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Your destination for advances in renewable energy, energy storage technologies, and trends in portable solar power, energy harvesting, wind power, and alternative energy. Design engineers will find the latest applications and multimedia resources including videos, white papers, webinars, and technical briefs.

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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This method increases burn rate of solid propellants.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain.
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Briefs: Propulsion
Thrusters based on magnetic reconnection could complete long-distance missions in a shorter period of time.
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Briefs: Energy
The proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
Bioinspired cellulose nanofibrils can be controlled by electricity.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology provides highly efficient grid-scale electricity storage at a fifth of the cost of current storage technologies.
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Briefs: Energy
The cathodes could enhance energy density of next-generation Li-ion batteries.
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Articles: Transportation
Lithium-metal solid-state batteries can provide a safer, more energy-dense alternative to current technology.
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Articles: Energy
A disruptive manufacturing technology now offers reduced manufacturing costs and improved volumetric energy density in all-solid cells.
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Articles: Aerospace
See how WiBotic — a maker of wireless charging and fleet energy management technologies — is preparing robots for the Moon.
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Briefs: Energy
The alloy could influence the way energy storage devices are designed and manufactured.
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Blog: Transportation
Tech Briefs readers ask a series of questions about the future of plastics in battery electric vehicles.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Researchers from Cornell University have redesigned the battery so that aluminum more easily integrates into a battery's electrodes.
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Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will Underwater Exploration Go Battery-Free?

A Tech Brief featured in our April issue highlighted a battery-free pinpointing system from MIT called Underwater Backscatter Localization. Rather than emitting its own acoustic signals, the “UBL” reflects modulated signals from its environment. The reflections provide researchers with positioning...

Products: Materials
Displacement sensors, metal 3D printers, shielding materials, and more.
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Facility Focus: Energy
See the advanced materials, complex systems, and bioengineering technologies being created at Cornell.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Shape and environment can cause materials to move without motors or hands.
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Briefs: Materials
The alloy has applications in jet turbine disks and other high-stress and/or high-temperature environments.
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Q&A: Energy
Professor Qiaoqiang Gan of the University at Buffalo (NY) and his team developed a unique two-in-one system that uses solar energy for simultaneously cooling and heating — without electricity.
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Briefs: Energy
A new electrocatalyst efficiently converts carbon dioxide into ethanol.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
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Briefs: Materials
The energy storage device can store a charge up to 900 times greater than state-of-the-art supercapacitors.
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Briefs: Energy
The device recharges the internal battery of implants without invasive surgery.
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Briefs: Imaging
The micro-display could enable smartphones and televisions with resolutions of more than 10,000 pixels per inch.
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Briefs: Energy
Biofuels can achieve cost parity with petroleum fuels.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
These robust supercapacitors still work when stretched to eight times their original size.
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Briefs: Materials
This composite can be used in lithium metal batteries.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
You have the power. That's the idea behind a "wearable microgrid" from the University of California San Diego that harvest and stores energy from your body to power electronics.
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INSIDER: Green Design & Manufacturing

Rice University engineers have suggested a colorful solution to next-generation energy collection: Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) in your windows. The team designed and...

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