Important Innovations Collection

MIT & Lamborghini's New Breakthrough Technologies                                                                 Source:  Lamborghini & MIT Lamborghini-MIT Terzo Millennio Concept Car Two global innovation leaders - MIT and Lamborghini - have joined forces to develop breakthrough automotive technologies.  What they are developing is really BIG.  They are developing the capability of automotive regeneration, meaning the car self-heals or self-repairs itself.  In fact, the two have created a concept car that includes self-healing:  The Terzo Millennio or Third Millennium concept car. Tech Details MIT and Lamborghini started work on the Terzo Project in 2016. By 2030, they are expected to reach maturity and unveil the world's first fully developed self-healing car,...

Big Discovery by MIT Engineers                                                                           Source:  MIT No Wires or Battery Needed MIT engineers have discovered a brand new way of generating electricity.  They're using tiny carbon particles that create an electric current by interacting with their liquid environment of an organic solvent.  The particles are made of crushed carbon nanotubes (blue in the image) coated with a teflon-like polymer (green). The MIT researchers say the current can power micro or nanoscale robots and can also be used to trigger chemical reactions.  Their process of generating electricity is completely new and innovative.  All that is necessary is to surround the carbon particles with the solvent.  It g...

New Innovation from German-French Collaboration Source:  Fraunhofer Efficiency Potential 25% Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer ISE and the French Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have invented an ultra slim and more efficient solar cell.  The researchers have trapped sunlight in a solar cell by incorporating an absorbing material on a nanostructured back mirror.  The cell's efficiency is 20% and the scientists believe they can slim it down further and increase efficiency to 25% in the short term. Nanostructures Up until this breakthrough, state of the art solar cells required layers of semiconductors at least one micrometer thick.  The team says controlling the fabrication process of the patterned mirror at the nanometer scale is the key to their breakthrough.  The mirror traps the light in an absorber and improves optical absorption and efficiency.  The team is looking to put the new solar cells into large scale production.  Their...