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Briefs: Manned Systems
Researchers at NASA Langley are developing polymer coatings that reduce impact ice adhesion strength.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
An MIT-developed heat treatment aims to transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Industrial composite manufacturing is primarily accomplished through three methods: co-cure, co-bond, and secondary bond processes.
Briefs: Design
Researchers have developed a method of imprinting a hidden magnetic tag, encoded with authentication information, within manufactured hardware during the part fabrication process.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors — also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs) — for orbiting spacecraft.
Briefs: Aerospace
Nearly 20 tons of extremely pure borosilicate glass made by Ohara Corporation in Japan are becoming a honeycomb mirror measuring 27.6 feet across.
Briefs: Imaging
The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles.
Briefs: Imaging
Scientists have developed a new characterization tool that allowed them to gain unique insight into a possible alternative material for solar cells.
Briefs: Design
Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics but a challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers have developed a thin, flexible, stretchy sweat sensor that can show the level of glucose, lactate, sodium, or pH of your sweat — at the press of a finger.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor can be stretched up to 50 percent with almost the same sensing performance.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Using a suspended nanowire, a research team has created a tiny sensor that can simultaneously measure electrical and mechanical cellular responses in cardiac tissue — a first.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The research team has been developing very large, detailed models — like their simulations of the San Francisco Bay Area for M7 Hayward fault earthquakes — which has 391 billion model grid points.
Briefs: Energy
A new kind of solar panel has achieved 9 percent efficiency in converting water into hydrogen and oxygen — mimicking a crucial step in natural photosynthesis.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Aluminum formate (ALF) has a talent for separating carbon dioxide from the other gases that commonly fly out of the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants.
Products: Automotive
See what's new on the market in February 2023, including connectors for energy storage systems, power supplies, and more.
Products: Software
A new simulation software that helps engineering teams understand the behavior of systems that are becoming increasingly complex.
Q&A: Materials
Researchers have developed a theory that predicts the limits to which metals can be subjected to cyclic stress before failing.
Briefs: Connectivity
A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity.
Application Briefs: Materials
A novel approach is moving away from conventional structural health monitoring testing methods for inflatable space habitats in favor of using sensors embedded in the flexible structural restraint webbing layers.
NASA Spinoff: Photonics/Optics
After 50 years of NASA’s Landsat, discovery of new commercial and scientific uses is only accelerating.
5 Ws: Motion Control
A team of researchers at Cornell Engineering has developed a soft robot that can detect when and where it was damaged — and then heal itself on the spot.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Organizations in both the public and private sectors are currently racing to launch large numbers of satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO).
Articles: Internet of Things
To ensure networks are prepared for the next wave of transmission, operators need to build wave multiplexing systems that will allow connections to migrate to 100 Gb/s.
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Discussing the basic design concepts of a UV-visible-NIR range microscope-spectrometer in several different configurations.
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This measurement technique is particularly useful for, but not limited to, samples containing organic compounds.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
When measuring with light, the lateral extent of the structures that can be resolved by an optical imaging system is fundamentally diffraction limited.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This technology will pave the way for new applications of integrated semiconductor lasers in LiDAR.
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