Industrial Engineering/Chemistry

New quantity helps experimentally classify dimensionality of thermoelectric materialsCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have shown that a quantity known as…

Credit: Hexa-X The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is participating in the development of the European Hexa-X project, through the Network Technologies research group and coordinated by Nokia, to promote the development of…

High index surface-exposed and composition-graded [email protected]@Pt nanodendrites for high-performance oxygen reductionCredit: Chinese Journal of Catalysis Alloying is a general and efficient strategy to boost the catalytic activity of Pt…

The radiator was developed using friction stir welding technologyCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) invented a durable and compact…

Newly clarified reactions point to novel applications for a long-studied lithium-rich battery materialCredit: Berkeley Lab An international team working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…

Nabil Nasr and Iris Rivero recognized for significant contributions in industrial engineeringCredit: RIT The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) has named two Rochester Institute of Technology engineering innovators…

Pulp mill waste hits the road instead of the landfillCredit: UBCO Waste materials from the pulp and paper industry have long been seen as possible fillers for building products like cement, but for years these materials have ended…

Credit: University of Oklahoma NORMAN, OKLA. - With just three minutes to present his research on 3D printed implants, University of Oklahoma graduate student Ali Rassi has risen to the occasion. Rassi, a master's student in…

Texas A&M researchers are developing a reliability framework to help utility companies better prepare for uncertainties that may arise. Imagine the process of distributing electricity to homes from the power grid is like travelers…

Program to help startups bring their innovations to the marketplace The University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Chicago Quantum Exchange today announced the launch of Duality, the first accelerator…

By binding specific ions in specially designed cages within its pores, a new membrane could enable more efficient flows in energy storage devicesCredit: Artem Baskin/Berkeley Lab Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass…

Moreover, it is safer in terms of potential fire hazards and has a lower environmental impactCredit: Anatoliy A. Vereshchagin It is difficult to imagine our daily life without lithium-ion batteries. They dominate the small…

Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a unique low-cost dynamically-controlled surface for 3D printers that reduces waste and saves timeCredit: Yong Chen 3-D printing has the potential to revolutionize product…

Credit: ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy Manufacturing - Mighty Mo Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists proved molybdenum titanium carbide, a refractory metal alloy that can withstand extreme temperature environments, can also be crack…

Filling a crucial gap in the materials spectrumCredit: RMIT University A new study, out this week, could pave the way to revolutionary, transparent electronics. Such see-through devices could potentially be integrated in…

Credit: DICP Gasoline, the primary transportation fuel, contains hydrocarbons with 5-11 carbons (C5-11) and is almost derived from petroleum at present. Gasoline can also be produced from non-petroleum syngas. Nonetheless, achieving…

Integrated power grids offer benefits, but also pose challenges best addressed by leveraging differencesCredit: Matthew Henry The recent power outages in Texas brought attention to its power grid being separated from the rest of the…

2D materials combine, becoming polarized and giving rise to photovoltaic effectCredit: ©2021 Ideue et al. For the first time, researchers have discovered a way to obtain polarity and photovoltaic behavior from certain nonphotovoltaic,…

Light modulation via optical MEMS microshutter and micromirror arrays could provide huge energy savingsCredit: Hillmer et al. Buildings are responsible for 40 percent of primary energy consumption and 36 percent of total CO2…

Credit: ACS Nano (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10609 Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) have developed a method for modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure. The research will help…