Around the globe, billions of pounds of agricultural waste are generated every year. Scientists at the U.S. Naval
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We’re increasingly dependent upon our batteries, so finding ways of building ones with enhanced lifetimes would make a lot of people happy. Research on batteries has ranged from trying new materials to changing the configuration of key components. Now, researchers have managed to restructure the materials in a nano-battery, then bundle lots of these individual batteries into a larger device.
Batteries rely on two electrodes to create separate currents of electrons and ions, generating electricity. Nanostructured electrodes have useful properties, such as large surface area and short ion transport time, which enables a high storage capacity and enhanced lifetimes—these batteries hold charge longer and can undergo more charge-discharge cycles. 3-D connectivity and organization of nanostructured electrodes could further improve these devices.
Previously, researchers had developed 3-D nanostructured batteries by placing two electrodes within a nanopore (made of anodic aluminum oxide) and using ultrathin electrical insulating material to separate them. While this system had improved power and energy density, use of such thin electrical insulators limits charge retention and requires complex circuits to shift current between them—it's difficult to retain the benefits of the 3-D nano-architecture due to spatial constraints of the material.
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Today the collaboration for the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of two new
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IdeaSquare, inaugurated today, creatively uses repurposed shipping containers for office space (Image: Jean-Claude Gadmer)
Today, the IdeaSquare building is being officially inaugurated allowing CERN council to visit for the first time. IdeaSquare is the name of a project designed to nurture innovation at CERN. “The scope of the project is to bring together researchers, engineers, people from industry and young students and encourage them to come up with new ideas that are useful for society, inspired by CERN’s ongoing detector R&D and upgrade projects,” says Markus Nordberg who, together with Marzio Nessi, set up IdeaSquare within CERN’s Development and Innovation Unit.
In addition to pursuing its core mission, IdeaSquare has already attracted two EU-funded projects – EDUSAFE and TALENT – and has hosted two Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) courses and one hackathon, among other events. “Projects can find office space and a ready-to-use technical infrastructure here. They can also take advantage of the great networking and idea-sharing opportunities,” says Nordberg. The building, once an old storage space, has been completely refurbished and creatively uses repurposed shipping containers and a bus for office space and a meeting room.
The only requirement needed to take part in the IdeaSquare programme is to have an idea worth nurturing – that is, an idea that combines innovation with usefulness in particle physics and for society. “At IdeaSquare, we agree to support projects only after consulting with all the parties involved, including, of course, the CERN Management and experiments,” says Nordberg.
Today’s event includes an announcement about the release of a unique piece of software. The underlying code is from augmented reality software, which is based on technology used in detectors at CERN. The project is a collaboration between CERN and the Italian university UNIMORE and will be used by the researchers to help with autism studies.
UT’s College of Engineering has made recent headlines for discoveries that, while atomically small, could impact our modern
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