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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: Energy
A new anode for aqueous batteries uses seawater as an electrolyte.
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Briefs: Energy
The windows reduce the need for air conditioning and simultaneously generate electricity.
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Briefs: Lighting
Polymer cores redirect light from any source to solar cells.
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Briefs: Power
The approach could advance the potential of high-powered, solid-electrolyte lithium batteries.
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UpFront: Wearables
NASA's satellite data reveals the pandemic's effect on our atmosphere, and a team of shoebox-sized rover scouts is prepped for the lunar surface.
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5 Ws: Energy
Fibers sewn into fabrics can turn heat from the Sun into energy that could power textile electronics.
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Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A mobile robot will go to the South Pole of the Moon — with help from radiation-hardened avionics.
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Facility Focus: Robotics, Automation & Control
Purdue University is helping to create better battery monitoring, stretchable biosensors, allergen detectors, and more.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The Controlled Closed-Ecosystem Development System (CCEDS) can be used to develop designs for sustainable, small-scale reproductions of subsets of the Earth’s biosphere and the Orbiting Modular...
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Briefs: Communications
The phased array antenna based on large-area electronics technology could enable many uses of emerging 5G and 6G wireless networks.
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Articles: Energy
NASA-developed fire protection, implantable stimulators, and more.
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Application Briefs: Aerospace
The power and propulsion element of NASA’s Gateway is a high-power, 50-kilowatt solar electric propulsion spacecraft.
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Articles: Motion Control
Hypoid gears have a growing presence in the industrial power transmission and motion control industries.
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Briefs: Propulsion
The “nanoswimmers” could be used to remediate contaminated soil, improve water filtration, or even deliver drugs to targeted areas of the body.
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INSIDER: Power
A team of materials scientists and chemists has determined the proper stack pressure that lithium metal batteries, or LMBs, need to be subjected to...
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INSIDER: Energy
As we trend toward more renewables and distributed energy resources (DERs), the design of the electric distribution system itself imposes physical...
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INSIDER: Energy
Safe, cheap, and sustainable technology for energy storage has been developed at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University (LiU). It is based on two major...
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Briefs: Energy
Scientists are working to improve the image resolution of X-ray techniques.
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Articles: Energy
Silicon Carbide (SiC) optics are becoming more and more prevalent in high-energy laser (HEL) designs, and manufacturers must be aware of the potential risks
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The optically powered machines self-assemble and could be used for nanoscale manipulation of tiny cargo.
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Articles: Materials
Nanotube fibers that turn heat to power; a NASA antenna system; and an antimicrobial coating.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Freetouch turns a smartphone into a touchscreen remote control.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
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Products: Test & Measurement
Power supply ICs, temperature sensors, DC-DC converters, and more.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This paves the way for innovative and more energy-efficient printed electronics.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The e-kit promises to be a low-cost solution in the developing world.
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5 Ws: Energy
The wearable device turns the touch of a finger into a source of power for small electronics and sensors.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Incorporating semiconductor components, microscopic robots are made to walk with standard electronic signals.
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Facility Focus: Unmanned Systems
The "ERDC" helps solve problems in civil and military engineering, geospatial sciences, water resources, and environmental sciences.
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