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Products: Imaging
See what's new on the market in February 2023, including connectors for energy storage systems, power supplies, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
A new kind of solar panel has achieved 9 percent efficiency in converting water into hydrogen and oxygen — mimicking a crucial step in natural photosynthesis.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
An MIT-developed heat treatment aims to transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Instead of disposing of batteries after three years, we could have recyclable batteries that last three times longer.
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INSIDER: Power
Researchers at Arizona State University and Northrop Grumman are working on a new project to create power transistors from diamond. The results could yield efficiencies that significantly shrink the size of electrical...
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INSIDER: Power
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have created vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on metal foils that could be a boon for energy storage and the electronics industry.
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INSIDER: Power
On January 3rd, the Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) launched into orbit a prototype, dubbed the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD), which will test several key components of an...
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Special Reports: Automotive
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Vehicle Electrification - January 2023
Innovation is happening at a rapid pace in the e-mobility space. Read this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and Truck & Off-Highway Engineering to learn about...

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.
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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.
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Briefs: Energy
A highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery generates, stores, and redelivers renewable electricity from the Sun in one device.
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Briefs: Power
Scientists have now developed three-dimensional component architectures based on novel, printable thermoelectric materials.
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Briefs: Materials
The work could lead to improvements in the energy density of lithium batteries that power electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Energy
The invention consists of several NTAC layers arranged in a radially concentric series separated by a vacuum gap space.
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
See Tech Briefs’ top-performing quizzes of 2022.
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Blog: Power
See Tech Briefs’ most-read stories of 2022.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
The battery was made using sodium-sulphur — a type of molten salt that can be processed from sea water at a low cost.
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NASA Spinoff: Energy
In developing its flow battery, Oregon-based ESS drew from groundbreaking research and development conducted by NASA more than 40 years ago.
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Products: Power
See the new products on the market, including power inductors, vibration sensors, a field TV connector, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
Researchers have developed a technique that will allow for faster communication systems and better energy-saving electronics.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
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: Energy
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: Propulsion
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing a novel microthruster that could provide easy-to-control propulsion during spaceflight.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A team has installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size so that they can walk autonomously.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Battery packs, whether made of prismatic, cylindrical, or pouch cells, are cooled by common automotive thermal management systems.
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Articles: Energy
General Motors’ new joint-research agreement with OneD underscores the promise of silicon-anode development.
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Products: Energy
See the new products for December 2022, including power diodes, a battery management system, gelled tantalum capacitors, and more.
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Articles: Energy
Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) such as golf carts have been traditionally powered by lead-acid batteries.
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