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Lithium metal batteries that perform well at low temperatures

29.07.2020 | Tech Xplore | www.techxplore.com

Lithium (Li) batteries, or lithium metal batteries, use metallic lithium as an anode. Over the past few decades, rechargeable Li batteries have been used to power a wide variety of electronic devices…

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Lithium metal batteries that perform well at low temperatures

Lego-inspired bone and soft tissue repair with tiny, 3D-printed bricks

27.07.2020 | Oregon Health & Science University | www.ohsu.edu

Inspired by Lego blocks, these small 3-D printed hollow bricks serve as scaffolding onto which both hard and soft tissue can regrow better than today’s standard regeneration methods, according to new…

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Lego-inspired bone and soft tissue repair with tiny, 3D-printed bricks

Chemists make tough plastics recyclable

22.07.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu

Thermosets, which include epoxies, polyurethanes, and rubber used for tires, are found in many products that have to be durable and heat-resistant, such as cars or electrical appliances. One drawback…

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Portable DNA device can detect tree pests in under two hours

20.07.2020 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

Asian gypsy moths feed on a wide range of important plants and trees. White pine blister rust can kill young trees in only a couple of years. But it's not always easy to detect the presence of these…

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Portable DNA device can detect tree pests in under two hours

3-D printed batteries handle the squeeze

17.07.2020 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

While flexible and stretchable electronics technologies have progressed in leaps and bounds over the past 10 years, batteries to power them have some catching up to do. Researchers in Singapore and…

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3-D printed batteries handle the squeeze

Engineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask

10.07.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu

Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they believe could stop viral particles as effectively as N95 masks. Unlike N95 masks, the new masks were…

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Engineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask

Bio-Ink for 3-D Printing Inside the Body

08.07.2020 | IEEE Spectrum | spectrum.ieee.org

Right now, almost 70,000 people in the United States alone are on active waiting lists for organ donations. The dream of bio-printing is that one day, instead of waiting for a donor, a patient could…

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Bio-Ink for 3-D Printing Inside the Body

New breakthrough in ‘spintronics’ could boost high speed data technology

06.07.2020 | University of Exeter | www.exeter.ac.uk

Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in the important, emerging field of spintronics – which could lead to a new high speed energy efficient data technology.

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New breakthrough in ‘spintronics’ could boost high speed data technology

Facebook’s newest proof-of-concept VR headset

03.07.2020 | The Verge | www.theverge.com

Facebook has shown off a new proof-of-concept virtual reality headset, and it has a completely different design than most other VR devices on the market today. Instead of a bulky contraption that…

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Facebook’s newest proof-of-concept VR headset

New Hardware Mimics Spiking Behavior of Neurons With High Efficiency

01.07.2020 | IEEE Spectrum | spectrum.ieee.org

Nothing computes more efficiently than a brain, which is why scientists are working hard to create artificial neural networks that mimic the organ as closely as possible. Conventional approaches use…

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