Spraying plants with fertilizers and pesticides is typically a highly lossy affair — as little as 1% of the substances currently used in industrial and food production farming is actually taken up by the plant,
Small batteries were used to study the spontaneous formation of nanoscale hollow structures. An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals -- the spontaneous formation of hollow structures -- could help give the next generation of lithium ion batteries higher energy density without reducing battery lifetime.
A technological advancement that may prove crucial in the long-term success of dental implants has been developed by University of Queensland researchers.
University of Washington researchers used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor material — labeled here as “cantilever” — by at least 20 degrees C,
PC-MEMS (short for printed circuit microelectromechanical systems) is a fabrication process in which the robot's components are etched into a 2D sheet and then popped out in its 3D structure. To build HAMR-JR, the researchers simply shrunk the 2D sheet design of the robot -- along with the actuators and onboard circuitry -- to recreate a ...
