Editorial

• Innolith announces non-flammable battery with inorganic electrolyte for grid-scale storage

  Innolith AG, an energy technology company based in Basel, Switzerland and with research facilities in Bruchsal, Germany, has announced the commercialization of its novel inorganic electrolyte technology that it promises will enhance the lifetime of batteries being used for grid-level storage. details>>

• Industry giant De Beers looking towards electronics applications for synthetic diamonds

  De Beers, one of the largest international corporations specializing in diamond exploration, mining, retail, and trading, is looking to expand its synthetic diamond production and targeting high-tech markets, such as blockchain, quantum computing, lasers, and thermal management. details>>

• Porsche engineers new, fast-charging electric pit stop to make electromobility cost-effective

  Porsche Engineering recently announced a new concept that it believes will enhance the cost-effectiveness of electromobility. details>>

• Evoke testing new electric motorcycle batteries for faster charging and greater range

  Beijing, China-based startup Evoke Motorcycles is introducing a faster-charging battery, which the company claims can reach 80 percent of its capacity in just 15 minutes, for its line of electric motorcycles. details>>

• Three Chinese teams competing to build the fastest supercomputer in the world

  According to a report from Science, engineers at the National Supercomputer Center of Tianjin (China) are working to unseat the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory as the fastest supercomputer in the world. details>>

• Article outlines how thermal imaging is used in automotive testing applications

  A recent article posted by Automotive Testing Technology International, and written by Taimen Taylor from FLIR, explained that thermal imaging can be used in a wide range of automotive testing processes from battery and electronics design to vehicle thermal management to tests of the engine, tires, and brakes. details>>

• New, massive HPC system in Houston will include 40,000 servers immersed in coolant

  DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG), an Australia-based geosciences company, has designed a new high-performance computing (HPC) data center hosted at Skybox Houston (Texas) that will consist of more than 40,000 servers, use up to 15 megawatts of power, and is expected to deliver 250 petaflops, with possible expansion to more than an exaflop (one quintillion calculations per second). details>>

• Article explores developments in the thermal management of electric vehicle batteries

  A recent article from Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS), a leading-edge thermal engineering and manufacturing company based in Norwood, Mass., explores recent industry developments in cooling electric vehicle batteries, which is a crucial component to ensuring maximum performance from both the battery and the vehicle. details>>

• Army researcher named Woman Engineer of the Year by ASME Packaging and Photonics Division

  Dr. Lauren Boteler, a thermal and packaging engineer at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Md.) Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, was recently named the Woman Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Electronics Packaging and Photonics Division. details>>

• Article explores one of the oldest unsolved problems in physics - fluid turbulence

  A recent article from ArsTechnica, written by physicist and contributor Lee Phillips, detailed how the concept of fluid turbulence has remained undefined by physicists for more than a century and its complexity remains one of the challenges that engineers face in a number of disciplines, including thermal management. details>>