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A New Blueprint for Designing High-Performance Batteries

By Michael Matz Cooperative behavior among components in batteries points to an exciting new approach to designing next-generation technologies. A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) Argonne National Laboratory discovered an...

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Closing the Design-to-Manufacturing Gap for Optical Devices

A new method enables optical devices that more closely match their design specifications, boosting accuracy and efficiency. Adam Zewe | MIT News Photolithography involves manipulating light to precisely etch features onto a surface and is commonly used to fabricate...

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The Race to Build the World’s Smallest Atomic Clock, Again

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia National Laboratories will have made one smaller than a sugar cube. But he’s not the...

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