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Terbium: the Future of Energetics and Vehicles

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:13:20 +0000

The rare earth element terbium (Tb), a soft, silvery-gray metal, is a critical component for several next-generation technologies, playing an increasingly important role in both the energetics and vehicle industries.1 Known primarily for its intense green luminescence in displays and its magnetic properties, ter

Titanium, the resource of the future.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:56:42 +0000

Titanium is an extreme metal ideal for aerospace engineering and medical implants.
Its strength comes from its natural ability to resist corrosion and oxidation, meaning that it retains its power even when exposed to extreme temperatures or harsh chemicals.
While it's the ninth most abun

Waste plastic and glass

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:31:50 +0000

Are You ready to start new bussiness?

Glass is endlessly recyclable, back to its original use. It never loses its quality and purity, no matter how many times it’s recycled…. but is it actually being recycled?

Most glass isn’t actually recycled. In fact, only 33 percent of waste glass is

Floating Solar Plants

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:31:45 +0000

The most powerful floating solar PV plant in Europe was inaugurated in southern France on Friday (18 October), marking another milestone in the development of solar energy.

Global floating solar demand is expected to grow by an average of 22 percent year-over-year from 2019 through 2024.

Main reasons for this development:

Nanotechnology To Outer Space: Ten Top Tech Innovations Of 2014

Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:45:58 +0000

Don’t be mesmerised by cool apps and flashy new gizmos – the top technology inventions of the year are ones that will have a lasting effect.

Most are advances in fields that are already changing us. Some will have immediate impact; others are portents of transformations that may take decades to complete. In this vein, and in no particular order, here are what I consider to be ten of the best technological innovations from 2014.

1. DNA nanobots

Design Novel Fuzzy Logic Controller of IPMSM(interior permanent magnet synchronous motor) for Electric Vehicles

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:50:45 +0000

University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 43074, Hubei Province, China

The permanent magnets of the interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) are buried in the rotor core.
Due to this kind of geometry, IPMSM has a robust mechanical structure, a low effective air gap, and a rotor saliency. These features allow the IPMSM could run&nbs

New Finger Device Reads Books To The Blind

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:56:11 +0000

Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have developed a device shaped like a giant ring that can read to people who are visually impaired. They call this 3-D printed prototype, FingerReader.

After slipping the device on, the user just runs an index finger below

The Invisible Beauty of Wireless Networks

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:30:44 +0000

Humans can only see a small patch of the electromagnetic spectrum – a mere 310nm range. Other animals can see into the ultraviolet and infrared, but none can see the wavelengths used for wireless networks. Imagine if we could. Luis Hernan has given

New Type Of Computer Capable Of Calculating 640TBs Of Data In One Billionth Of A Second, Could Revolutionize Computing

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 06:56:14 +0000

Let me introduce The Machine- HP’s latest invention that could revolutionize the computing world. According to HP, The Machine is not a server, workstation, PC, device or phone but an amalgamation of all these things. It’s designed to be able to cope with the masse

Sound, Water and Camera Make A Zigzag of Awesome

Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:50:04 +0000

Want to make water flow in a zig zag so it seems like the drops are suspended in space? How about looking like the water if flowing upwards? It turns out you can do it with common home equipment, although sadly it only really works on camera, or with a strobe.

"Green" Jet Fuel From Sunlight Developed

Mon, 19 May 2014 03:42:14 +0000

A consortium of research institutions and corporations have announced a solution to one of the major obstacles to a sustainable world, carbon neutral fuel for airplanes. Also fire twirling.

While political obstacles may intervene, we now h

Charge Gadgets Just By Walking

Fri, 09 May 2014 04:56:56 +0000

How much oomph is in your stride? Each step you take releases enough energy to light up a bulb, and rather than let it go to waste, SolePower stores the energy as usable electrical power

Developed by Matt Stanton and Hahna Alexander when they were students at

Google Seeks to Integrate Cameras Into Contact Lenses

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:52:47 +0000

Google announced in January that it was developing a smart contact lens that could continually monitor blood glucose levels of Type 2 diabetics. It has been announced that Google is also working to create a contact lens with an integrated camera that would help people w

Future Directions in Germanium BiCMOS

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:16:05 +0000

The broadband data boom and associated evolving telecommunication standards are calling for high-performing devices with ever increasing circuit complexity. New high data-rate services are driving the use of higher operating frequencies on optical and wireless systems, while requiring greater chip integration, reduced power consumption and optimized costs.

New Microwave applications such as Automotive Radars (24/77GHz), Satellite Communications, LAN RF transceivers (60GHz)

Quantum Dot Technology Could Lead To Solar Panel Windows

Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:13:29 +0000

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Milano-Bicocca have designed and synthesized a new generation of quantum dots for use in solar energy systems that overcome previous inefficiencies in harvesting sunlight. The study has been published in the jour

Cheap solar power.Graphene and Perovskite

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 16:26:16 +0000

Researchers are looking at new materials to improve photovoltaic cells, but one of the most promising of them wasn’t concocted in a lab from exotic nanoparticles, or meticulously designed on the molecular scale — it’s a rock. Well, a particular kind of mineral, but it’s been known about for over 150 years.

The key to making perovskite solar technology workable is how cheap it is — really, it’s dirt cheap. Perovskite deposits are found al

Methods to boost the performance of any solar cell

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 16:16:36 +0000

Solar energy and reflectors

The power of energy from the sun is not the same everywhere. Solar power is measured in watts per square meter. Full sun in the southwest is 100 watts /m2. When the sun is low in the sky it has to pass through lots of atmosphere. Sunlight in Alaska in October is 25 watt m2. It also makes a