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Briefs: Materials
A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.
Briefs: Materials
These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This electronic skin can track heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data.
Briefs: Materials
Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.
Briefs: Automotive
Load-bearing structures in cars and airplanes could be manufactured from the metal foam.
Briefs: Motion Control
These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These louvers provide passive thermal cooling for CubeSats.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Embedded Gas and Temperature Sensors for Extreme Environments
Innovative process control systems for improved efficiency and lower emissions in current and future fossil-fuel-based power systems and related applications require durable, embedded sensor technology that can operate at higher temperatures and in harsh conditions.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings
Briefs: Materials
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
This system uses fiber optic strain sensing to detect and locate micrometeoroid/orbital debris.
Briefs: Materials
Made with “Jenga chemistry,” the material could help in understanding how high-temperature superconductors work.
Briefs: Energy
Potassium-Oxygen Battery Stores Clean Energy
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. The battery could make renewable energy sources like solar and wind more viable options for the power grid...
Briefs: Aerospace
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 driven...
Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This hands-on, educational tool highlights the properties of SMA wire.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology provides simultaneous ohmic contacts and the process to make them.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.
Briefs: Automotive
A combination of additives shows promise for boosting battery performance in very cold or hot weather.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Technique Uses X-Rays to Detect Defective Computer Chips
This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.
Briefs: Automotive
This invention is a highly stable, heat-treatable, and tunable material.
Briefs: Power
The nanogenerator also acts as a weather station.
Briefs: Materials
Optically Fixable Shape Memory Polymers
These polymers can combine thermal and optically fixable shape memory.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology could lead to the creation of fully functional quantum computers.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Heat-Regulating Material for Next-Generation Space Blanket
Squid skin inspires a new material with heat-regulating properties.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Transport Method Boosts Capacity of Heat Exchangers
A simple modification can improve the capability of turbulent heat exchangers by 500%.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Stronger and flexible, polyimide aerogels provide insulation and structural support.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Undercooled metal technology was developed that features liquid metal (in this case, Field's metal, an alloy of bismuth, indium, and tin) trapped below its melting point in polished, oxide...
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