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Briefs: Materials
These carbon-based fillers can be used in thermally conductive clothing such as liquid-cooled garments.
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Briefs: Materials
The new body armor can safeguard against even more powerful firearms during combat.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
Technology used to search for extraterrestrial life can characterize radioactive material.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The basis for the technology is a special resin that can be cured with UV light.
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Briefs: Materials
This cost-saving piping insulation has uses in refrigerated containers that protect food, medicine, and other perishables.
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Briefs: Aerospace
These materials can be used in aerospace vehicles, automobiles, clothing, helmets, and chemical sensors.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These thin films hold great promise for solar cells and LEDs.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Titanium-copper alloys for 3D printing could create high-performance alloys for medical device and aerospace applications.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This system protects workers on lightning and telecommunications towers, and on oil and gas platforms.
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Briefs: Materials
The coating can prevent the transfer of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and other bacteria in settings ranging from hospitals to kitchens.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In the past 15 years, Renee Bernstein doubled the growth of her company by focusing her attention to research and product development.
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Q&A: Materials
David Kaplan is solidifying silk to make products like rods and plates for medical implants.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This new understanding can help chip manufacturers find ways to better diffuse the heat that leads to device damage and decreased device lifespans.
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Briefs: Energy
An engineered surface treatment can reduce waste and improve efficiency in many processes.
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Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Learn about the latest measurement technology designed to ensure accurate testing of helical compression and extension springs.
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Q&A: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Drexel Professor Genevieve Dion is coating yarn with the highly conductive, two-dimensional material MXene.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This process turns carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes with small diameters.
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Briefs: Materials
These materials may replace metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, computers, cellphones, and refrigerators.
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Briefs: Materials
These soft robots can be rolled up and carried in a pocket.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hybrid organic-inorganic materials transfer ultra-small, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
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Briefs: Materials
The films could be used in impact-resistant glazing, windscreens, and displays.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Equipment-free textile detectors could be used in public health, workplace safety, military, and rescue applications.
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Articles: Software
See how software supported the design of an advanced antenna.
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Q&A: RF & Microwave Electronics
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
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