Materials & Coatings

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

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Briefs: Software
This rapid screening system tests fracture resistance in billions of potential materials.
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Briefs: AR/AI
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new filament allows low-cost printers to produce parts with mechanical properties competitive with injection molded plastics.
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Briefs: Energy
Scientists have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials widely used in batteries, electronics, and extreme environments....
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Combined muscles and sensors made from soft materials allow for adaptable robots.
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Briefs: Materials
This type of energy source could be the basis for robots that seek out and “eat” metal, breaking down its chemical bonds for energy like humans do with food.
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Briefs: Materials
The new method produces strips of rubbery material that can pick up and release objects.
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Briefs: Imaging
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
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Briefs: Energy
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
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Briefs: Materials
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
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Briefs: Defense
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This technology supports CO2 emissions reduction in cement manufacturing.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
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Briefs: Transportation
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Next-generation devices made with a “peel and stack” method could include electronic chips worn on the skin.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate away.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The material consists solely of components that have already been shown to work well in the body.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
A ceramic sensor could be embedded into structures such as bridges and aircraft to monitor their health.
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Briefs: AR/AI
The AI system can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This on-skin electronic device provides a personal air conditioner without electricity.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material combines two polymers with different properties.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The material could enable applications such as antennas that change frequencies on the fly or gripper arms for delicate or heavy objects.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A liquid crystal elastomer can be programmed to exhibit controllable, dynamic behavior without the need for complex electronic components.
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