Hexcel Corporation broke ground on an expansion that will double the size of its existing engineered core manufacturing operation in Morocco to meet increased demand from aerospace customers for lightweight advanced composites.
Materials scientists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and colleagues from five other universities around the world have discovered the major reason why perovskite solar cells, which show great promise for improved energy-conversion efficiency, degrade in sunlight, causing their performance to suffer over time.
A research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has engineered an approach that enables solar panels or the mirrors of solar thermal plants to be cleaned automatically in a waterless and no-contact system that could considerably decrease the prevalence of dust.
Imec, Belgium, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presented a new impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter chip that could redefine the future of UWB technology.
A machine-learning algorithm developed at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., could provide auto manufacturing, aerospace and other industries a faster and more cost-efficient way to test bulk materials.
