3D Printed Graphene Aerogel Offers Highest-Ever Capacitance for a Supercapacitor

3D printing technique could lead to revolution in fabrication of supercapacitorsAfter what has seemed a bit of a lapse in the timeline of their development, graphene-enabled supercapacitors may be poised to make a significant advances. Researchers at the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) have…

Building Smartphone Antennas That Play Nice Together

3D manufacturing can defeat the interference problem inside smart devices.article-detail aside.inlay .sb-hed, article-detail aside.inlay h3, article-detail aside.inlay .sb-list-subhead { color: #ee008c; } .article-detail aside.inlay { border-color: #ee008c; } Illustration: Mark Montgomery The problem has bedeviled designers for decades: How do you squeeze more and more antennas into smaller and smaller…

Robotic Raven Gains Altitude

Maryland student’s research advances pioneering micro air vehicle Inspired by the beauty and flying ability of birds, Leonardo da Vinci strived centuries ago to create a human-powered flapping-wing flying machine. But his designs, which da Vinci explored in his Codex on the Flight of Birds, were never developed in any…