Electrical/​Electronics

This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.

A solvent leaches cobalt and lithium for reuse from spent batteries.

Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.

These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.

A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.

These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.

These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.

This electronic skin can track heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data.

Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.

Applications include modeling of tidal stress response of icy satellites as well as fatigue of terrestrial ice shelves.

A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.

Load-bearing structures in cars and airplanes could be manufactured from the metal foam.

These louvers provide passive thermal cooling for CubeSats.

Researchers have developed a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery with a cathode that stores the energy produced by a chemical reaction in a metal-oxygen or metal-air battery....

Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are...

A combination of additives shows promise for boosting battery performance in very cold or hot weather.

The nanogenerator also acts as a weather station.

A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings

The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.

Made with “Jenga chemistry,” the material could help in understanding how high-temperature superconductors work.

This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.

This technology provides simultaneous ohmic contacts and the process to make them.

This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.

This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.

This technology could lead to the creation of fully functional quantum computers.

This hands-on, educational tool highlights the properties of SMA wire.

This invention is a highly stable, heat-treatable, and tunable material.

These polymers can combine thermal and optically fixable shape memory.

Squid skin inspires a new material with heat-regulating properties.