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The automotive industry was a key focus at January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and a major part of that was the development of autonomous car technology.Many of the major automotive manufacturers, including Audi, Aston Martin and BMW, launched concepts around connected and driverless cars at the event.

Organic photovoltaics bear great potential for large-scale, cost-effective solar power generation. One challenge to be surmounted is the poor ordering of the thin layers on top of the electrodes. Utilising self-assembly on atomically flat, transparent substrates, a team of scientists at the TUM has engineered ordered monolayers of molecular networks with photovoltaic responses. The findings open up intriguing possibilities for the bottom-up fabri...

A cost-effective method of fabricating high quality light-emitting fibres could benefit sectors ranging from sensors to wearable smart devices. EU-funded researchers have developed a new method for manufacturing fibres made from nanostructured organic materials. The breakthrough could lead to the cost-effective fabrication of light-emitting fibres at the nanoscale that can be used in sensors and bio-sensors, for energy harvesting (i.e. solar pane...

Before reinventing the high heel, Dolly Singh was a recruiter who brought thousands of engineers to places such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is building rockets in Los Angeles. At SpaceX, Singh, 36, wore heels every day. Even though she loved pitching people on SpaceX, she started to dread taking recruits on tours of its 550,000-square-foot rocket factory.

Putnam Plastics Corporation has developed an advanced tri-layer tubing technology that significantly improves tensile and burst strength, while reducing elongation. Super-Tri tubing is made with a proprietary extrusion process and aids in the prevention of wire lock-up in catheters where guidewires are used.

Master Bond UV15X-6NM-2 is a one component UV curing urethane acrylate system and will be widely used for fiber-optic, optical, electronic, semiconductor, microelectronic and laser applications. It isformulated for a variety of bonding, sealing, coating and encapsulation applications.

Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet (nicknamed Planet Nine) tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the distant solar system. The object has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and, on average, orbits approximately 20 times farther from the Sun than Neptune (which orbits the Sun at an average distance of 2.8bn miles). It would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the Su...

New in the product range of chain manufacturer iwis drive systems Ltd. are corrosion-free CF stainless steel chains. They are exceptionally reliable and durable, and are ideal for use in the food industry and other applications requiring a high level of corrosion resistance. They are made to a high quality, offer excellent performance and value for money and generally the range is available from stock.

Along with the launch of a software update for its Model S electric car, Tesla has accelerated the development of its AutoPilot software to help bring full automation of the company’s cars ever closer.Company Chief Executive Elon Musk recently took to Twitter to appeal for engineers in an effort to increase the AutoPilot software team.

Two major power stations in South Korea have installed Technofast’s innovative hydraulic CamNut EziJac bolting system with outstanding results in both reducing production downtime and improving safety levels for their maintenance engineers.