Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara have miniaturized quadrupole ion traps for the first time ...

Quantum computing researchers have long wrestled with a tradeoff. Planar ion traps, built with flat electrodes, scale easily for larger systems but sacrifice performance. Traditional 3D traps, on the ...

As much as we love Star Trek, we have to admit there are some continuity problems. For example, in Spock’s Brain, the alien-of-the-week’s ion drive gave Scotty engineering envy. However, in The ...

Chinese researchers have developed a prototype of planar and flexible 3D printed sodium-ion micro batteries (NIMBs) with ultra-high areal capacity and boosted rate capability, according to a research ...

Electric vehicles and most electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers, are powered by lithium-ion batteries. Until now, manufacturers have had to design their devices around the size ...

Lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand have been created by a team from Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The microbatteries comprise precisely ...

Engineers in the US have developed a 3D printing method that could lead to vastly improved capacity and charge-discharge rates for lithium-ion batteries. SEM images of 3D printed electrodes for Li-ion ...

(Nanowerk News) Combining 3D printing technology with renewable materials and high temperature technology, a multidisciplinary project at Åbo Akademi University sets out to develop unique ...

As technology advances, gadgets and gizmos are becoming smaller and smaller. From medical devices to bee-sized robots, developments in engineering have made for incredibly tiny electronics. To ...

[Jennifer Lewis] is a Harvard Materials Scientist, and she’s recently come up with a type of Lithium Ion “Ink” that allows her to 3D print battery cells. You might remember our recent 3D Printering ...