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Jilin University and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry modified a carbon nanotube cathode to curb iodine shuttling in an aqueous zinc battery; a pouch-cell prototype was also built.
The SPLICE payload mapped terrain and assessed landing areas during a drone flight at Rogers Dry Lake, California. NASA reports the test raised the technology's readiness level.
A correlative X-ray method combining phase-contrast CT and small-angle scattering mapped nano- and microscale strain in intact rat discs under load.
Chemists at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry isolated copper–heteroaryl sulfone complexes that cleave a C–S bond under visible light, producing alkyl radicals.
Barcelona-based Titan OS raised €40 million ($46 million) from Highland Europe, Mangrove and a BlackRock credit facility for its independent Linux-based smart TV OS.
Orbital Matter says its 13 kg demonstrator printed a rigid beam in vacuum and helped unfold a solar module. Load capacity data are not yet published.
Aluminum projectiles hit a diamond composite at up to Mach 8.45; parts of it turned to graphite within microseconds, dispersing impact energy, the authors report.
The first low-floor passenger train on hydrogen fuel cells has been assembled at Demikhovo and moves to testing. It is intended for non-electrified lines on Sakhalin.
In a laboratory test, Chiba researchers split one 8 mm × 8 mm CVD diamond along the {100} plane after four steps of 10 ps laser pulses.
ETH Zurich researchers built a prototype quadcopter whose deformable ring frame absorbs impacts, so it keeps flying after hitting obstacles at about 25 km/h.
A SLAC-led team published in Science X-ray scattering data showing a chiral signal in MnTe, which a conventional antiferromagnet should not produce.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory squeezed small crystals of manganese telluride and iron sulfide between titanium plates and recorded changes in magnetic domains and the anomalous Hall effect.
Researchers from MIT and the University of Delaware used flexible charged ligands instead of rigid ones, controlling bonds per nanoparticle in laboratory experiments.
At World Hydrogen Expo 2026 in Goyang, Hyundai also demonstrated a refueling robot for a fuel cell cleaning truck and fuel cells with improved durability.
Chinese and US groups report that spinodal decomposition in Au50Ag20Cu30 raises elastic modulus and hardness together; nanoindentation and simulations agree.
Ferroelectric transistors on wurtzite AlScN with an ultrathin IGO channel reached a 20.6 V memory window, 10^6 endurance and 64 states. The MFMIS structure lowered interface trap density.
Researchers in Beijing partitioned oxygen between α and β phases of a dual-phase titanium alloy, triggering a β → O' transformation and added plasticity.
A submicron graphene device produces a transverse thermoelectric voltage at zero magnetic field, without cooling, the authors report; it is a laboratory demonstration.
Metadynamics simulations and high-pressure, high-temperature synthesis show scale-dependent pathways of diamond nucleation from carbon precursors of different dimensionality.
Dynamic ultrasound plus MRI segmented compartments of the flexor digitorum superficialis in vivo and gave 3D fiber trajectories; the study involved ten healthy people.
