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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A skin-like device can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to speak.
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Briefs: Wearables
The wearable antenna bends, stretches, and compresses without compromising function.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new imaging method allows researchers to see inside complex semiconductors, without destroying them.
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Briefs: Materials
The new battery is degradable, recyclable, non-toxic, and safer than lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
The membrane prevents dendrite formation, at least doubling the lifetime of a lithium-metal battery.
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Briefs: Energy
The battery can withstand thousands of charge and discharge cycles and years of storage before being composted.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An entire 20-story concrete building could store energy like a giant battery.
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Briefs: Energy
The rechargeable batteries could be a safer and more environmentally friendly alternative to lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
A connection between electricity and mechanical motion in soft, rubber-like materials could improve robot range.
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Briefs: Energy
The tough circuits could withstand the grueling demands of energy production, space exploration, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The Battery Identity Global Passport could be accessible as a scannable QR code or a computer chip.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology can be used for large production volumes such as fuel-cell-powered vehicles.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This invention enables improved carrier mobility for solar cells and other electronic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
High-quality coated components can be integrated into complex systems in a sustainable way.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material sets the stage for new forms of electric power in the future.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Chilled panels use less energy than conventional A/C and work in open spaces.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This novel gel-creation method could open applications in water filtration, batteries, and smart windows.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A triboelectric generator made of flexible circuit boards creates electricity when the wearer moves.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The organic composite material is soft, stretchable, and has good thermoelectric properties for many wearable applications.
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Briefs: Energy
Applications include wind turbines, solar arrays, commercial space mobile launchers, and industrial process stacks and equipment.
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Briefs: Materials
The battery is smaller than a traditional lithium-ion battery due to the elimination of dendrites.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The circuitry uses race logic to solve complex problems with a minimum expenditure of energy.
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Briefs: Materials
These organic solar cells can be useful where constant, low power generation is sufficient.
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Briefs: Energy
By introducing defects to a common material, a highly efficient capacitor offers dramatically increased energy density.
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Briefs: Automotive
Solid-state batteries offer a higher level of safety and potentially longer life than lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
A flexible device worn on the wrist harvests heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
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Briefs: Energy
An enhanced polymer could be used for more energy-efficient systems with a smaller carbon footprint.
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Briefs: Energy
This portable method could enable hospitals to make their own supply of the disinfectant on demand and at lower cost.
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Briefs: Energy
The carbon fiber serves as the electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material.
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