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IMAGE: Dr. Randall Ellingson, professor of physics at The University of Toledo, received a $12.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force to develop space-based solar energy sheets to transmit clean. view more
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The military is adding fuel to the momentum of physicists at The University of Toledo who are advancing new frontiers in thin-film, highly efficient, low-cost photovoltaic technology to ensure a clean energy future.
The U.S. Air Force awarded UToledo $12.5 million to develop photovoltaic energy sheets that would live in space and harvest solar energy to transmit power wirelessly to Earth-based receivers or to other orbital or aerial instrumentation, such as communications satellites.
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IMAGE: Scientists from NUST MISIS have presented a technology for recycling lithium batteries for electric transport: electric buses, electric scooters, electric cars, etc. It represents a complete engineering cycle: from safe. view more
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS
Scientists from NUST MISIS have presented a technology for recycling lithium batteries for electric transport: electric buses, electric scooters, electric cars, etc. It represents a complete engineering cycle: from safe opening and determination of the amount of technogenic raw materials to be extracted and recycled to the introduction of processing lines. Recycling lithium batteries will reduce their cost by about 30-40% and solve the problem of safe and environmentally friendly storage. The technology can be used for the electric transport development program in Moscow.
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IMAGE: His inventions in the field of spintronics have revolutionised computer technology. For this, Stuart Parkin will be honoured with the King Faisal Prize for Science 2021. view more
Credit: Marco Warmuth, TGZ Halle GmbH
Parkin s inventions in the field of spintronics have revolutionised computer technology, making it possible to increase the data density on hard disks by a factor of 1000. With his research on thin magnetic layers, he created the basis at IBM on which the company developed a new read head for hard disks. This reads data reliably even from very densely packed magnetic storage materials. This laid the foundation for Big Data, i.e. the handling of large amounts of data. Not least because of this, films and pictures can now be easily exchanged via social networks or computer clouds, making them available to groups of networked computers. These spin-valve recording read heads were only the tip of the spintronics iceberg. As a second major invent
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IMAGE: Recently, Professor Gen-ichiro Arimura from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, encapsulated the research on the herbivory-sensing mechanism of plants through elicitors. Commenting of the immense value of these elicitors, Prof.. view more
Credit: Gen-ichiro Arimura, Tokyo University of Science
Nature has its way of maintaining balance. This statement rightly holds true for plants that are eaten by herbivores insects or even mammals. Interestingly, these plants do not just silently allow themselves to be consumed and destroyed; in fact, they have evolved a defense system to warn them of predator attacks and potentially even ward them off. The defense systems arise as a result of inner and outer cellular signaling in the plants, as well as ecological cues. Plants have developed several ways of sensing damage; a lot of these involve the sensing of various elicitor molecules produced by either the predator or the plants themselves and initiation of an SOS