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Briefs: Wearables
Artificial skin reacts to pain just like real skin, paving the way to better prosthetics, robotics, and noninvasive alternatives to skin grafts.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
A metal-coated fiber capable of withstands high temperatures.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.
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Briefs: Materials
The coatings eradicated human influenza and coronavirus in five minutes.
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Briefs: Materials
The long-lasting, environmentally benign fire-retarding treatment, if used on high-risk areas, could dramatically cut the number of fires that occur each year.
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Briefs: Materials
The bandage captures and holds a pro-healing molecule at the site of a bone break to accelerate and improve the natural healing process.
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Briefs: Wearables
Textiles and items of clothing can be converted into e-textiles without affecting their original properties.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Flexible electrodes, NASA sensors, and anti-corrosion compounds.
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Briefs: Materials
The flexible, self-healing coating protects buildings, bridges, and anything above or below the water made of steel.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Holographic lenses render visible and infrared starlight into either a focused image or a spectrum.
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Q&A: Materials
An "E-Skin" material can be printed without polymer binders.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The film monitors how well aircraft and spacecraft withstand the mechanical stresses of flight.
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Briefs: Energy
Polymer cores redirect light from any source to solar cells.
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Q&A: Energy

Jingcheng Ma, along with a team of researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, found a way to make ultra-thin water-resistant surface coatings robust enough to...

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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The third flight of SLS and Orion will carry the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Directly visualizing external stresses of plastics is useful in development of materials with improved mechanical properties.
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Articles: Propulsion
With the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, NASA will return humans to the lunar surface.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Articles: Nanotechnology
Nanotube fibers that turn heat to power; a NASA antenna system; and an antimicrobial coating.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings (FROCs) can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A bulk metallic glass could slash prices of collaborative robots and lead to advanced 3D-printed metals.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The approach achieves near 100% light emission efficiency at all brightness levels.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The protective coating works like body armor for the atomically thin materials.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The method could be applied to carbon waste streams.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
With an optical microscope, spectra can be acquired from a sample area smaller than a micron.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
For applications requiring high-energy material deposition coatings, you'll need to understand how stress can impact surface figure and system performance.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These tactile imaging sensors can measure pressure distribution without using pressure-sensitive materials.
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