It seems that each year has brought with it a major development in smartphone technology. Each year we get better cameras with more impressive low light performance; bigger, brighter displays with less bezel; CPUs and GPUs that leave the previous year’s benchmarks in the dust. Yet the one place where we have seen little improvement […]
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Self-repairing ceramic eyed for aircraft engines
Japanese researchers say they have developed a ceramic material that self-repairs cracks in just a minute and could drastically change manufacturing methods for the transportation industry. The team from the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Yokohama National University said the material could be used in plane engines to keep them operating even if […]
An efficient approach of conjugated tetraenes from butadiene and alkynes
Conjugated tetraenes are important key substructures in electronic materials, natural products and pharmaceutical molecules. However, they are difficult to synthesize. They are conventionally prepared by repetitions of the stoichiometric reactions using phosphorus reagents and subsequent reduction and partial oxidation. For making one C=C double bond, one needs to conduct 3 step reactions by this procedure. […]
Supercharged! Battery Power for the Future
What do smart phones, electric vehicles and solar panels have in common? They all demand more and more battery power to keep our homes, jobs and vehicles running. Lithium ion is still the “gold standard,” but researchers are looking at the entire periodic table for new combinations of elements that can conduct and store electrons […]
Li-Ion Battery Simulation Tool Predicts Cell and Pack Behavior With an Accuracy Better Than 5%
Sendyne Corp., a developer of sensing, modeling/simulation, and control products, announces the immediate availability of CellMod, the first lithium-ion battery simulation tool that can predict cell and pack behavior with an accuracy of better than 5 percent under a wide range of test conditions. The software includes Sendyne’s Pseudo-2D compact physics-based Li-ion battery cell model […]
Artificial photosynthesis: The two-in-one technology that could save the planet
Photosynthesis: fundamental mechanism for life on this planet, scourge of GCSE biology students, and now a potential way to fight climate change. Scientists are working hard to develop an artificial method that mimics how plants use sunlight to transform CO2 and water into something we can use as fuel. If it works, it’ll be a […]
