NREL publishes research into ‘femtosecond’ laser welding process to improve solar module recycling

PV Tech— The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on laser welding, which could make solar panels easier to recycle.

Phys.org—Research team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits. Researchers interested in improving a given trait in plants can now identify the genes that regulate the trait's expression without doing any experiments.

San Antonio Current—San Antonio researchers land research dollars to improve trauma care using AI. When it comes to trauma care, faster is better. A $1 million grant from an initiative of the University of Texas System to researchers in San Antonio and Tyler aims to speed the time in delivering that care using artificial intelligence. Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio Matrix AI Consortium received the funding from the UT System’s Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative, or TRC₄.

Phys.org—Researchers 'unzip' 2D materials with lasers. In a new paper published on May 1 in the journal Science Advances, researchers at Columbia Engineering used commercially available tabletop lasers to create tiny, atomically sharp nanostructures, or nanopatterns, in samples of a layered 2D material called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN).