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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This system can track the motion of the entire body with a small sensory network.
Briefs: Wearables
The thermoelectric textile produces a small amount of electricity when heated on one side.
Briefs: Materials
Inflatable and deployable beams and masts are often made of polymer composites and may be stored for one to two years in space before deployment.
Briefs: Materials
The discovery of a new category of shape-memory materials could open a new range of applications, especially for high-temperature settings.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
2D materials can be packed together more densely than conventional materials, so they could be used to make devices that run faster and perform better.
Briefs: Materials
Researchers at NASA Langley are developing polymer coatings that reduce impact ice adhesion strength.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
An MIT-developed heat treatment aims to transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Industrial composite manufacturing is primarily accomplished through three methods: co-cure, co-bond, and secondary bond processes.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Scientists have developed a new characterization tool that allowed them to gain unique insight into a possible alternative material for solar cells.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor can be stretched up to 50 percent with almost the same sensing performance.
Briefs: Materials
A new kind of solar panel has achieved 9 percent efficiency in converting water into hydrogen and oxygen — mimicking a crucial step in natural photosynthesis.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers report that automated high-resolution electron imaging can capture the nanoscale deformation events that lead to metal failure and breakage.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The device is 100 percent electrically controllable regarding the colors of light it absorbs, which gives it massive potential for widespread usability.
Briefs: Design
The tool straightens thin, malleable 4-mm metal tubes like those used for fuel, pneumatic, or hydraulic pressurized lines.
Briefs: Energy
The invention consists of several NTAC layers arranged in a radially concentric series separated by a vacuum gap space.
Briefs: Energy
The work could lead to improvements in the energy density of lithium batteries that power electric vehicles.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Ultra-efficient catalysts were developed that are cost-effective to make and simple to scale.
Briefs: Imaging
Researchers at University of Central Florida have developed an artificial intelligence device that mimics the retina of the eye.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Instead of adding soft materials to a rigid robot body, researchers have taken a soft body and added rigid features to key components.
Briefs: Design
NASA has developed a new metal matrix composite (MMC) that can repair itself from large fatigue cracks that occur during the service life of a structure.
Briefs: Design
Manufacturing on Mars with 3D Printing
High-Martian content materials would be useful in making coatings to protect equipment from rust or radiation damage.
Briefs: Materials
Researchers have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any possible shape.
Briefs: Motion Control
Researchers produced a soft, mechanical metamaterial that can “think” about how forces are applied to it and respond via programmed reactions.
Briefs: Energy
Computer-Implemented Energy Depletion Radiation Shielding
Radiation shielding for space as well as some terrestrial applications is challenging due to the wide variety and energy ranges of radiation particles.
Briefs: Communications
This device could pave the way to higher-bandwidth wireless communications.
Briefs: Wearables
The fibers measure subtle and complex fabric deformations.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Since it is a chemical sensor instead of being enzyme-based, the new technology is robust, has a long shelf-life and can be tuned to detect lower glucose concentrations than current systems.
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