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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The nanothin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies, and even deliver pacemakers powered by heartbeats.
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Briefs: Wearables
The test can simultaneously diagnose cases, track variants, and detect co-infections.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology could benefit firefighters, miners, the military, plumbers, and households.
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Briefs: Wearables
The smartphone-based device could reduce the pressure on testing laboratories during a pandemic.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This testing method ensures that an exoskeleton and the person wearing it are moving smoothly and in harmony.
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Briefs: Wearables
The test uses a smartphone microscope and could deliver results in about 10 minutes.
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Briefs: Materials
Invisibly small nanotubes aligned as fibers and sewn into fabrics can turn heat from the Sun or other sources into energy.
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Briefs: Materials
This process could improve large touchscreens, LED light panels, and window-mounted infrared solar cells.
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Briefs: Materials
The coatings eradicated human influenza and coronavirus in five minutes.
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Briefs: Materials
Mechanical properties, such as strength and ductility, can be improved for car, plane, and building components.
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Briefs: Wearables
These textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing and potentially help patients recovering from post-surgery breathing changes.
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Briefs: Manned Systems
This scalable power processing unit (PPU) is for use with low-power Hall effect thrusters.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A new catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost of the process.
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Briefs: Energy
The system could allow for flight speeds of Mach 6 to 17 and would have applications in air and space travel.
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Briefs: Imaging
The engine could make rockets not only more fuel-efficient, but also more lightweight and less complicated to construct.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This system would extend the life of CubeSat satellites.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The aerogels safely remove contaminants from water without releasing any problematic chemical residue.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
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
This remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of the trees in the wind.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The sustainable material offers a zero-waste solution to boost recycling and support the circular economy.
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Briefs: Energy
Carbon nanotubes are used to create solar cells with unprecedented flexibility and resistance.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A method converts cotton into sugar, which can be turned into spandex, nylon, or ethanol.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The handheld printer deposits sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds and its bio-ink accelerates healing.
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Briefs: Wearables
The patch enables unobtrusive drug delivery through the skin for the management of skin cancers.
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Briefs: Medical
The tool diagnoses a stroke based on abnormalities in a person’s speech and facial movements.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
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Briefs: Medical
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: Medical
3D bioprinting using bioink from engineered stem cells enables treatment of myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases.
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Briefs: Wearables
The mobile phone app enables regular monitoring of glucose levels in people with diabetes.
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