New polymer manufacturing process saves 10 orders of magnitude of energy (12/05/2018)
Makers
of cars, planes, buses -- anything that needs strong, lightweight and heat
resistant parts -- are poised to benefit from a new manufacturing process that
requires only a quick touch from a small heat source to send a cascading
hardening wave through a polymer. Researchers have developed a new
polymer-curing process that could reduce the cost, time and energy needed,
compared with the current manufacturing process.
Heat and sound wave interactions in solids could run engines, refrigerators (12/05/2018)
A
solid can serve as a medium for heat and sound wave interactions just like a
fluid does for thermoacoustic engines and refrigerators -- resulting in
leak-free machines that can stay operating longer.
Neglected atom has top properties for atomic clocks (12/05/2018)
Like
watchmakers choosing superior materials to build a fine timepiece, physicists
have singled out an atom that could allow us to build better atomic clocks.
New tool analyzes disease and drug effects with unprecedented accuracy and consistency (11/05/2018)
A
new protein analysis tool developed at the University at Buffalo could vastly
increase the speed and precision with which disease and drug effects are
analyzed.
Bright future for solar cell technology (05/05/2018)
Harnessing
energy from the sun, which emits immensely powerful energy from the center of
the solar system, is one of the key targets for achieving a sustainable energy
supply.
Ultrafast laser pulse created by golden nanoparticles (05/05/2018)
New
study shows that organic dye material combined with metallic nanostructures can
provide ultrafast lasing dynamics with short and rapidly appearing laser
pulses.
Engineers invent smart microchip that can self-start and operate when battery runs out (05/05/2018)
BATLESS,
a smart microchip, can self-start and continue to operate even when the battery
runs out of energy. This novel technology could enable smaller and cheaper
Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Levitating water droplets with sound waves to improve contaminant detection (05/05/2018)
Researchers showed that using sound waves to levitate droplets of water in midair can improve the detection of harmful heavy metal contaminants such as lead and mercury in water.
Laser frequency combs may be the future of Wi-Fi (02/05/2018)
Wi-Fi
and cellular data traffic are increasing exponentially but, unless the capacity
of wireless links can be increased, all that traffic is bound to lead to
unacceptable bottlenecks.
The digital transformation of news media and the rise of online disinformation (29/04/2018)
On
26 April 2018 the European Commission took steps to tackle the spread and
impact of online disinformation in Europe and ensure the protection of European
values and democracies.
