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Materials & Manufacturing

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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
These biosensors could lead to improved glucose monitors for millions of people who suffer from diabetes.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Smart adaptive clothing can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology could lead to production of fuels, building materials, and other products in a carbon-neutral way.
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Briefs: Materials
This coating could lead to safely reusable personal protective equipment.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This material could have applications such as mixing and delivery in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These are important traits in electronics and electrical systems including electric cars, industrial drills, and electric grids.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This gel-like material leads a path toward “mechanoceuticals.”
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Briefs: Transportation
The technology could help call attention to important traffic information when it’s dark, with potential benefits for both drivers and pedestrians.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology is useful for energy, industrial, and aerospace applications.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology offers the possibility to both bolster computer power and create smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient computer memory technologies.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
These sensors monitor electrical loads from household appliances to support grid operations.
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Briefs: Materials
The self-adapting material was inspired by how human bone adjusts mineral deposits in response to surrounding environments.
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Briefs: Medical
The removable adhesive could make it easier for surgeons to close up internal wounds.
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Briefs: Wearables
The system looks for chemical indicators found in sweat to give a real-time snapshot of what’s happening inside the body.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor has applications in fields such as robotics, healthcare, and security.
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Briefs: Imaging
Polymer Composite for Radiation Shielding
The polymer composite could replace conventional radiation shielding materials such as lead.
Briefs: Materials
A new CT scan method using intense synchrotron radiation produces higher quality images within milliseconds.
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Briefs: Materials
Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues in China, have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
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Briefs: Materials
This method creates a thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery.
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Briefs: Materials
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
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Briefs: Materials
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
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Briefs: Software
This rapid screening system tests fracture resistance in billions of potential materials.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The new filament allows low-cost printers to produce parts with mechanical properties competitive with injection molded plastics.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The device provides quick results and gives healthcare workers more time to treat patients in hospitals and other settings.
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Briefs: Energy
An automated system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications exist both on Mars and on Earth.
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Briefs: Materials
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: Photonics/Optics
Combined muscles and sensors made from soft materials allow for adaptable robots.
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