See the AutoEM (Artificial-Intelligence-Guided Transmission Electron Microscope) developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that combines machine learning with the microscope’s advanced automation to achieve in one hour what used to take a team of humans 1000 hours.
Heat Treating 52100 Steel
This video from Kinetic Precision NH shows the heat treatment of 52100 steel, a chromium steel alloy used in ball bearings and gage blocks.
DC power converter that provides significant boost and efficiency
Researchers at Kobe University, Japan, in partnership with National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, developed a new electrical power converter design that provides considerably better efficiency at reduced cost and maintenance than before.
ORNL researchers enhance reliability of electric vehicle charging
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., are developing algorithms and multilayered communication and control systems that make electric vehicle chargers operate more reliably, even if there is a voltage drop or disturbance in the electric grid.
Two-faced solar panels can generate more power at up to 70% less cost
Researchers at the University of Surrey, England, University of Cambridge, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xidian University, and Zhengzhou University, China, built a new kind of two-faced (bifacial) solar panel using single-walled carbon nanotubes as both front and back electrodes that are the highest efficiency single junction solar cells to date.