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“Nanostructures Optimize Light Absorption in Black Butterflies – Principle Can Be Transferred to Photovoltaics for Improving Light Harvesting in Thin-Film Solar Cells – Cell Efficiency Increase Sunlight reflected by solar cells is lost as unused energy. The wings of the butterfly Pachliopta …
“A universal quantum computer still is a vision. Special quantum systems that promise to solve certain tasks more quickly than a classical computer, however, are already playing an important role in science. To reliably find a certain element in unsorted …
“Superconducting Quantum Simulator Outperforms Conventional Computer and May Simulate Complex Biological Processes, such as Plant Metabolism Hurricanes, traffic jams, demographic development – to predict the effect of such events, computer simulations are required. Many processes in nature, however, are so complicated …
“Materials with a Shape Memory so far Have Had to Be Composed of Various Components in a Painstaking Process – Scientists now Discovered Self-healing Powers of Pure Gold Self-healing materials are able to repair autonomously defects, such as scratches, cracks or …
“Today, the desired book, toy or household appliance can be purchased by a click only – thanks to online mail order business and smart logistics. The bottleneck in logistics, however, is the high-bay store, where many picking and detection processes cannot …
“Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have set a new record for optical data transmission: As reported in Nature, the team exploits optical solitons circulating in silicon nitride microresonators to generate broadband …
” In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to 3-D print virtually anything. Consider standard printers, which “synthesize” thousands of colors by using only three color cartridges. By analogy, future 3-D printers may be capable of synthesizing thousands of different …
“Researchers Develop Novel, Inexpensive, and Powerful Active Materials for Sodium-based Energy Storage Systems / Publications in Advanced Energy Materials and ChemElectroChem. A carbon-based active material produced from apple leftovers and a material of layered oxides might help reduce the costs of …
“Conventional electroluminescent (EL) foils can be bent up to a certain degree only and can be applied easily onto flat surfaces. The new process developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in cooperation with the company of Franz Binder GmbH …