Mar 31, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago are among a collaborative team that has developed a material that could give fuel cell systems a competitive edge over the battery systems that currently power most electric vehicles. In contrast to lithium batteries, fuel cell technology relies...
Physicists engineer ferroelectricity into well-known family of semiconductors
Mar 31, 2022 (Nanowerk News) MIT physicists and colleagues have engineered a new property into a well-known family of semiconductors by manipulating ultrathin sheets of the materials only a few atomic layers thick. The work is important because the new materials themselves could have interesting applications in computing and more....
Solving the challenges of robotic pizza-making
Mar 31, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Imagine a pizza maker working with a ball of dough. She might use a spatula to lift the dough onto a cutting board then use a rolling pin to flatten it into a circle. Easy, right? Not if this pizza maker is a robot. For...
Scientists bioprint tissue-like constructs capable of controlled, complex shape change
Mar 31, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Where standard 3D printing uses a digital blueprint to manufacture an object out of materials like plastic or resin, 3D bioprinting manufactures biological parts and tissues out of living cells, or bioinks. A fourth dimension — shape transformation over time — can be achieved by...