Michigan Engineering | University of Michigan By reflecting nearly all the light they can’t turn into electricity, they help pave the way for storing renewable energy as heat.
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Mirror-like photovoltaics get more electricity out of heat
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Powering robots: biomorphic batteries could provide 72 times more energy than stand-alone cells
The researchers compare them to fat deposits in living creatures.
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Urban solar energy: Solar panels for windows hit record 8% efficiency
Transparent solar panels on windows could take a bite out of a building’s electricity needs.
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COVID-19 is laying waste to many US recycling programs
‘The trends we see in the making and consuming of single-use goods, particularly plastic, could have lasting negative effects on the circular economy.’
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Lights in the labs – and eyes – of researchers coming back to work
‘Noncritical’ in-person research begins ramping up, with public-health protocols.
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Designing lightweight glass for efficient cars and wind turbines
Lighter, stiffer glass fibers could make composite materials thinner without sacrificing strength.
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Researchers gain control over internal structure of self-assembled composite materials
Researchers new templating technique instills greater order and gives rise to new 3D structures in a special class of high-performance materials, called eutectics.
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How an age-old process could lead to new materials and even invisibility
A Q&A with Ashwin Shahani, U-M assistant professor of materials science and engineering
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Post-silicon computing gets one step closer
Tunable semiconductor could lead to faster, more efficient computers.
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Cracking the mystery of nature’s toughest material
How mollusks engineered the most advanced nanostructure on Earth
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