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Briefs: Power
NASA’s System-Wide Safety (SWS) project is developing innovative data solutions to assure safe, rapid, and repeatable access to a transformed National Airspace System.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Redox flow batteries are stationary batteries in which the energy is located in the electrolyte, outside of the cell itself, as in a fuel cell.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery generates, stores, and redelivers renewable electricity from the Sun in one device.
Briefs: Power
Scientists have now developed three-dimensional component architectures based on novel, printable thermoelectric materials.
Briefs: Power
The work could lead to improvements in the energy density of lithium batteries that power electric vehicles.
Briefs: Energy
The invention consists of several NTAC layers arranged in a radially concentric series separated by a vacuum gap space.
Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
See Tech Briefs’ most-read stories of 2022.
Blog: Energy
The battery was made using sodium-sulphur — a type of molten salt that can be processed from sea water at a low cost.
NASA Spinoff: Materials
In developing its flow battery, Oregon-based ESS drew from groundbreaking research and development conducted by NASA more than 40 years ago.
Products: Electronics & Computers
See the new products on the market, including power inductors, vibration sensors, a field TV connector, and more.
Briefs: Energy
Researchers have developed a technique that will allow for faster communication systems and better energy-saving electronics.
Briefs: Materials
Computer-Implemented Energy Depletion Radiation Shielding
Radiation shielding for space as well as some terrestrial applications is challenging due to the wide variety and energy ranges of radiation particles.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturing on Mars with 3D Printing
High-Martian content materials would be useful in making coatings to protect equipment from rust or radiation damage.
Briefs: Design
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing a novel microthruster that could provide easy-to-control propulsion during spaceflight.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team has installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size so that they can walk autonomously.
Articles: Test & Measurement
Battery packs, whether made of prismatic, cylindrical, or pouch cells, are cooled by common automotive thermal management systems.
Articles: Energy
General Motors’ new joint-research agreement with OneD underscores the promise of silicon-anode development.
Products: Energy
See the new products for December 2022, including power diodes, a battery management system, gelled tantalum capacitors, and more.
Articles: Automotive
Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) such as golf carts have been traditionally powered by lead-acid batteries.
Articles: Energy
Today, batteries are the new engine for innovative electric vehicle (EV) development.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Power electronics are critical for renewable energy. They require special design and testing to ensure that they will reliably perform their critical duties.
INSIDER: Physical Sciences
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Elisa Riedo and her team have discovered a fundamental friction law that is leading to a deeper understanding of energy dissipation...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A group of scientists in Nagoya University, Japan, have developed a possible solution to one of the biggest problems of the Internet of Energy, energy efficiency. They did so by...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Imagine a technology that can convert, amplify, limit, filter, control, and transform electricity in countless ways to supply power to the electrical grid. These are power electronics, and the...
INSIDER: Power
Once considered science fiction, technology capable of collecting solar power in space and beaming it to Earth to provide a global supply of clean and affordable energy is moving closer to reality. Through...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
To open the Moon to continuous multi-year human and robotic operation, Astrobotic is developing LunaGrid™ — a commercial power system for the surface of the Moon.
Special Reports: Materials
Additive Manufacturing - November 2022
AM/3D Printing is fundamentally changing how products are prototyped and produced in aerospace, medical, electronics, and many other fields. To help you keep pace with the latest advances, we present this...Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
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