The New Smart Concrete

August 21, 2023 0

The University of Pittsburgh has a new concept for the development of smart civil infrastructure systems with the introduction of metamaterial concrete. The metamaterial concrete would be lightweight and mechanically-tunable, with integrated energy harvesting and Read More

Brewers Grain Turned Energy Storage!

August 18, 2023 0

A team from Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany are working with partners from Spain to test brewer’s spent grain as a bio-source for the production of materials for electrochemical energy storage systems. They were Read More

Improved Dispensing of Food-Grade Gels

August 17, 2023 0

DUE: September 14, 2023 ABSTRACT A Fortune 500 food company requires innovative technologies for dispensing a high viscosity liquid mixture into molds. The client is interested in all approaches that minimize or eliminate tailings. BACKGROUND Read More

New Camera Reads Volcano’s SO2 Emissions

August 16, 2023 0

Researchers at the University of Sheffield in England have developed an inexpensive and low-power camera for the long-term measuring of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from volcanoes. Monitoring volcanic gas emissions is critical as they can Read More

Sensors Help Prevent Food Waste

August 11, 2023 0

Researchers at Koç University in Turkey have created a “real-time” food spoilage alert sensor. Studies have shown that an estimated 240 million tons of meat is discarded globally each year, with much of this waste Read More

Germany Automates Making Soft Sensors

August 10, 2023 0

The Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed an automatic process for making soft sensors. These sensors function as universal measurement cells and can be Read More

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