Cryo-EM snapshots of the solid-electrolyte interphase, or SEI, reveal its natural swollen state and offer a new approach to lithium-metal battery design. Lithium metal batteries…
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Islands of inactive lithium creep like worms to reconnect with their electrodes, restoring a battery’s capacity and lifespan. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC…
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Researchers have created a machine-learning system that efficiently predicts the future trajectories of multiple road users, like drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians, which could enable an…
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Researchers uncover critical changes in the thermal properties of energy storage devices during operation, paving the way towards better thermal management. Modern energy storage devices,…
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Polaritons offer the best of two very different worlds. These hybrid particles combine light and molecules of organic material, making them ideal energy transfer vessels…
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The intelligent metasurface, AI-empowered artificial material, is a smart platform enabling various functions such as data mining, communication, energy harvest, and sensing by directly processing…
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A new qubit platform: Electrons from a heated light filament (top) land on solid neon (red block), where a single electron (represented as a wave…
View More The Quest for an Ideal Quantum Bit: New Qubit Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing
Researchers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence may be performed using small nanomagnets that interact like neurons in the brain. Researchers have shown it is possible…
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Scientists discovered a strategy to switch the magnetization in thin layers of a ferromagnet, a technique that could eventually lead to the development of more…
View More Mechanism “Splits” Electron Spins in Magnetic Material – Could Enable New Energy-Efficient Memory Devices
Researchers create a mathematical framework to evaluate explanations of machine-learning models and quantify how well people understand them. Credit: MIT News with images from iStockphoto
View More Unpacking Black-Box Models: ExSum Mathematical Framework To Evaluate Explanations of Machine-Learning Models