Power and Electrical Engineering

This topic covers issues related to energy generation, conversion, transportation and consumption and how the industry is addressing the challenge of energy efficiency in general.

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Saarbrücken research team uses artificial muscles to develop an air conditioner for the future

This unusual property is the reason why nitinol is also referred to as a ‘smart alloy’ or as ‘muscle wire’. This effect has been exploited by the Saarbrücken…

Climbing like ivy

How is it that ivy, Virginia creeper and clematis can climb? How high is their energy consumption? And is it possible to build robots that behave and move like…

New research initiative will power up Europe’s battery revolution

In the Strategic Action Plan on Batteries published in May 2018, the European Commission has highlighted the need to support the European battery industry…

High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones

A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a high-power fuel cell that advances technology…

Captured carbon dioxide converts into oxalic acid to process rare earth elements

What if we could not only capture carbon dioxide, but convert it into something useful? S. Komar Kawatra and his students have tackled that challenge, and…

Magnetization reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field

In the era of information technology revolution, electronics demand rapid evolution facilitated by greater efforts from materials researchers to pave the way…

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