NASA Tech Briefs’ Materials Web page spotlights new engineering materials, coatings, and materials processing techniques, related primarily to ceramics, composites, plastics, and ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as published in NASA Tech Briefs magazine. The Tech Briefs describe applications of these materials in aerospace, defense, electronics, automotive, consumer products, and other major industries. Many of the Tech Briefs below are correlated to a Technical Support Package (TSP) or White Paper that can be downloaded free of charge.
Nov 2008
NASA Challenges Students to Design a Supersonic Airliner
A new NASA competition
challenges high school and
college students to research
and design a small, supersonic
airliner that could enter
commercial service in the
next decade. During the
2008-2009 academic year,
individuals and teams of
high school students will prepare
well-documented short papers describing what needs to be accomplished
to make supersonic flight available to commercial passengers by
2020. Advanced-curriculum ...
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NASA and Ocean Tomo Establish Groundbreaking Partnership to Commercialize NASA Technologies
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt,
MD) and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Ocean Tomo, LLC
(Chicago, IL), announced a partnership to commercialize
NASA-funded technologies. The partnership
will focus on maximizing the value of
NASA Goddard inventions by facilitating transfer
of over 40 technologies to the ...
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Aug 2008
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Jul 2008
This Month in NASA History“Create the Future” and Win
Jun 2008
NASA Goddard Enters the World of Online GamingThis Month in NASA History
May 2008
This Month in NASA HistoryFlexible Silicon Circuits Conform to Complex Shapes
Apr 2008
2007 Product of the Year WinnersThis Month in NASA History
Mar 2008
Energy-Efficient Microchip for Long-Lasting Cell Phones and Medical DevicesThis Month in NASA History
Feb 2008
This Month in NASA HistoryCorrection of Retardation and Autism in Mice Points to Human Treatment
Jan 2008
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Last Chance to Design and Win!Sep 2007
New Technology Enables Development of “Smart” Medical DevicesAug 2007
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