Creating robust, reliable, and often unique medical equipment and devices falls to a team of designers and engineers at the Mayo Clinic. The lessons they’ve learned can be applied to solving other engineering problems.

Hokkaido University researchers built a photoelectrode that works over a broad range of wavelengths to gain an order of magnitude improvement over previous efforts.

Smaller, lighter lithium ion batteries are supplanting traditional lead acid batteries in the uninterruptible power system business.

Reaching the next stage of lithium battery development requires innovation and new techniques from materials engineers and scientists.