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minus-squarelowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 days agoAgreed, got very MIT ‘WaterSeer’ vibes from this…
minus-squareprime_number_314159@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoWaterSeer was initially somehow related to some part of UC Berkeley, rather than MIT. You may be thinking of this device: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30444-X … Or the metal oxide framework predecessor to it, or the newer thing that uses some sort of gel. I’m not aware of a commercial product based on this work.
minus-squarelowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days ago UC Berkeley I stand corrected, you are right. All the links I bookmarked 404 now but it was a UC Burkely funded project. https://scet.berkeley.edu/vici-labs-collider-project/ https://scet.berkeley.edu/waterseer-collider-winners-announced/ Thank you for correcting the record.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orgMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·4 days agoI can’t find any relation between WaterSeer and MIT. And unlike WaterSeer, this was published as a peer-reviewed Nature paper in Oct 2024.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·4 days agoIts its coming from MIT, it deserves an extra pass of scrutiny.
Agreed, got very MIT ‘WaterSeer’ vibes from this…
WaterSeer was initially somehow related to some part of UC Berkeley, rather than MIT.
You may be thinking of this device: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30444-X
… Or the metal oxide framework predecessor to it, or the newer thing that uses some sort of gel.
I’m not aware of a commercial product based on this work.
I stand corrected, you are right. All the links I bookmarked 404 now but it was a UC Burkely funded project.
https://scet.berkeley.edu/vici-labs-collider-project/ https://scet.berkeley.edu/waterseer-collider-winners-announced/
Thank you for correcting the record.
I can’t find any relation between WaterSeer and MIT. And unlike WaterSeer, this was published as a peer-reviewed Nature paper in Oct 2024.
Its its coming from MIT, it deserves an extra pass of scrutiny.