Nearly Hard as Steel: Aluminum with Fullerenes
Russian researchers with Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) are using special carbon nanoparticles to optimize materials. They are adding fullerenes —soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60...
Hybrid batteries to last forever
A lighter, greener, cheaper, longer-lasting battery. Who wouldn’t want that?
Researchers at Michigan Technological University are working on it. Actually, their design is a twist...
Converting the energy of waste heat occurring in integrated circuits
The heat which occurs in tiny computer processors might soon be no longer useless or even a problem. On the contrary: It could be...