Reporte #108
Engineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
MIT News – Engineering
Microfluidic device generates passive hydraulic power, may be used to make small robots move.
Fractus Antennas Pitches New “Antenna-less” Smartphone Technology
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
A tiny company based in Barcelona is promoting a new technology that it hopes can revolutionize smartphone antennas—by removing them altogether.
Security for multirobot systems
MIT News – Engineering
New technique could protect robot teams’ communication networks from malicious hackers.
NASA says biofuels could massively reduce jet engine particle emissions
The Engineer
A study from NASA has found that jet engines running on biofuels can reduce particle emissions by between 50 and 70 per cent.
Combining Twisted Light and Plasmons Could Supercharge Data Storage
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Research that started out with the humble aim of growing an atomically flat, single crystalline gold surface, ultimately morphed into a team of German and Israeli scientists using the gold surface they came up with for a novel form of data storage.
Projeto da torre vegetal Occitânia
EngenhariaCivil.com
O Estúdio Libeskind divulgou novas imagens do projeto de construção da Torre Occitânia, um arranha-céus de 150 metros de altura, previsto para o coração urbano de Toulouse. O edifício será o mais alto alguma vez construído naquela cidade Sul de França, sendo constituído por um hotel, espaços de escritórios e 120 apartamentos, distribuídos por 40 pisos.
O edifício mais longo do mundo
EngenhariaCivil.com
Trata-se de um projeto conceptual do gabinete grego e norte-americano Oiio, que propõe a construção de um mega-arranha-céus, na 57ª Avenida, em Nova Iorque, com uma geometria singular. Dimensionado de forma a ultrapassar a limitação de altura máxima imposta pelas regras de zonamento de Manhattan, o “The Big Bend“, como foi batizado o edifício, não bateria recordes de altura mas antes recordes de comprimento (1230 metros), tornando-se “o mais longo do mundo“, de acordo com os projetistas.
Study points a way to better implants
The Engineer
Selectively blocking immune cells can prevent formation of scar tissue around medical devices.
Rising to the transport challenge of mass-urbanisation
The Engineer
The number of people living in cities isn’t getting any smaller. In 2014, 54 per cent of the world’s population resided in urban areas, a figure that is expected to grow to 66 per cent by 2050.
Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells Climbs
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells ClimbsIn research published this week in Nature Energy, researchers at Kaneka Corp., a resin and plastics manufacturer based in Osaka, describe the first silicon solar cell to achieve a record-breaking 26.3 percent efficiency—a 0.7 percent increase over the previous record. That may not seem like a lot, but it’s really a big step when you consider that silicon solar cells’ theoretical maximum efficiency is just 29 percent.