Phase change material
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Researchers at Lancaster University have developed a new material that can store energy for months, and potentially years, at a time. The material can be activated by light, and then release the pent-up energy on demand in the form of heat.
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The more clothing that you wear, the warmer you are … right? Well actually, scientists have developed a new textile that both warms wearers in cold environments, and cools them down when things heat up.
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Three years ago, we heard how scientists from Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology had created transparent wood – it could serve as a cheaper alternative to the silica-based glass used in windows and solar cells. Now, the material is additionally able to store heat and later release it.
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In cold places, ice and frost can be more than an annoyance – it can be downright dangerous for cars and planes. Now researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a new anti-icing material that can apparently keep ice at bay much longer than existing technologies.
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MIT scientists are developing a new material that absorbs heat, stores it, and releases it again when exposed to light. The material could one day provide, among other things, a solar-powered cooking stove that could absorb heat from the sun during the day and release it on command at night.
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A technology called phase-change memory has emerged as a promising candidate for improved computer memory, and now IBM researchers have worked out how to triple the amount of data bits each cell can hold, edging the technology closer to a cost-effective, blistering fast storage solution.
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California-based Ember Technologies has developed a connected coffee mug that is claimed to keep your beverage hotter for longer, with users able to set the temperature through a companion smartphone app or a twist of the mug's base.
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Although solar panels are active while the sun is shining, they typically don't do much once the sun goes down. A newly-developed device, however, uses paraffin to store heat energy until it's needed.
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Imagine if there were robots that could squirm through debris to reach buried survivors at disaster sites, or even travel through patients' bodies to perform medical procedures. A team of scientists is working on making such technology a reality, using a combination of polyurethane foam and wax.
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Scientists in the UK have developed created a prototype device that features pixels just 30 x 30 nanometers in size. The development could lead to extremely high-resolution displays that put the pixel densities found in current displays to shame.
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The designers of the Temperfect mug claim that it can keep your hot drink at the perfect sipping temperature for hours at a time, without using any electricity.
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Drywall boards containing paraffin microcapsules can reportedly reduce a building’s energy consumption by up to 40 percent.
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