Soft robotics researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a new type of robotic actuator – or “artificial muscle” – that mimics life-like movements. Notably, the actuator is composed of eco-friendly materials. “You Read More
A team led by Mario Caironi, coordinator of the Printed and Molecular Electronics Laboratory at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, has developed the world’s first rechargeable edible battery, which has great potential for use in Read More
A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been working on a new fabrication technique for fully foldable robots that can perform a variety of complex tasks without relying Read More
Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an insoluble cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) hydrogel with high sensitivity to calcium ions. This could be an important breakthrough Read More
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
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
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
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
Researchers from Nagoya University’s Graduate School of Engineering have developed a method to create anti-counterfeiting QR codes using micrometer-sized spherical cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs). The team developed a method for processing CLCs into micrometer-sized spherical Read More
Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have developed a novel recycling method that can recover up to 70% of lithium from battery waste. Their technique does not use corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, Read More
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