Electronics & Software

Energy

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.

Stories

44
0
930
30
Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
Document cover
Vehicle Electrification - July 2021
GM electrifies the new Corvette...a French nanomaterials company aims for a 5-minute EV recharge...Triumph unveils a radical new electric sportbike design. These are just a few of the innovations you'll read...

Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Duke Engineering supports clinical ultrasound imaging, restoration of hearing by cochlear implant, megapixel photography, and metamaterials.
Feature Image
Articles: Wearables
Battery recycling, NASA's water treatment, and a wireless wearable transmitter.
Feature Image
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
New cell chemistry utilizes less costly and more abundant materials than lithium-ion batteries.
Feature Image
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Injection of air at the trailing edge of a winglet further reduces drag.
Feature Image
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology harvests electrical energy from waste heat sources.
Feature Image
Q&A: Transportation
Dr. Burak Ozpineci is developing a system that charges electric vehicles while driving.
Feature Image
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This cell could potentially operate around the clock, balancing the power grid over the day-night cycle.
Feature Image
Briefs: Energy
This could make possible embedded devices like a spinal cord-stimulating unit with a battery-powered magnetic transmitter on a wearable belt.
Feature Image
Briefs: Materials
The new material could provide efficient and reusable protection from shock, vibration, and explosion.
Feature Image
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The size and shape of the nanostructure can be controlled as it is assembled piece by piece.
Feature Image
Briefs: Energy
Flywheels offer an environmentally and financially sound choice for protecting critical operations.
Feature Image
Briefs: Automotive
The carbon fiber serves as the electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material.
Feature Image
Briefs: Energy
This portable method could enable hospitals to make their own supply of the disinfectant on demand and at lower cost.
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
Feature Image
Blog: Energy
Could a tool from the dentist's office lead to better recycling of lithium-ion batteries?
Feature Image
Question of the Week: Energy
Will Better Sensors Lead to Greater Adoption of Hydrogen Power?
One of the final hurdles to hydrogen power is securing a safe method for spotting hydrogen leaks. A sensor, featured in the June issue of Sensor Technology, has a greater sensitivity than other detectors.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A sustainable, powerful micro-supercapacitor may be on the horizon. Until now, these high-capacity, fast-charging energy storage devices have been limited by the...
Feature Image
INSIDER: Wearables
North Carolina State University engineers continue to improve the efficiency of a flexible device worn on the wrist that harvests heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
Feature Image
INSIDER: Power
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA) have shown that low-cost organic compounds hold promise for...
Feature Image
INSIDER: Energy
A collaboration led by Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) used X-ray nanoimaging to gain an unprecedented view into solid-state electrolytes, revealing previously undetected crystal...
Feature Image
Blog: Materials
A "self-aware," self-powering material can be used in heart stents, bridges, and even space.
Feature Image
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new power supply from Bicker Elektronik has a backup battery that bridges power failures, brownouts, and flicker.
Feature Image
Briefs: Materials
Due to the chemical stability and durability of industrial polymers, plastic waste does not easily degrade in landfills and is often burned, which produces carbon dioxide and other hazardous gases. In order...
Feature Image
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Artificial intelligence is used to decode X-ray images faster, which could aid innovations in medicine, materials, and energy.
Feature Image
5 Ws: Energy
The invention could help solve the problem of providing clean water off the grid or where low-cost, non-powered water purification is needed.
Feature Image
Technology Leaders: Energy
Learn about the properties of each capacitor option, and their ideal applications.
Feature Image
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The reusable mask would include a heated copper mesh powered by a battery and surrounded by insulating neoprene.
Feature Image
Briefs: Transportation
The technology could help computers process visual information more like the human brain.
Feature Image

Videos