3D Printed Spacer Fabrics (3DSF)
Knitted Spacer Fabrics (SF, AKA spacer mesh) have numerous uses in the fashion, automobile, safety industries, and more. Nevertheless, current SFs manufacturing suffers from some substantial limitations. The knitting machines are huge and very expensive, and the process requires a...
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3D printing-based diffractive optical element fabrication
Diffractive Optical Elements (DOEs) are used to shape the wavefront of incident light in complex patterns, and are ubiquitous across optical applications, ranging from laser processing through lithography to communication and imaging. Example applications include beam splitters, beam shapers, optical...
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3D vision utilizing single lens camera
In recent years, depth sensing has become essential for a variety of new significant applications. For example, depth sensors assist autonomous cars in navigation and in collision prevention. The physical constraints on active depth sensing mobile devices, such as light...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
A new hydrothermal treatment of metal parts – experimental proof of concept
Metals might develop cracks and holes during the manufacturing process. 3D printing renders parts very prone to such defects. Other manufacturing methods may create such defects as well. Defects may also form while the parts are in use. This affects...
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Acoustic localization and mapping of multi-rotor vehicles
A self-localization system for multi rotor drones . Localization is based on analysis of acoustic signature of returned acoustic signals as a result resulting from reflections from nearby objects. The transmitted acoustic signal is derived from rotor rotation. Advantages Localization...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Acoustic resonance excited heat exchange
Towards enhancing the efficiency of gas turbines, most thermodynamic cycles require heat to be either added or dissipated by a heat exchanger, which operates by associating two streams of different thermal potential. Due to form factor limitations of many size...
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As the operational envelope of unmanned air vehicles expands into the high sub-sonic and transonic speed range, the engine design process requires compromises in thrust, weight, fuel consumption, size, reliability, and manufacturing cost. Moreover, the engine requirements for multiple operating...
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Adaptive robotic stone carving process and tools
Stone carving is done either manually for design of special features or using repeatable CNC process that does not allow unique design of each stone. Manual carving is a lost craft and it is very rare and expensive to apply...
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Advanced failure analysis and design optimization for soft materials
Soft materials such as rubbers, elastomeric composites, hydrogels, and shape-memory polymers are integral to modern engineering, powering applications across automotive, aerospace, electronics, and biomedical industries. Yet despite their versatility, conventional testing and modeling methods often fail to capture their complex...
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All-angle electromagnetically transparent surfaces
Reflection off antenna radomes may distort the radiation pattern and reduce gain or bandwidth. Optical refraction may deform wavefronts of light and produce aberrant images. Remarkably, both wave reflection and refraction are inherently spatially dispersive, namely, they depend on the...
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Now adays, multifunctional sensors are required in every sphere of life. In fact, sensors and detectors are becoming essential part from human physiological monitoring to Mars exploration. However, it is not always beneficial to use olfactory sensors in wearable devices...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
Cloud BIM – collaborative platform for building professionals
The fragmented nature of the construction industry necessitates close collaboration among design disciplines and requires extensive data exchange. Despite advances in Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, teams still rely on a sequential file-based process for design exchange, resulting in issues...
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AI & Data Science|Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Sustainability Energy & ConTech
CMOS-SiPM array for ToF measurements
Researcher:
Prof. Emeritus Yael Nemirovsky
Ultra-sensitive light detection systems are increasingly being employed in applications such as mobile range finding, automotive ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), gesture recognition, 3D mapping, security, etc. There is an increasing need for "Super-Camera" which is capable of producing two-dimensional and...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering|Electro-Optics & Quantum
Construction of 3D Trusses via sphere packing
Truss lattices are common in a wide variety of engineering applications, due to their high ratio of strength versus relative density. They are used both as the interior support for other structures, and as structures on their own. Using 3D sphere...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Decision making under uncertain conditions
A system and methods are provided for decision making under uncertainty, for selecting an optimal action from among multiple candidate actions in belief space planning (BSP). BSP is a scalable approach for planning under uncertainty. Today, the two processes, inference...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Deep learning of robotic tasks using strong and weak human supervision
Consider the task of designing a robot capable of performing a complex human task such as dishwashing, driving or clothes ironing. Although natural for adult humans, designing a hard-coded algorithm for such a robot can be a daunting challenge. Difficulties...
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Delamination of multilayers films and packages
Every year, millions of tons of multilayer laminate materials—like food packaging, coffee bags, paper cups, juice cartons, and even solar panels—are either incinerated or landfilled due to the lack of an industrial method for separating their tightly bonded layers. These...
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Detecting far objects using a 3D optic system
Today, radar or stereoscopic systems are used when distance estimation is required. Radar systems require expensive equipment. Methods that are based on triangulation require 2 cameras. As the object distance increases, the distance between the cameras has to increase. In...
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Diamond electronics and oxygen sensor
Current oxygen sensors required for in-situ oxygen monitoring inside a process chamber in semiconductor manufacturing processes (such as ALD, epi CVD and PVD) are limited in operating pressure and temperature ranges. Transition metal oxides are highly sensitive to gases environment....
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Diamond film deposition on WC-Co
Adhesion of diamond coatings to cutting tool substrates is an important property in machine tool applications. Strong bonding of the diamond to the substrate is required to overcome thermal expansion coefficient and composition mismatch to promote the coating endurance in the...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
Direct injector of hydrogen or hydrogen-rich gaseous fuel
Current hydrogen rich fuel direct injectors suffer from low flow cross section, non-reliable closure and a non-optimized jet structure, which have a detrimental effect on the engine performance. Achieving higher flow rate, shorter open-close timing and higher backward pressure resistance...
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Displays from space using swarms of nanosatellites
Nano-satellites for forming signs enable easy display of changing signs over different territories and time windows. Known solutions require large satellites and expensive deployment mechanisms and resources. This technology deploys an array of nanosatellites for display forming which allow for...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Elephant trunk (robotic mechanism with two degrees of freedom)
The present invention relates to the field of robotic actuated mechanisms, especially those having a high load lifting capability and light weight, such that they are capable of being stacked end-to-end to provide a hyper-redundant, high flexibility, long robotic arm....
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Medical Devices & Digital Health
Engine Design based on Novel Thermodynamic Cycle
Internal combustion engines (ICE) will remain main propulsion technology for various applications for many years. However the challenges are security of energy supply, climate change issues and air pollution. Combined electro-thermo-chemical technology goal is to deal with all those issues...
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Extreme dimensionality reduction of network training dynamics
Training neural-networks is a highly demanding process, with respect to computational resources and time. Moreover, updating trained networks in deployment with new data is costly and may reduce the overall performance of the network (e.g. due to “catastrophic forgetting”). As...
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Flexible ultra-light weight conductors
Copper has been used in electrical wiring since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph in the 1820s. Standard copper wires are being used for numerous applications reliably for many years. However, as technology changes requirements from the current...
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Green corrosion resistant conductive coatings for magnesium alloys
Conductive coatings are of great importance for applications including dissimilar metals joining which needs continuous electrical conductivity as part of design considerations. Magnesium has galvanic corrosion with any other metal. Therefore, it's impossible to use metallic layers on magnesium as conductive...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
Water splitting is an important process towards the generation of H2 as a renewable and sustainable energy source; however, the high overpotential and slow kinetics limit its applicability. Most current photo- and electro-catalysts are expensive to make, not environmentally friendly...
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H2 production by electrocatalysis assisted by peptoid complex
Water splitting is an important process towards the generation of H2 as a renewable and sustainable energy source; however, the high overpotential and slow kinetics limit its applicability.Most current photo- and electro-catalysts are expensive to make, not environmentally friendly and...
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High rate hydrogenotrophic denitrification of drinking water
A novel pressurized high rate hydrogenotrophic reactor for denitrification without gas purging. This invention shows that during continuous operation a gas–liquid equilibrium is established in the reactor according to Henry’s law and excess N2 gas is carried out by the...
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High-temperature anion-exchange membrane fuel cell
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Highly stable membranes for alkaline fuel cells and electrolysers
Alkaline fuel cells and electrolyzers offer many advantages over their acidic counterparts, the main one being the possibility to replace precious metals in electrodes with other, low cost and abundant metals. However, the alkaline environment leads to substantial electrolyte decomposition...
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Hydrogen and electric energy production on-demand
Hydrogen storage and transportation is both inefficient and hazardous. Hydrogen production by reaction of water and activated aluminum can be done on demand and on the location where the hydrogen will be used. The weight of hydrogen produced is 11%...
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Innovative non-condensables purge system for closed cycle absorption heat pumps
Non-condensable gases (NCG) are known to cause a significant deterioration in the condensation and absorption heat and mass transfer processes in absorption systems used for thermal cooling and heating. Most absorption systems on the market are chillers, which operate with...
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In numerous widely used applications, such as micro gas turbines, fuel cells and internal combustion engines, significant amount of thermal energy is expelled with hot waste gas. The inverted Brayton bottoming cycle (IBC) offers a way to utilize this expelled...
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Laser multiphoton charge separation spectroscopy (MEES)
A novel analytical technology, MEES (Multiphoton Electron Extraction Spectroscopy), has been developed for sensitive compound detection and quantification under ambient conditions. In this method the sample is irradiated by a laser and the photocurrents are measured as a function of...
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Lithium-ion battery (LIB) is the most widely used energy storage device for portable consumer electronic devices, electric vehicles, and electric grids. Additionally, LIBs have become emerging devices to store renewable energy (i.e., wind, solar, geothermal). Due to the widespread use...
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Lightweight avionic parts such as wings and even aircraft body as well as high specific strength parts for seacrafts, automotive, wind turbine and other parts with demanding mechanical requirements are usually made of a laminate of skin which may be...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
Linear motion in a cylinder using helical wave generator in elastic component. A large static radial holding force is formed in addition to the linear motion created by the elliptical movement. The motion is precise and requires low power engine...
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Long duration Vacuum Arc Thruster for nanosatellite propulsion
Researcher:
Dr. Igal Kronhaus
A reliable, non-magnetic, long lived Vacuum Arc Thruster (VAT) - the inline screw feeding vacuum arc thruster (ISF-VAT) is a mechanically controlled feeding mechanism. The feeding mechanism moves the cathode towards the exit plane in a helical path. This enables...
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Low power hall thrusters
Researcher:
Dr. Igal Kronhaus
Hall thrusters, also known as closed drift accelerators, are very successful electric propulsion (EP) systems commonly used for spacecraft propulsion. Hall thrusters have good attributes, however they are designed to operate at power levels above 300 W - not suitable...
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Mass balancing for systems rotating and very high speed
Precise “mass balancing procedures” of fast rotating machines while being rotated at slow speeds of rotation. By adding a tunable, controlled external excitation that forces the rotating structure to ‘expose’ the projection of mass imperfection on the deflected structure at...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0
Measurement of coating thermal properties
Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are engineered to provide sustained thermal protection to engine components that are exposed to excessive heat load. In the wake of this application, a reliable, non-intrusive and quantitative thermal property measurement method is in high demand...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
Message authentication based on physical location on a bus
Researcher:
Prof. Eli Biham
With the ever evolving connectivity and functionality of devices, systems, infrastructures and/or the like, cyber-attacks and cyber threats may present a major and ever growing security concern for multiple networks, systems and infrastructures. Potential malicious attackers may penetrate a network...
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Metafoils – morphing airfoil skins
In all conventional aircraft this change of shape is achieved by mechanical servo motors which provide angular or linear motion so as to tilt a rigid portion of the wing or lifting device. Aircraft manufacturers are attempted to develop planes...
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Microstructure control of ceramic matrix nanocomposites
Ceramic matrix nanocomposites have interesting advantages over their monolithic counterparts. These composites are based on a micron-sized ceramic matrix reinforced with metal or ceramic sub-micron or nanometer-sized particles as a second phase. One of the main goals of reinforcing the...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
AI based Optimization scheme for MIMO /Array RADAR systems reducing complexity and cost by optimizing antenna and transmitter/ Receiver topology and reducing the overall number of Transmitting/ Receiving blocks. Advantages Cost and power reduction of RADAR systems Size reduction Applications...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Mold-less molding additive manufacturing of volumetric objects
Traditional additive manufacturing methods such as 3D / 4D printing, Selective laser sintering (SLS), Stereolithography (SLA), Digital light process (DLP) and Volumetric additive manufacturing (VAM) are powerful tools for prototyping, but they’re limited by slow build speed and inhomogeneous mechanical...
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In clean manufacturing environments such as in the semi-conductor industry, transferring items such as wafers, glass, screens and other flat objects might cause to their contamination due to splashes from lubricants for example. A method and a device to carry...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Online single and multi-agent decision making under uncertainty
Autonomous decision making under uncertainty is a fundamental problem in AI and robots, and is essential in numerous practical applications. Novel approaches are provided for decision making under uncertainty, for determining optimal actions online for single and multi agent systems...
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Piezoelectric devices with obliquely aligned electrodes
There exist many mechanical designs of piezoelectric unimorph actuators that can generate various motions other than conventional in-plane motions. Such devices are used to generate deflections or bending, twisting or torsional motion, and parallel out-of-plane motion, for use in micro-electromechanical...
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Piezoelectric-ferroelectric actuator device
The capabilities of piezoelectric stacks actuators are still limited in terms of induced strains and travel range due to the materials operational range. They also have reduced resistance to large mechanical loads in the direction of movement. Many piezoelectric materials...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Electro-Optics & Quantum
Post-functionalization mechanophores via Click Chemistry
The autonomous detection of mechanical stress in plastics and polymers (both biological/natural and synthetic) traditionally requires the incorporation of mechanophores (force-sensitive molecular probes) during the chemical step - polymerization, and therefore does not allow for incorporation after processing. In addition,...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials|Therapeutics & Diagnostics
Probabilistic object classifications
Object detection and classification is a component of situational awareness important to many autonomous systems and robotic tasks. The mobility of robotic systems is widely exploited to overcome limitations of static, one-point-of-view approaches to measurement classification. These limitations may include...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Protection layer for battery electrodes
In Li-ion batteries electrode materials degrade through their reactive interface with the electrolyte. The undesirable interfacial reactions result in formation of layers that impede charge transfer and can serve as an active site for electrolytic consumption, electrode corrosion and passivation,...
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Radiometric interferometry for deep space navigation
Deep space navigation, particularly for spacecraft beyond lunar orbit, currently relies on traditional terrestrial systems such as NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) and ESA’s ESTRACK. These networks employ Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) for angular positioning. While exceptionally accurate, these...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Electro-Optics & Quantum
Recycled, 3D printed wood products for the construction industry
The construction industry is one of the most polluting industries, mostly due to concrete and plastic usage. To reduce construction related pollution and waste, one of the possible solutions is to increase the use of Recycled Wood & Polymer Materials...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials|Sustainability Energy & ConTech
Phosphogypsum is a product of manufacturing of phosphoric acid from phosphate rock. It contains radioactive impurities and chemical impurities which deteriorate the gypsum quality. Huge quantities of phosphogypsum is piling next to quarries. Some process exists to clean the phosphogypsum...
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Reinforcement learning of robotic control policies
Robots are expected to propagate over different terrains. There is a growing need to provide a method for controlling a movement of a robot that is robust, can allow the robot to propagate over terrains with positive and negative slopes,...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Road traffic forecasting system
Setting complex traffic light plans is a must as intersections are becoming more complicated and crowded. Current plans must take into account not only vehicles and pedestrians but also bicycles, public transportation of different types etc. The plans should provide...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Rotational casting of inorganic cement architectural components
Façade tiles and aesthetics components with complex geometries are currently difficult to fabricate and require cement or mechanical parts such as bolts for connections. Inorganic cementitious tiles are relatively weak and absorb water. Manufacturing such architectural elements from polymers and...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Sustainability Energy & ConTech
Self-sterilized polymers for coatings and printing
Researcher:
Prof. Yoav Eichen
Low migration, low odor UV curable polymer compositions designed to passively self-sterilize in an accelerated process, without any need for human intervention The polymers are amenable to coating, 2D- as well as 3D-printing Irreversible immobilization onto the surface and accelerated...
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Separation of ions from water and wastewater
Purification of water or waste water from nitrates and other ions can be done using ion exchange and other processes which consume large amounts of salts, acids or bases and produce highly concentrated brines that are difficult to treat. In...
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Separation of launcher stages and bodies in space
Impulse of a rocket-type combustion chamber is achieved via pressure build-up in a combustion chamber and releasing via a narrow nozzle. Impulse augmentation is achieved via placing a concentrated mass (weight, gel, powder) at the exit of the combustion chamber...
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Shockwave protection layer
Abnormal inverse-freezing phenomena, in which fluids solidify upon heating. It was shown that upon impact, some of these inverse-freezing fluids undergo solidification by absorbing impact energy. This novel phase transformation, which occurs in timescales of microseconds, is in stark contrast...
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Single input multiplexed decision system
Many applications of genetic or metabolic engineering require inducible expression of the desired pathway. Inducible promoters are one of the easiest and most effective ways to control gene expression. However, in a more sophisticated applications there is a need to...
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Current technologies to detect the development of underground cavities such as sinkholes or cross border smuggling tunnels require complicated and expensive data acquisition techniques. Fiber optics buried at shallow depth enable continuous, distributed monitoring of soil deformations along tens of...
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Skin-like sensing platform
Skin-like sensing platform for a full physical and chemical perception of the surrounding space - platform unit for detecting VOCs, temperature, pH, pressure and strain. The patches are based on sensor technology and self-healing and self repair polymeric substrate, electrodes...
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Software tools for improved tire properties
Radial agriculture tires are designed to be more flexible while keeping integrity, have higher contact area with the ground and lower tremor while driving. Higher vehicle speeds and weight require redesign of the tires. Current simulations and models take only...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0
Traditional stimuli-responsive actuators convert environmental cues (e.g., water uptake, heat, or electric fields) into motion, but they often require the entire structure to be stimulated and rely on external power or control systems, limiting autonomy and adaptability. The proposed solution...
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Synthetic aperture imaging by distributed arrays of space telescopes
Long-range imaging is used across various disciplines, including astronomy, remote sensing and surveillance. Higher resolution requires larger aperture and lenses. This makes these systems expensive and cumbersome. A new method for synthetically expanding the aperture by acquiring multiple images of...
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Thermally stable nano-porous gold
Novel methods to form thermally stable gold particles. The particles are made either from nano-porous gold (np-Gold) – sponge-like single crystals with intricate morphology or thin polycrystalline gold atomic steps. The catalytic activity is akin to that of Au nanoparticles...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
Transparent and lightweight ballistic protection
Transparent armor is essentially based on the performance of the component materials, and their stacking. Beyond that point, it is commonly believed that little can be added to the system to improve its performance. High confinement pressure over the glass...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Security & Defence
Viscosity modifiers for oils and lubricants
Oils and lubricants are crucial to the reduction of erosion and energy loss in systems that include moving surfaces. Two basic requirements for these materials are high viscosity, for surface adherence; and viscosity-temperature response, which is achieved by adding polymers...
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Automotive, Aerospace & Industry 4.0|Chemistry & Materials
Water desalination - selective removal of specific Ions
Selective water treatment, which removes more problematic ions preferentially over others, is an important goal towards next generation, energy efficient water treatment systems. Current treatment techniques rely on chemical sedimentation or membrane separation, the latter of which is used in...
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Wide scale terrestrial imaging of the sky
A variety of spaceborne and airborne instruments have been applied to spatio-angularly sample and image atmospheric radiance. These imaging architectures, however, have a spatial resolution of several Km/ pixel, an angular resolution of approximately 7 angles per view, and their...
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