Solar material can “self-heal” imperfections
27.01.2021 | University of York | www.york.ac.uk
A material that can be used in technologies such as solar power has been found to self-heal, a new study shows.
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Štítek "Engineering"
New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin
02.09.2020 | RMIT University | www.rmit.edu.au
Researchers have developed electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin, opening the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts.…
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Algorithm quickly simulates a roll of loaded dice
01.06.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu
The fast and efficient generation of random numbers has long been an important challenge. For centuries, games of chance have relied on the roll of a die, the flip of a coin, or the shuffling of…
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Theoretical tubulanes inspire ultrahard polymers
14.11.2019 | Rice University | www.rice.edu
Researchers at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering and their colleagues are testing polymers based on tubulanes, theoretical structures of crosslinked carbon nanotubes predicted to have…
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MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date
13.09.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu
MIT engineers report today that they have cooked up a material that is 10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported. The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes,…
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Russia launches a new space telescope
15.07.2019 | Phys.org | www.phys.org
Russia launched a space telescope Spektr-R from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in a joint mission with Germany intended to map X-rays across the sky and replace a project lost in January.
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Sheaths Become Mighty New Layer in Research Team’s Artificial Muscles
12.07.2019 | University of Texas in Dallas | www.utdallas.edu
Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have invented several types of strong, powerful artificial muscles using materials ranging…
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Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors
05.07.2019 | University of Chicago | www.uchicago.edu
Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the allowed orbits of its electrons. That fingerprint enables…
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Wearable Cooling and Heating Patch Could Serve as Personal Thermostat and Save Energy
20.05.2019 | University of California San Diego | ucsd.edu
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable patch that could provide personalized cooling and heating at home, work, or on the go.
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UBC researchers create washable sensor that can be woven into materials
17.05.2019 | University of British Columbia | www.ubc.ca
Researchers at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering have developed a low-cost sensor that can be interlaced into textiles and composite materials. While the research is still new, the sensor may pave…
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