25504 from Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) is an integrated energy harvesting nanopower management solution for ultra low power applications. The boost converter is...
News : Software
A Search Engine for Clean Energy Materials
For everything from batteries to photovoltaics, new materials are crucial to building a clean energy economy. To speed up the development cycle, Berkeley Lab and MIT researchers have teamed up to...
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Large Cable, Large Problems: Considerations for Innovation
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