A team of scientists in South Korea has discovered a way to make all-solid-state batteries safer and more powerful using inexpensive materials. Instead of adding costly metals, they redesigned the battery’s internal structure to help lithium ions move faster. This simple structural tweak boosted performance by up to four times. The work points to cheaper, safer batteries for … [Read more...] about This simple design change could finally fix solid-state batteries
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Engineers create the world’s smallest programmable, autonomous robots
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots: microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months and cost just one US penny each. Barely visible to the naked eye, each robot measures about 200 x 300x 50 micrometres, … [Read more...] about Engineers create the world’s smallest programmable, autonomous robots
Large language models: a new frontier in reliability systems engineering
A team of researchers from Beihang University, Jiangsu University of Technology and the University of Alberta has cast new light on the integration of large language models (LLMs) with reliability systems engineering (RSE), revealing both the opportunities and challenges it presents. Reliability systems engineering is a sophisticated discipline that focuses on the entire … [Read more...] about Large language models: a new frontier in reliability systems engineering
Researchers develop new algorithms for efficient motorcycle design
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a set of innovative methods and algorithms that improve the performance and precision of vehicle design through topological optimisation, a mathematical technique that allows designs to be optimised by distributing materials efficiently. The results of the research, which the scientists have applied to the … [Read more...] about Researchers develop new algorithms for efficient motorcycle design
New cloaking device concept to shield sensitive tech from magnetic fields
A team of engineers at the University of Leicester has unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically ‘cloak’ sensitive components, making them invisible to detection. A magnetic cloak is a device that hides or shields an object from external magnetic fields by manipulating how they flow around an object so that they behave as if the object isn’t there. The … [Read more...] about New cloaking device concept to shield sensitive tech from magnetic fields