Page 25 - Advanced Functional News Today

California County Hopes Artificial Intelligence Can Mitigate Wildfire Risk At this time of year, periodic rain showers on the north coast of California give way to months of daily sunshine and a wildfire risk that grows in severity until the next fall rains arrive. In Sonoma County, a new set of eyes is watching over the forest. Those eyes will be able to tap into an artificial intelligence program to make sure emergency dispatchers are alerted to actual fires instead of mist rising off the for...

Technion scientists introduce stem-cell tissue regeneration technology to rebuild bone with fewer complications.

By Jon Schiller, ISRAEL21c While modern medicine has made leaps and bounds in the field of tissue and organ reconstruction over the years, it is still limited by one major drawback: Human beings don’t have spare parts. If a car-accident survivor needs a reconstructed jaw, for instance, surgeons must build it from a piece of the patient’s fibula bone and the surrounding soft tissue and blood vessels, in a procedure known as autografting. Autografting takes a heavy toll on the body and can of...

A Big Step Toward Creating the Next Generation of Rechargeable Batteries Written by AZoCleantechMay 7 2021 Researchers have taken a crucial stride toward making next-generation rechargeable batteries, which will substitute present energy storage technology if successful. Dr Pooja Goddard. Image Credit: Loughborough University. Scientists from Loughborough University and the University of Liverpool have been collaborating with the British company Johnson Matthey—a pioneer in sustainable techno...

Living clothes: Soon, you may see apparels made of algae! By using 3D printers and novel bioprinting technique, researchers have printed ‘living’ materials which are tough, resilient and 100 per cent eco-friendly Amsterdam (Netherlands): For the first time, an international team of researchers from the University of Rochester and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands used 3D printers and a novel bioprinting technique to print algae into living, photosynthetic materials tha...

Study Advances Stable and Practical Electrolytes for Li-O2 Batteries Written by AZoMMay 7 2021 Under the guidance of the University of Liverpool, a study performed in collaboration with Johnson Matthey PLC and Loughborough University has been making considerable advances in the development of practical and stable electrolytes for lithium-oxygen batteries. Image Credit: University of Liverpool. The lithium-oxygen (Li-O 2) battery (or lithium-air battery) is made of Li-metal and a porous conducti...

Date Time Significant progress in lithium-air battery development Research led by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with Johnson Matthey PLC and Loughborough University, is making significant progress in the development of stable and practical electrolytes for lithium-oxygen batteries. The lithium-oxygen (Li-O 2) battery (or lithium-air battery), consisting of Li-metal and a porous conductive framework as its electrode’s releases energy from the reaction of oxygen from the air and l...

Ultra-Thin Organic Imager Makes the Invisible Visible by Peering Into the Infrared Spectrum Combining a shortwave infrared photodetector and an OLED display, this flexible biomedical-safe device is a real breakthrough. A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIM) have unveiled a large-area yet surprisingly-thin infrared imager which, they say, is flexible, low-cost, and safe for...

Soon, your future shirts or pants might be made of algae.

This photosynthetic material could be made into living clothes 04 May 2021 Professional Engineering A small sample of the bioprinted photosynthetic material, which could one day be used to make artificial leaves or living clothes (Credit: University of Rochester photo) A new living, photosynthetic material could be used for clothes, energy harvesting or medical applications, its developers have said. An international team of researchers from the University of Rochester in N...