Researchers from University of Illinois have developed a method to test stress and strain in battery electrodes in a move to further understand the mechanical, electrical and chemical forces within lithium-ion batteries.According to professor Nancy Sottos, the materials in a battery cell cannot truly expand and contract as they would when uncon...

Self-propelling liquid metals, developed by researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, are said to be a critical step towards flexible and reconfigurable soft circuit systems, such as 3D electronic displays and components. Potential applications range from smart engineering to biomedicine.As well as being malleable, any droplet of liquid...

A silicon-tin nanocomposite anode developed by researchers at the University of California Riverside (UCR) could lead to lithium-ion batteries that can be charged and discharged more times before they reach the end of their useful lives. Applications range from handheld electronic devices to electric vehicles.While graphite is the material of c...

Everspin Technologies has used the Flash Memory Summit to announce that it is shipping samples of the first memory to use perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) based ST-MRAM. The 256Mbit DDR3 compatible device is said to be the highest density perpendicular ST-MRAM available commercially.Joe O’Hare, director of marketing, claimed...

An environmentally-friendly battery that stores energy in a vitamin-created plastic has been developed by a team of chemists from University of Toronto. The battery uses Flavin from vitamin B2 as the cathode."When you take something made by nature that is already complex, you end up spending less time making new material.” said Dwigh...

Tektronix has launched the TBS2000, described as a next generation basic oscilloscope with the longest record length and largest display in its class. The introduction is said to bring access to expanded capabilities, including the ability to use a range of Tektronix probes, to budget constrained design engineers.Peter Bachmayr, technical marke...

Taking advantage of the company’s experience with silicon technology, IBM scientists have developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can separate biological particles at the nanoscale. This, says the team, could enable physicians to detect diseases such as cancer before symptoms appear.The team has already separated bioparticles of 20nm in dia...

North Wales based SmartKem has received patent allowance in China for its semiconductor material. The company’s truFLEX platform can be used for manufacturing flexible displays and electronics and China is seen as a key future market.Steve Kelly, SmartKem’s CEO, said: QSuccessful collaboration is crucial in helping China to become a...

An international team of researchers has used computer simulations to find how thin a slab of salt has to be for it to break up into graphene-like layers.Dr Pavel Sorokin, from Moscow’s Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, explained: “This work has already attracted our colleagues from Israel and Japan....

A team of European scientists has created a hand-held chemical sensor capable of instantaneous detection from a distance of 30m. Harnessing new photonics technology, the mid-IR sensor uses spectroscopic sensors that read the unique frequencies, or ‘signatures’, given off when liquids or gases interact with light.Capable of a detecti...