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Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Research yields eco-friendly way to separate, recycle refrigerants tied to climate crisis

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Lead author Abby Harders, who earned her doctorate in chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas, now serves as head of ...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Collection of tiny antennas can amplify and control light polarized in any direction

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New polarization-independent, highly resonant metasurfaces can precisely amplify and control light without requiring incoming light (top lef...

Engineers Design New Autonomous System to Monitor Arctic Ice Melt

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Photo Credit:  Bernd Hildebrandt The rapid melting and thinning of the Arctic ice have sparked serious concerns in the scientific community....
Monday, January 27, 2025

FAU Engineering Develops New Weapon against Harmful Algal Blooms

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Photo Credit:  Tom Fisk As harmful algal blooms (HABs) continue to spread across the globe, urgent research is needed to address this growin...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

One Step Coating Could Save Lives and Property

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Image Credit: Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering Communications Although extremely flammable, cotton is one of the most commonly used t...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Researchers find dialysis ‘astonishingly effective’ for treating wastewater

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Menachem Elimelech and Yuanmiaoliang “Selina” Chen. Photo Credit: Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University Researchers at Rice University, in collab...
Monday, April 8, 2024

MIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots

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MIT engineers have developed a new spring (shown in Petri dish) that maximizes the work of natural muscles. When living muscle tissue is att...

This 3D printer can figure out how to print with an unknown material

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Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically identify the parameters of an unknown material on its own. Photo Credit: Courtesy ...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

New machine to enhance understanding of nuclear weapons’ behavior

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Bob Webster, deputy Laboratory director for Weapons (far right); Mike Furlanetto, Scorpius Advanced Sources and Detection project director (...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Electrochemistry helps clean up electronic waste recycling, precious metal mining

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A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows how electrochemistry can be used to extract precious metals from discarde...

Novel electrochemical sensor detects dangerous bacteria

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By using a customized surface to bait the targeted pathogens, they separate by themselves from a mixture of many different bacteria. This ma...

New All-Liquid Iron Flow Battery for Grid Energy Storage

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Lead author and battery researcher Gabriel Nambafu assembles a test flow battery apparatus. Photo Credit:  Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest ...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

New reactor could save millions when making ingredients for plastics and rubber from natural gas

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Illustration Credit: Courtesy of University of Michigan / Department of Chemical Engineering A new way to make an important ingredient for p...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Bridge in a box: Unlocking origami’s power to produce load-bearing structures

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From left, Yi Zhu, a Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering, and Evgueni Filipov, an associate professor in both Civil and Environmental ...

Rice research could advance soft robotics manufacturing, design

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Te Faye Yap (left) and Daniel Preston Photo Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Soft robots use pliant materials such as elastomers to inter...

Sandia collaboration produces improved microneedle technology

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Adam Bolotsky demonstrates how Sandia National Laboratories, in collaboration with SRI, has enhanced the extraction of interstitial fluid. T...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

SwRI develops off-road autonomous driving tools focused on camera vision

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SwRI is exploring using stereo cameras, or stereovision, as an alternative to lidar sensors in automated vehicles. SwRI's stereovision a...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Nanosurgical tool could be key to cancer breakthrough

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Electron microscopy image of the nanopipette. Photo Credit: Dr Alexander Kulak A nanosurgical tool - about 500 times thinner than a human ha...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Completely recycled viscose for the first time

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Edvin Bågenholm-Ruuth Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lund University At present, viscose textiles are made of biomass from the forest, and there ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Possible ‘Trojan Horse’ found for treating stubborn bacterial infections

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Transmission electron microscope (TEM) image of the bacterial cell with an extracellular vesicle attached. Image Credit: Courtesy of Washing...