Invention

Paper-folding art inspires better bandages

Adhesives like these bandages are very commonly used in our daily life, but when you try to attach them to places that encounter large,...

Edges and corners increase efficiency of catalytic converters

Catalytic converters for cleaning exhaust emission are more proficient when they utilize nanoparticles with numerous edges. This is one of the discoveries of an...

Utilizing solar energy to bring clean drinking water to remote areas

Utilizing solar energy and nanoparticles to make saltwater drinkable, scientists from Yale and Rice University have built up a framework that could conceivably be...

Reusing electric pylons to design the roof of a train station

For his Master’s project in civil engineering, Joseph Desruelle came up with a project to count and classify thousands of steel bars from dismantled...

New device, harvests water from desert air

Even in the aridest places on Earth, there is some moisture in the air, and a practical way to extract that moisture could be...

World’s first continuous room-temperature solid-state maser

Masers (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), the more established, microwave recurrence kin of the laser, was concocted in 1954. However not at...

Nanocrystalline graphite offers new class of harsh environment electronics

Small-scale and nanoelectromechanical transfers have adequately zero spillage current and can work at considerably higher temperatures and levels of radiation than strong state transistors....

EPFL scientists developed world’s first formic acid-based fuel cell

EPFL scientists along with GRT Group have developed the world's first coordinated power supply unit that can deliver power from formic corrosive, utilizing a power device...

Scientists developed new shuffling trick, to measure gene activity in single cells

A single cell can frame an agreeable piece of a tissue, or denounce any kind of authority and go up against an infected state,...

Scientists discovered a way to remove heavy metals from water

As per the World Health Organization right around 1 billion individuals don't approach clean drinking water, and that number is relied upon to increment...

Chemists use abundant, low-cost and non-toxic elements to create semiconductors

Semiconductors are everywhere. They’re on our computers and our cell phones. They’re usually in high-end, high-value products. While semiconductors may not contain rare materials,...

World-first graphene-based filter to improve the quality of drinking water

UNSW researchers have built up a world-first graphene-based, lab scale filter that can expel over 99% of the omnipresent regular natural matter abandoned amid...

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