Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Tech Briefs’ Manufacturing & Prototyping Web page spotlights advances in manufacturing and fabrication processes, rapid prototyping, and digital prototyping, as published in NASA Tech Briefs magazine. Many of the Tech Briefs below are correlated to a Technical Support Package (TSP) or White Paper that can be downloaded free of charge.
Capillography of Mats of Nanofibers
These mats can be the basis of small devices and instruments.
Capillography (from the Latin capillus, “hair”, and the Greek graphein, “to write”) is a recently conceived technique for forming mats of nanofibers into useful patterns. The concept was inspired by experiments on carpetlike mats of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Capillography may have the potential to be ...
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Compact hermetic joint is formed to seal connectorized all-fiber gas reference cell.
An improved packaging approach has been devised for filling a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber (HC-PCF) with a gas, sealing the HC-PCF to retain the gas, and providing for optical connections and, optionally, a plumbing fitting ...
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This innovation forms a sprayable polymer film using powdered precursor materials and an in-process heating method. This device directly applies a powdered polymer onto a substrate to form an adherent, mechanically-sound, and thickness-regulated film. The process can be used to lay down both fully dense and porous, e.g., foam, ...
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Heat Transfer Analysis for Optimizing Solar Cell Casting Equipment
Improved Probe for Evaluating Compaction of Mold Sand
Fabricating Nanodots Using Lift-Off of a Nanopore Template
Making Complex Electrically Conductive Patterns on Cloth
Embossed Teflon AF Laminate Membrane Microfluidic Diaphragm Valves
Fabricating High-Resolution X-Ray Collimators
Gimballed Shoulders for Friction Stir Welding
Dog-Bone Horns for Piezoelectric Ultrasonic/Sonic Actuators
Electrophoretic Deposition on Porous Non-Conductors
Hydrogen Peroxide Concentrator
