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Access our comprehensive library of technical briefs on energy, from engineering experts at NASA and major government, university, and commercial laboratories.

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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The size and shape of the nanostructure can be controlled as it is assembled piece by piece.
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Briefs: Energy
The new material could provide efficient and reusable protection from shock, vibration, and explosion.
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Briefs: Energy
This could make possible embedded devices like a spinal cord-stimulating unit with a battery-powered magnetic transmitter on a wearable belt.
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Briefs: Energy
This cell could potentially operate around the clock, balancing the power grid over the day-night cycle.
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Briefs: Energy
The technology harvests electrical energy from waste heat sources.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Injection of air at the trailing edge of a winglet further reduces drag.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
New cell chemistry utilizes less costly and more abundant materials than lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Lighting
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
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Briefs: Transportation
One of the final hurdles to hydrogen power is securing a safe method for detecting hydrogen leaks.
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Briefs: Transportation
The technology could help computers process visual information more like the human brain.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The reusable mask would include a heated copper mesh powered by a battery and surrounded by insulating neoprene.
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Briefs: Energy
Artificial intelligence is used to decode X-ray images faster, which could aid innovations in medicine, materials, and energy.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Due to the chemical stability and durability of industrial polymers, plastic waste does not easily degrade in landfills and is often burned, which produces carbon dioxide and other hazardous gases. In order...
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Briefs: Power
This additively manufactured alloy is tailored for high-temperature applications.
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Briefs: Materials
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method increases burn rate of solid propellants.
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Briefs: Propulsion
The proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent.
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Briefs: Power
Thrusters based on magnetic reconnection could complete long-distance missions in a shorter period of time.
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Briefs: Materials
Bioinspired cellulose nanofibrils can be controlled by electricity.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology provides highly efficient grid-scale electricity storage at a fifth of the cost of current storage technologies.
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Briefs: Transportation
The cathodes could enhance energy density of next-generation Li-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Materials
The alloy could influence the way energy storage devices are designed and manufactured.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Shape and environment can cause materials to move without motors or hands.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The alloy has applications in jet turbine disks and other high-stress and/or high-temperature environments.
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Briefs: Energy
A new electrocatalyst efficiently converts carbon dioxide into ethanol.
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Briefs: Materials
The energy storage device can store a charge up to 900 times greater than state-of-the-art supercapacitors.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
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Briefs: IoMT
The device recharges the internal battery of implants without invasive surgery.
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