Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Centre have shown. The study, published in Nature Communications,…
Conceptual rendering of an ultrathin, electrically tunable metalens developed by Cornell and Samsung engineers. Credit: Daniil Shilkin Researchers from Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics and Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology have created a first-of-its-kind metalens…
Visualization of a lithium-rich cathode. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University and Northeastern University Batteries have come a long way since Volta first stacked copper and zinc discs together 200 years ago. While the technology has continued…
Schematic inner workings of the electrodes in a fuel cell, and the importance of key parameters. Credit:Heinz et al., 2021 Widespread adoption of hydrogen-powered vehicles over traditional electric vehicles requires fuel cells that can convert…
How a pair of MIT Sloan Executive Education alumni translated teachings from an MIT course to operations improvements at Heineken México. It’s no secret that a manufacturer’s ability to maintain and ideally increase production capability…
Jet packs, robot maids, and flying cars were all promises for the 21st century. We got mechanized, autonomous vacuum cleaners instead. Now a team of Penn State researchers are exploring the requirements for electric vertical…
Snapshot from MD simulation of graphene on liquid Cu. Credit: Santiago Cingolani. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have been using GCS HPC resources to develop more efficient methods for producing graphene at the…
Metallic microrobots (dark blue dots) colonize a jagged piece of microplastic under visible light, breaking down the plastic into smaller molecules. Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04559 Small pieces of…
The team that created the 2D-electrolytes was led by Prof Antonio Castro Neto (right), Director of CA2DM. With him is Ms Mariana Costa (left), the first author of the ground-breaking publication. Credit: National University of…
For senior Gabrielle Finear, experiential learning meant working on two startup ideas in the MIT Sandbox. Credit: Chheangkea Ieng For Gabrielle Finear, a senior studying computer science, working on two startup ideas in MIT Sandbox…
