Materials, structures, energy, robotics and computing.
Professor Guoyao Yu's team built a hybrid thermoacoustic electric generator with its gas spring placed after the displacer, achieving high electric power and efficiency suited to space power systems.
Jui-Hsiung Liu's team made highly hydroxylated hafnium clusters that act as EUV photoresists, printing high-resolution patterns with much lower light doses than earlier materials required.
Dr. Xiangpeng Meng and Dr. Xinshu Gong found that digital transformation at listed Chinese manufacturers was linked to greater innovation output, partly through lower internal and external transaction costs.
Dr. Sayan Das's team made a non-flammable quasi-solid electrolyte from coated nonwoven mask fabric that let a sodium metal battery keep nearly all its capacity over long cycling.
Sinqobile Nene's team found in simulations and prototype tests that switching several capacitor coupled substations on or off caused only negligible, short-lived disturbances on a transmission network.
Dr. Sandra Correia's team showed that lanthanide-based coatings converting ultraviolet light improved the performance of large silicon solar cells intended for powering spacecraft.
Dr. Reinhard Honegger's team puts Euler–Bernoulli beam bending vibrations on a rigorous Hilbert space footing, securing the eigenspectra that engineers usually take for granted in numerical analysis.
Professor Edwin Garabitos Lara's team monitored household appliances in an apartment over several months, producing a dataset of how each draws power to guide solar and efficiency planning.
Dr. Florian Neukart sets out a phased blueprint for a sustainable Mars settlement that relies on local resources, such as sulfur-based concrete, and reusable rockets to cut costs.
Professor Ercang Luo's team built a heat-driven thermoacoustic cooler with a bypass design that manages energy flow, reaching efficiency that outperforms many existing heat-driven cooling technologies.
Andrés Montero's team modelled a large transformer and found that refilling it with natural ester oil reshapes its internal electric field, easing stress in some areas but narrowing safety margins in others.
Dr. Emilio Piesciorovsky's team built a substation grid test bed showing that blockchain ledger technology can securely record data for fault detection, power quality monitoring and distributed energy resources.
