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Vote for the University Research Readers’ Choice award – Elektras 2024

Alun Williams — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:39:32 +0000

We are asking readers of Electronics Weekly to choose the winner of the University Research Project of the Year in this year’s Elektra Awards. The award is kindly sponsored by ...

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Battery can be used as physical structure

Steve Bush — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:40:16 +0000

Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has revealed its third generation of structural lithium ion battery. “We have created a battery made of carbon fibre composite that is as stiff ...

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Electro-hydraulic actuators make a nimble leg

Steve Bush — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:01:56 +0000

Electro-hydraulic muscles are sometimes a viable alternative to electric motors in robot legs, according to researchers at Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. This sort of electricity-to-movement transducer uses ...

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Air-stable organic flow batteries

Steve Bush — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:31:47 +0000

Researchers at the Chinese Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have produced stable organic redox compounds for use in aqueous flow batteries. “Organic redox-active molecules [ORAMs] are abundant and diverse, offering ...

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Stretchy gel sensor measures biomarkers on dry skin

Steve Bush — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:15:54 +0000

Health-related chemicals can be detected on dry skin, according to the National University of Singapore (NUS), which developed a stretchable ‘ionic-electronic bilayer hydrogel’ sensor with the Singapore Agency for Science, ...

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Another glimpse behind the superconductivity curtain

Steve Bush — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:43:16 +0000

Emerging electron pairs in an insulator hint of a hidden mechanism that could be exploited for designer ‘high-temperature’ superconductors. Superconductors need electrons to pair, and then many pairs to become ...

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Modern twist on clockwork stores more energy

Steve Bush — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:36:37 +0000

Forget exploiting carbon nanotubes electrochemically, and just wind them up like clockwork if you want to store energy. This is not quite the message that researchers at the University of ...

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Switch to scandium for high temperature ferroelectrics

Steve Bush — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:53:58 +0000

Tokyo Tech has picked aluminium scandium nitride (AlScN) to make ferroelectric films that remain stable at up to 600°C in hydrogen. “This high stability makes them ideal for high-temperature manufacturing ...

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Just what are microbial sensors capable of?

Steve Bush — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:16:29 +0000

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has teamed up with Massachusetts-based Draper to streamline the design of microbe-based electronic sensors. “Microbes have the potential to be developed as biological ...

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300mm silicon-based quantum dot spin qubits

Steve Bush — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:33:56 +0000

Imec has used 300mm wafers to demonstrate silicon-based quantum dot spin qubit processing. The devices had an average charge noise of 0.6µeV/√Hz at 1Hz. “In view of noise performance, the ...

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