Microchannel

Researchers have developed a new technique that brings self-healing capabilities to fiber-reinforced composite materials, like those used in airplanes and automobiles. The system relies on 3D vascular networks that release healing agents when ruptured.

A new manufacturing method that incorporates laser technology may result in thin film solar panels that are less expensive and more efficient than anything presently on the market.

A high school physics teacher has invented a method of producing microfluidic devices, using little else than a photocopier and transparency film.

After multicores, 3D chips promise faster performance and, even more importantly, better efficiency to reduce the rapidly growing environmental impact of data centers around the globe.

Researchers in the U.S. believe the secret to cooling the electronics in a hybrid engine may lie in understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny ‘microchannels’.