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Tech Xplore / 'One-pot' technique creates inorganic and polymer battery electrolytes simultaneously
Creating battery electrolytes—the component that carries the charged particles back and forth between a battery's two terminals—has always been a tradeoff.
Tech Xplore / Engineers take apart batteries from Tesla and China's leading EV manufacturer to see what's inside
Two main manufacturers dominate the EV (electric vehicle) market: Tesla, which is most popular in Europe and North America, and BYD, which leads the Chinese EV market. However, both manufacturers have released limited data ...
Tech Xplore / Perovskite solar cells reach new efficiency heights with novel additive
A small team of optical and solar cell specialists and electrical engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, and one in France, has found that adding pyrrodiazole to formamidinium iodide perovskite films can ...
Tech Xplore / The future of batteries is in your closet: Scientists show nylon can improve lithium battery performance
In two new studies published in ACS Energy Letters and Energy & Environmental Science, scientists in Saudi Arabia have made a breakthrough that could increase the power and lower the cost of lithium-metal batteries by incorporating ...
Tech Xplore / Hydrogen sensor that could pave the way for safer, cleaner energy
Scientists have developed a hydrogen sensor that could accelerate the transition to clean hydrogen energy. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, hydrogen is considered a key player to the transition to cleaner ...
Tech Xplore / Tiny 'rhinoceros beetle' robot does micro-scale manipulation in extreme conditions
Engineers have designed a tiny, low-weight and cordless robot that can act independently and with ultra-high precision in all directions in some of the most extreme conditions. The robot, which the designers call "Holonomic ...
Tech Xplore / Innovative biorobotic arm uses artificial muscles to combat tremors, paving way for wearable solutions
It is estimated that about 80 million people worldwide live with a tremor. For example, those who live with Parkinson's disease. The involuntary periodic movements sometimes strongly affect how patients are able to perform ...
Tech Xplore / New AI defense method shields models from adversarial attacks
Neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence modeled on the connectivity of the human brain, are driving critical breakthroughs across a wide range of scientific domains. But these models face significant threat from ...
Tech Xplore / A 30-foot-long glass bridge blends ancient wisdom with cutting-edge design
With more than 500 bridges crisscrossing the city of Philadelphia, they are an integral part of daily life. In a city defined by its rivers, bridges make possible the connections between people.
Tech Xplore / When outplayed, AI models resort to cheating to win chess matches
A team of AI researchers at Palisade Research has found that several leading AI models will resort to cheating at chess to win when playing against a superior opponent. They have published a paper on the arXiv preprint server ...
Tech Xplore / Lightening the load of augmented reality glasses
An international team of scientists developed augmented reality glasses with technology to receive images beamed from a projector, to resolve some of the existing limitations of such glasses, such as their weight and bulk. ...
Tech Xplore / New highly performing Ni-rich cathode active materials for all-solid-state batteries
To support the further advancement of the electronics industry, energy researchers have been trying to develop new battery technologies that could be charged faster, power devices for a greater amount of time and have longer ...