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Briefs: Energy
The patch could serve as a personal thermostat and save energy.
Q&A: Materials
An adhesive can be deactivated by applying a small voltage.
Articles: Test & Measurement
Taking a holistic approach to sealing systems in hydraulic systems using chrome alternatives helps engineers achieve optimum function.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The right sensors can cut machine building costs, improve flexibility, and boost customer satisfaction.
Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
Briefs: Materials
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
Briefs: Materials
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
Briefs: Materials
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
5 Ws: Materials
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
Briefs: Materials
This technology supports CO2 emissions reduction in cement manufacturing.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
Articles: Materials
Tech Briefs posed questions to 3D printing/AM industry execs, to get their views on issues like metal printing, new materials, and environmental sustainability.
Q&A: Materials
A new process will reduce the cost of manufacturing graphene by a factor of more than 100.
Application Briefs: Materials
With the recent boom in touch-based, polymer display substrates must be fingerprint-resistant.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
A ceramic sensor could be embedded into structures such as bridges and aircraft to monitor their health.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate away.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The material combines two polymers with different properties.
Briefs: Materials
The material consists solely of components that have already been shown to work well in the body.
Briefs: Materials
The material could enable applications such as antennas that change frequencies on the fly or gripper arms for delicate or heavy objects.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A liquid crystal elastomer can be programmed to exhibit controllable, dynamic behavior without the need for complex electronic components.
Briefs: Aerospace
This new design could conserve energy used for defrosting airplanes, appliances, and more.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces may enable better biomedical sensors and implants.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
It can be used both in small, portable devices for field inspections and in very large detectors that use arrays of crystals.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules.
Briefs: Materials
The coating protects parking decks, bridges, concrete piers, offshore platforms, buildings, and cooling towers.
Briefs: Materials
These materials can be used in soft robotics, self-healing electronics, and medical devices.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The electrospun nanofibers are used for wound healing and 3D matrices for biological tissues.
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