Nephila pilipes spider on a web. Credit: Liu et al., Sci. Adv. 2019; 5 : eaau9183 Spider dragline silk exhibits a unique self-powered actuation, controlled simply by tuning relative humidity, ...
Plant engineers at Eskom’s Majuba Power Station in South Africa have been continuously looking for ways to improve efficiency and reliability. The six-unit, 4,000-MW, supercritical coal-fired plant ...
The use of highly precise and continuously modulating actuators – in power stations for example – increases the efficiency of plants and reduces power consumption. The capacity of current new-build ...