Reporte #145
Electrochemical system rids wastewater of pollutants
The Engineer
Scientists from the National University of Singapore have developed an electrochemical approach to treat industrial wastewater using electricity as a reagent for purification.
Preventing the next blackout
MIT News – Engineering
An MIT study projects the potential impact of climate change on large power transformers in U.S. Northeast.
2D Materials Push Paper Electronics Towards the Internet of Things
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Paper-based electronics have primarily been limited to use in printed organic electronics. While this is promising for commodity applications such as packaging tags and toys, the speed of organic semiconductors is not suitable for most radio-frequency applications. Among the uses for which paper-based electronic devices have been heretofore unsuitable is connecting to the cloud over Bluetooth frequencies for the Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors, and other smart applications.
Controllable Cyborg Beetles for Swarming Search and Rescue
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Robotics tries very hard to match the agility, versatility, and efficiency of animals. Some robots get very close in a few specific ways, but we’re still chasing the dream of robots that can match our biological friends. One way of getting around this problem is by leveraging biology in the design of robots (and we do see a lot of bioinspiration in a variety of applications), but a more direct approach is to just make the robots themselves mostly biological.
Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
MIT News – Engineering
MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from genetically programmed living cells.
New nanowires are just a few atoms thick
MIT News – Engineering
Subnanometer-scale channels in 2-D materials could point toward future electronics, solar cells.
Two New Simulators Tease Future of Quantum Computing
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
A universal quantum computer capable of outperforming today’s classical computers in solving many different problems remains the biggest future prize for many engineers and researchers. One possible path toward that goal comes from two U.S. research groups that have demonstrated some of the largest quantum simulators ever built. Such specialized devices are much less versatile than the vision for universal quantum computers, but share architectural similarities that could pave the way for the latter.
Wireless wearable targets cells in fight against cancer
The Engineer
Wearable technology that could one day fight cancer by cutting off a mechanism that allows tumour cells to proliferate is being developed by researchers in the UK.
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
By thinking of atoms as letters and molecules as words, artificial intelligence software from IBM is now employing the same methods computers use to translate languages to predict outcomes of organic chemical reactions, which could speed the development of new drugs.
Scientists observe supermassive black hole in infant universo
MIT News – Engineering
Findings present a puzzle as to how such a huge object could have grown so quickly.