A recent study in Engineering presents LearningEMS, a unified framework and open-source benchmark for electric vehicle (EV) energy management. It offers a platform to compare multiple EMS algorithms, evaluate their performance from various aspects, and aims to optimize EV energy efficiency.

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing techniques, finding the right manufacturing conditions has required extensive testing and fine-tuning.

What if these parts could be built more quickly, stronger and with near-perfect precision?

A team comprising experts from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering is leveraging artificial intelligence to make that a reality. They’ve identified processing techniques that improve both the speed of production and the strength of these advanced materials — an advance with implications from the deep sea to outer space.

In an impressive breakthrough in surface science, a novel method has been developed to simulate and visualize the local dipole moments on the semiconductor surface using scanning nonlinear dielectric microscopy (SNDM) paired with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. This study, led by researchers Akira Sumiyoshi, Kohei Yamasue, Yasuo Cho, and Jun Nakamura, not only enhances the understanding of surface dielectric properties but also holds promising implications for future semiconductor device engineering and material science applications.

A research team from Taiyuan University of Technology and Zhejiang University has made headway in enhancing polypropylene (PP)’s performance. Their study, published in Engineering, reveals that blending PP with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polystyrene–polyethylene–polypropylene–polystyrene (SEPS) to form a SEPS@HDPE core–shell structure can adjust PP’s brittle–ductile transition temperature and improve its low-temperature toughness, with potential applications across various industries.

The new Horizon Europe project VALOR aims to empower actors to better understand their relationship with pollinators.