Scientists develop a microscopic heat engine that achieves 100% efficiency, accomplishing what seemed impossible.

The energetic contributions of hydrogen bonding to protein folding are still unclear, despite more than 70 years of study. This is due partly to the difficulty of extracting thermodynamic information ...

SAE International Journal of Engines, Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 2013), pp. 766-776 (11 pages) ABSTRACT A novel combined power and cooling cycle based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) and the Compression ...

How much free energy is irreversibly lost during a thermodynamic process? For deterministic protocols, lower bounds on energy dissipation arise from the thermodynamic friction associated with pushing ...

A tiny, particle-sized engine that runs at temperatures approaching the innermost core of the Sun could open a window into ...

LiquidPiston’s XTS-210 engine is ideal for UAV applications, portable power generation, and other military and defense applications. 1. The XTS-210 employs a high-efficiency hybrid cycle (HEHC). The X ...

Like countless other 19th-century inventors, entrepreneurs, and tinkerers, British engineer James Atkinson sought ways to improve on the Otto four-stroke combustion engine, first produced in 1876. The ...

There aren’t many truly new technologies these days; most build upon existing technologies to a greater or lesser degree. The Maisotsenko Cycle (M-Cycle), from emerging-technology firms Idalex Inc.