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- Functional nanomaterials to advance vehicle battery tech
- 3-D printing incorporates quasicrystals for stronger manufacturing products
- Testing of filters to contain radioactive materials
- Projecting a robot's intentions: New spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots' minds
- Upgrading infrastructure could reduce flood damage
- First observation of electronic structure in Ag-Rh alloy nanoparticles having hydrogen absorbing/storage property
| Functional nanomaterials to advance vehicle battery tech Posted: 30 Oct 2014 07:05 AM PDT Toyota scientists will collaborate with Brookhaven Lab experts and use world-leading electron microscopes to explore the real-time electrochemical reactions in promising new batteries. |
| 3-D printing incorporates quasicrystals for stronger manufacturing products Posted: 30 Oct 2014 07:03 AM PDT Researchers say that quasicrystals, a type of complex metal alloy with crystal-like properties, can be useful in the design of new composite materials. |
| Testing of filters to contain radioactive materials Posted: 29 Oct 2014 05:39 PM PDT If released in significant quantities, radioactive materials pose a potential threat to people and the environment. Now, new research is helping the nuclear industry ensure that radioactive materials continue to be safely contained and that standards of safety are continuously improved. |
| Projecting a robot's intentions: New spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots' minds Posted: 29 Oct 2014 09:45 AM PDT In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind. Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who's pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is, then choose the optimal route to avoid a close encounter. As the robot considers its options, its "thoughts" are projected on the ground: A large pink dot appears to follow the pedestrian — a symbol of the robot's perception of the pedestrian's position in space. |
| Upgrading infrastructure could reduce flood damage Posted: 29 Oct 2014 06:54 AM PDT The severe flooding that devastated a wide swath of Colorado last year might have been less destructive if the bridges, roads and other infrastructure had been upgraded or modernized, according to a new study. |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2014 07:11 AM PDT Chemists have made the first observation of the electronic structure in silver-rhodium (Ag-Rh) alloy nanoparticles to investigate why the alloy possesses a hydrogen absorbing/storage property like palladium (Pd) does, given that bulk Ag and Rh do not form an alloy, and that neither element alone is a hydrogen absorbing/storage metal. It is expected that these results will further promote the creation of novel functional materials through the fusion of different elements, a technique likened to 'modern-day alchemy.' |
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