Show Notes January 19, 2024
Story 1: WaterCube: World’s first home air-to-water generator makes 120 gallons a day - ***featured at last week’s CES***
Source: Interesting Engineering Story by Shubhangi Dua
Link: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-first-home-air-to-water-generator
See also https://genesissystems.com/ces-ibs/
See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iwO7Cb1o8A
Story 2: Perovskite LED stack emits light 1000x brighter than regular OLEDs – Key trend, here come PeLEDs!
Source: Optics.org
Link: https://optics.org/news/15/1/8
See also: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/thousand-times-brighter-than-oled-how-cheap-material-bound-to-revolutionize-solar-panels-could-one-day-also-make-your-laptop-display-finally-readable-in-bright-sunlight/ar-AA1mT5Kg
Story 3: World's 1st graphene semiconductor could power future quantum computers - Scientists overcame a limitation in graphene to harness the material as a working semiconductor at terahertz frequencies with 10 times the mobility of silicon.
Source: LiveScience.com
Story by Keumars Afifi-Sabet
Link: https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/worlds-first-graphene-semiconductor-could-power-future-quantum-computers
See also: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06811-0.epdf
Story 4: New analysis of cancer cells identifies 370 targets for smarter, personalized treatments - Cancer drug discovery accelerated as hundreds of overlooked targets prioritized.
Source: News-Medical.net
Story by Communications Team Sanger Institute
Link: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240113/New-analysis-of-cancer-cells-identifies-370-targets-for-smarter-personalized-treatments.aspx
See also: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/cancer-drug-discovery-accelerated-as-hundreds-of-overlooked-targets-prioritised/
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