Thermoelectric devices convert heat to electricity and could drastically increase the efficiency of power generation. However, the yield has been very low so far. A team of scientists now has demonstrated a high-performing thermoelectric material that delivers the most efficient thermoelectric system on record.

The findings of an international team of scientists offer a novel route to energy saving technologies in the IT sector thanks to a drastic reduction in energy consumption for magnetization switching. The researchers demonstrated for the first time a 180° magnetization reversal purely by electric fields via magneto-ionic control of ferrimagnets.

Scientists at Russia's Itmo University have come up with a new way to design flexible, safe, and energy-efficient robots that can interact with objects in unexpected ways. Their features were demonstrated on a prototype — a compact hopping robot.

They are often referred to as the “building blocks of life”: Biomolecules. To understand and use their function in the body, one must know their structure. A time-consuming and sometimes imprecise matter. This is where the new method comes in, which was developed at the UDE with other German research centres — with the help of artificial intelligence. The researchers have now published their results in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Swedish researchers succeeded in binding water-insoluble antibacterial molecules to the graphene, and having the molecules release in a controlled, continuous manner from the material. Their method offers a way to prevent infections relating to medical implants.

a team of researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Professor Kimihisa Yamamoto and Associate Professor Takane Imaoka, have developed a novel imaging method using a metal-atom tracer in HAADF-STEM to determine the conformational structures of complex and highly branched polynuclear coordination compounds. What the scientists found is, however, not only limited to structural analysis coordination compounds.

A team from Japan has identified the origin of a phenomenon that occurs when rubber materials under stress rapidly break, and has shown that this abrupt fracturing occurs in many viscoelastic materials.

The calories that US kids consumed from ultraprocessed foods jumped from 61 % to 67 % of total caloric intake from 1999 to 2018, according to a new study. Surprisingly, there were no statistically significant differences in the overall findings by parental education and family income.

A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe — fundamentally changing from particle-like to fluid-like dynamics, the team reports in Nature Communications.

Currently in the early stages of development, a novel actuator developed at University of Houston is to become a key part of research contributing to the future of robotic, bioelectronic and biomedical science.