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Tech Xplore / Electronic ink enables room-temperature printing of circuits capable of switching between rigid and soft modes
Variable-stiffness electronics are at the forefront of adaptive technology, offering the ability for a single device to transition between rigid and soft modes depending on its use case. Gallium, a metal known for its high ...
Tech Xplore / 3D-printing resin forms both permanent objects and dissolvable supports
One-pot recipes make preparing meals quick and easy. And one-pot 3D-printing could do the same for additive manufacturing.
Tech Xplore / Light-guided 3D printing method creates recyclable supports for complex designs
Hearing aids, mouth guards, dental implants, and other highly tailored structures are often products of 3D printing. These structures are typically made via vat photopolymerization—a form of 3D printing that uses patterns ...
Tech Xplore / Scalable method creates self-healing, stretchable transistors and circuits
Recent technological advances have enabled the development of a wide range of increasingly sophisticated wearable and implantable devices, which can be used to monitor physiological signals or intervene with high precision ...
Tech Xplore / Privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex discovered
An international research collaboration has recently uncovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and the Russian tech giant Yandex. They found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex ...
Tech Xplore / Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable
Hydrogen has the potential to be a climate-friendly fuel since it doesn't release carbon dioxide when used as an energy source. Currently, however, most methods for producing hydrogen involve fossil fuels, making hydrogen ...
Tech Xplore / Enhanced efficiency in tin-based perovskite solar cells: Optimizing the electron transport layer
Perovskite solar cells are gaining attention as the next generation of solar technology due to their high efficiency, flexibility, and potential for printing. Although lead-based perovskite has been used in high-efficiency ...
Tech Xplore / Self-healing circuit boards offer new path to reducing global e-waste
Between upgrades and breakdowns to cellphones, tablets, laptops, and appliances, so many electronics are getting tossed in the trash that they've taken on a name of their own: e-waste.
Tech Xplore / Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do
When you're trying to communicate or understand ideas, words don't always do the trick. Sometimes the more efficient approach is to do a simple sketch of that concept—for example, diagramming a circuit might help make sense ...
Tech Xplore / AI stirs up the optimal recipe for sustainable concrete
For weeks, the whiteboard in the lab was crowded with scribbles, diagrams, and chemical formulas. A research team across the Olivetti Group and the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) was working intensely on a key problem: ...
Tech Xplore / Green hydrogen from Africa much more costly than previously assumed
To meet Europe's demand for green hydrogen, governments and the private sector have high hopes for production in Africa. A study led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and published in Nature Energy has now shown ...
Tech Xplore / Intelligent sensors cut energy use by enabling more efficient decision-making
Your home's thermostat relies on a sensor to determine when to switch the heat or air conditioning on or off. These wireless sensors are at the core of the so-called "Internet of Things," enabling smart devices to collect ...
