According to a statistic from the University of Chicago, 50 percent of U.S. power goes through a motor. Vehicles like cars and planes rely on motors to transform power, as do household appliances like vacuums and refrigerators. ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 29, 2018
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Researchers are paving the way to total reliance on renewable energy as they study both large- and small-scale ways to replace fossil fuels. One promising avenue is converting simple chemicals into valuable ones using renewable ...
Materials Science
Sep 13, 2018
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The nervous system is loaded with encoded information: thoughts, emotions, motor control. This system in our bodies is an enigma, and the more we can do to understand it, the more we can do to improve human life. Brain-machine ...
Materials Science
Jun 15, 2018
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed methods that speed up the process of developing chemically linked synthetic and biological molecules by more than 10 times in natural conditions. The findings, which marry ...
Materials Science
Mar 27, 2018
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When the energy efficiency of electronics poses a challenge, magnetic materials may have a solution.
General Physics
Mar 12, 2018
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Power transformation. Electrification of vehicles. Creating motors that are efficient. Some of the biggest technologies of the future rest on finding ways to efficiently transform energy. And the backbone that enables the ...
General Physics
Feb 12, 2018
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While we know what a tree leaf, a flower petal, and a human heart look like, we do not always understand the deeper question of how they grow the way they do—a process known as morphogenesis. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon ...
Materials Science
Jan 4, 2018
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Using hydrogen for energy production is nothing new. But with his research, Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Ph.D. candidate Ajay Pisat hopes to unlock its full potential as a primary, mainstream ...
Nanophysics
Aug 2, 2017
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Nature doesn't like having interfaces—this is why bubbles like to be round, and the surface of a pond settles to flat as long as it's not disturbed. These trends minimize the total amount of interface (or surface) that ...
General Physics
Jul 14, 2017
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One afternoon, Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)'s Mohammad Islam walked into colleague Paul Salvador's office and asked what the biggest problem was in photocatalysis that he'd like to be ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 6, 2017
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