Engineers created a new type of battery that weaves two promising battery sub-fields into a single battery. The battery uses both a solid state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode, making it a silicon all-solid-state battery. The initial rounds of tests show that the new battery is safe, long lasting, and energy dense. It holds promise for a wide range of applications from grid storage to electric vehicles.
UBC researchers have created what could be the first battery that is both flexible and washable. It works even when twisted or stretched to twice its normal length, or after being tossed in the laundry.
"Wearable electronics are a big market and stretchable batteries are essential to their development," says Dr. Ngoc Tan Nguyen, a postdoctoral fellow at UBC's faculty of applied science. "However, up until now, stretchable batteries have not been washable. This is an essential addition if they are to withstand the demands of everyday use."
Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytechnic Institute researchers.
The finding that the building blocks of light can exist in a previously-unimaginable split form advances the fundamental understanding of light and how it behaves.
In the ongoing race to develop ever-better materials and configurations for solar cells, there are many variables that can be adjusted to try to improve performance, including material type, thickness, and geometric arrangement. Developing new solar cells has generally been a tedious process of making small changes to one of these parameters at a time. While computational simulators have made it possible to evaluate such changes without having to actually build each new variation for testing, the process remains slow.
En 2020 se celebró el centenario de la Unidad de Cooperativas de la OIT. Este acontecimiento era una buena ocasión para preguntarse por la contribución de la OIT al desarrollo del cooperativismo entre los trabajadores, y en particular sobre la postura de la organización en relación con las cooperativas de trabajo asociado.
En 2020 se celebró el centenario de la Unidad de Cooperativas de la OIT. Este acontecimiento era una buena ocasión para preguntarse por la contribución de la OIT al desarrollo del cooperativismo entre los trabajadores, y en particular sobre la postura de la organización en relación con las cooperativas de trabajo asociado.
Una delegación de la Confederación Española de Cooperativas de Trabajo Asociado -COCETA- se ha reunido esta mañana en el Ministerio de Derechos Sociales y Agenda 2030 para poner sobre la mesa la delicada situación de las cooperativas de trabajo dedicadas a los CUIDADOS.
Robotics is a diverse sector with many moving parts, and what its future will look like is a complex question. To offer insight, BCG did a deep dive into the robotics industry and the potential for old and new players to grow over the next decade. Our very concise conclusion: robotics has significant upside potential.
Symbotic is going public via a merger with SVF Investment Corp. 3, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by an affiliate of SoftBank Investment Advisers. Upon closing of the deal, which is expected to happen in the first half of 2022, Symbotic will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “SYM.”
