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Tech Xplore / Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Whether you are a new employee, a gymnast, or a bendy straw manufacturer, one trait is ideal across the board: flexibility.
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop sensors that operate at high temperatures and in extreme environments
Extreme environments in several critical industries—aerospace, energy, transportation and defense—require sensors to measure and monitor numerous factors under harsh conditions to ensure human safety and integrity of ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop solvent-free process to make better, cheaper lithium-ion battery electrodes
A team led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Yan Wang has developed a solvent-free process to manufacture lithium-ion battery electrodes that are greener, cheaper, and charge faster than electrodes currently ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers propose replacing construction sand with shredded disposable diapers
Up to 8% of the sand in concrete and mortar used to make a single-story house could be replaced with shredded used disposable diapers without significantly diminishing their strength, according to a study published in Scientific ...
Tech Xplore / Improving dopant-free polymeric hole transport materials for perovskite quantum dot solar cells
Solar cells are considered to be an environmentally friendly source of power generation that can effectively reduce the impact of pollution on the environment. In particular, perovskite quantum dot solar cells have drawn ...
Tech Xplore / A programmable surface plasmonic neural network to detect and process microwaves
AI tools based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) are being introduced in a growing number of settings, helping humans to tackle many problems faster and more efficiently. While most of these algorithms run on conventional ...
Tech Xplore / An electric vehicle battery for all seasons
Many owners of electric vehicles worry about how effective their battery will be in very cold weather. Now a new battery chemistry may have solved that problem.
Tech Xplore / Additively manufacturing soft robots could reduce waste, increase performance
Soft robotics have several key advantages over rigid counterparts, including their inherent safety features—soft materials with motions powered by inflating and deflating air chambers can safely be used in fragile environments ...
Tech Xplore / Growing sustainable everyday products using mushrooms
Researchers from The University of Sydney have developed a biological growing process that uses mushrooms to turn organic waste into compostable products as a low-cost, sustainable solution to plastics.
Tech Xplore / AI matches human performance at developing good test questions
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate online course assessment questions that instructors found indistinguishable from questions written by humans.
Tech Xplore / Writing with AI help can shift your opinions
Artificial intelligence-powered writing assistants that autocomplete sentences or offer "smart replies" not only put words into people's mouths, they also put ideas into their heads, according to new research.
Tech Xplore / Researchers find flaws in using source reputation for training automatic misinformation detection algorithms
Researchers at Rutgers University have found a major flaw in the way that algorithms designed to detect "fake news" evaluate the credibility of online news stories.