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    Movie technology inspires Wearable Liquid unit that aims to Harvest Energy

    March 12, 2019, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    A Purdue University team created wearable technology to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. (Image provided)

    Technology designed to advance self-powering devices such as consumer electronics and defense innovations. A fascination with movie technology that showed robots perform self-repair through a liquid formula inspired a Purdue University professor to make his own discoveries – which are now helping to lead the way for advancements in self-powering devices such as consumer electronics and defense innovations.

    The Purdue team, led by Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, has created wearable technology to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.
    “Our work presents an important step toward the practical...

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    Scientists Demonstrate use of Ultrasound to Alter Inflammatory and Metabolic Response

    March 12, 2019, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Fig. 1
    Modulation of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway through the vagus nerve, splenic nerve and spleen. a Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve or US stimulation of the spleen is thought to modulate the neural communication with T Cells and Macrophages, blocking the production of inflammatory cytokines and promoting an anti-inflammatory state. bTimeline of a typical experiment performed in the presented study in which animals were injected with 300 μl of K/BxN serum on day 0 and treated with focused US that targeted the spleen on days -1 through 6

    GE Research and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research bioelectronic medicine teams have demonstrated potentially breakthrough non-invasive methods to regulate dysfunction in the body’s metabolic or inflammatory control systems ...

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    Novel Technology aims to Improve Lithium Metal Battery Life, Safety

    March 11, 2019, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics


    A reactive polymer composite, picturing the electrochemical interface between lithium metal anode and electrolyte is stabilized by the use of a reactive polymer composite, enabling high-performance rechargeable lithium metal batteries.
    Credit: Donghai Wang

    Rechargeable lithium metal batteries with increased energy density, performance, and safety may be possible with a newly-developed, solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI), according to Penn State researchers. As the demand for higher-energy-density lithium metal batteries increases – for electric vehicles, smartphones, and drones – stability of the SEI has been a critical issue halting their advancement because a salt layer on the surface of the battery’s lithium electrode insulates it and conducts lithium ions.

    “This layer is very i...

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    Massive Twin Star discovered Snuggling Close to its Stellar Sibling

    March 11, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    2MASS observations (background image) revealed a highly reddened source back in 2003 indicating the massive young nature of PDS 27. PIONIER on VLTI provides 2,000 times higher angular resolution making it possible to resolve PDS 27 as a binary system for the first time in 2019.
    Credit: Evgenia Koumpia, University of Leeds

    Astronomers have discovered a binary star system with the closest high-mass young stellar objects ever measured, providing a valuable “laboratory” to test theories on high mass binary star formation.

    An international team led by the University of Leeds has determined the distance between the massive young star PDS 27 and its orbiting stellar companion to be just 30 astronomical units away or 4.5 billion km...

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