New Technology

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  How a slender, snake-like robot could give doctors new ways to save lives

  Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimeters in diameter, for use in surgery [...]

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  An ultrafast and highly performing nonlinear splitter based on lithium niobate

  Optics, technologies that leverage the behavior and properties of light, are the basis of many existing technological tools, most notably fiber communication systems that enable long- and short-distance high-speed communication between devices. Optical signals have [...]

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  Eco-friendly solar cells improve power generation efficiency by resolving defects

  The DGIST Thin Film Solar Cell Research Center worked with Professor Kim Se-yoon of the Department of New Material Engineering at Kyungnam University to investigate the cause of pore formation, a problem in CZTS thin-film [...]

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  Researchers develop new faster charging hydrogen fuel cell

  Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have developed a new method to improve solid-state hydrogen fuel cell charging times.This article was originally published on this website.

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  India to miss renewable energy goal, officials, experts say

  India will miss its renewable energy target for the end of the year, with experts saying “multiple challenges” including a lack of financial help and taxes on imported components are stalling the clean energy industry.This [...]

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  Marrying models with experiments to build more efficient solar cells

  In a single day, enough sunlight strikes Earth to power the world for an entire year—that is, if we can find a way to capture that energy cheaply and efficiently. While the cost of solar [...]

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  Perovskite material with superlattice structure might surpass efficiency of a 'perfect' solar cell

  A perovskite solar cell developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego brings researchers closer to breaking the ceiling on solar cell efficiency, suggests a study published Aug. 10 in Nature.This article was [...]

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  Researchers use multicomponent alloys to make strong and ductile soft magnetic materials

  Soft magnetic materials (SMMs) applied in electric engines transform energy from sustainable resources into electricity. Conventional SMMs, which are currently used in industry, are prone to damage under severe mechanical loads. Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institut [...]