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A study in Nature Communications introduces a personalized federated learning framework that enables privacy-preserving, high-accuracy detection of battery faults across heterogeneous electric-vehicle charging data.
Researchers introduce sodium sulfamate as a bromine scavenger for zinc/bromine flow batteries, reducing levels of corrosive free bromine. This innovation boosts energy density, cycle life, and corrosion resistance, offering a promising route to stable, cost-effective large-scale energy storage.
A study in Nature Photonics reports a miniaturized cascaded-diode-array spectral imager that enables electrically tunable spectral measurements from 365 nm down to 250 nm.
Researchers introduce the FoRoGated-Structure, a folding and rolling structure that combines compact storage with strength. This structure supports sliding and load bearing, enabling robots with extended reach and structural stability demonstrated through a vacuum-inspired reaching robot and a gantry structure.
A study in Nature Energy reports a software-based approach that allows AI data centres to operate as flexible, grid-aware loads, reducing power demand during peak periods without compromising performance.
The 1st International Conference on Superconductor Materials and Metamaterials for Quantum Hardware was held in Glasgow, UK, on 18–19 November. Here, we present a summary of the inaugural conference.
A study in Optics Express reports the design of a simple dielectric metasurface structure composed of lithium niobate defect disks that enhances the generation of entangled photon pairs through spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
An article in Physical Review X reports a reinforcement learning approach for designing fault-tolerant quantum circuits for scalable, noise-resilient quantum computing.
An article in Nature Nanotechnology reports a molecular crystal memristor that exhibits ultralow switching energy and high endurance for neuromorphic computing.
Sonochemical exfoliation of synthesized bulk black phosphorus crystals provides a route to produce high-quality, narrow and clean black phosphorus nanoribbons for practical applications in electronic and optoelectronic fields.
A study in Nature Communications presents a compact, lightweight, integrated sensor array for real-time monitoring of lithium-ion battery health and safety.
A study in Nature Machine Intelligence presents a foundation model that uses multi-modal images and progressive pretraining to enhance generalizability across diverse Earth observation tasks.
A article in Nature Electronics presents a metal-stamp imprinting technique for the fabrication of wafer-scale, high-quality, residue-free two-dimensional semiconductor arrays.
An article in Nature Cities assesses the deployable potential of rooftop solar photovoltaics across Chinese cities, finding that only 42% of the national technical potential is realistically deployable.
An article in Science Advances presents a bioinspired artificial vibrissal system for wind-source tracking in search-and-rescue and environmental monitoring applications.
An article in Advanced Functional Materials presents a conductive hydrogel-based electronic skin with high flexibility, sensitivity and biocompatibility for human health sensing.