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A team of engineers may be one step closer to cleaning up heavily contaminated industrial wastewater streams. Researchers from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering developed an electrochemical oxidation process with the aim of cleaning up complex wastewater that contained a toxic cocktail of chemical pollutants. "Our study, published in Algal Research, involved … [Read more...] about Engineers use electricity to clean up toxic water

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built a new type of battery that combines the many benefits of existing options while eliminating their key shortcomings and saving energy. Most batteries are composed of either solid-state electrodes, such as lithium-ion batteries for portable electronics, or liquid-state electrodes, … [Read more...] about New room-temperature liquid-metal battery could be the path to powering the future

In an effort to improve large touchscreens, LED light panels and window-mounted infrared solar cells, researchers have made plastic conductive while also making it more transparent. … [Read more...] about Making plastic more transparent while also adding electrical conductivity

Forschungsverbund Berlin. "Optical amplifiers: Highest peak power and excellent stability: Record parameters for amplified ultrashort pulses." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 July 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706113926.htm>. Forschungsverbund Berlin. (2020, July 6). Optical amplifiers: Highest peak power and excellent stability: Record parameters for … [Read more...] about Optical amplifiers: Highest peak power and excellent stability

Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in the important, emerging field of spintronics -- which could lead to a new high speed energy efficient data technology. An international team of researchers, including the University of Exeter, has made a revolutionary discovery that has the potential to provide high speed, low power-usage for some of the world's most well-used … [Read more...] about New breakthrough in 'spintronics' could boost high speed data technology