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Briefs: Propulsion
Thrusters based on magnetic reconnection could complete long-distance missions in a shorter period of time.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These 6 advancements are leading us to cleaner, faster aircraft.
Briefs: Aerospace
The proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent.
Briefs: Propulsion
This method increases burn rate of solid propellants.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This additively manufactured alloy is tailored for high-temperature applications.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Learn about the benefits of SWIR imaging, from food inspection to surveillance.
Blog: Transportation
Tech Briefs readers ask a series of questions about the future of plastics in battery electric vehicles.
Blog: Materials
Researchers from Cornell University have redesigned the battery so that aluminum more easily integrates into a battery's electrodes.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will Underwater Exploration Go Battery-Free?
A Tech Brief featured in our April issue highlighted a battery-free pinpointing system from MIT called Underwater Backscatter Localization. Rather than emitting its own acoustic signals, the “UBL” reflects modulated signals from its environment. The reflections provide researchers with positioning...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This composite can be used in lithium metal batteries.
Briefs: Energy
These robust supercapacitors still work when stretched to eight times their original size.
Briefs: Energy
Biofuels can achieve cost parity with petroleum fuels.
Briefs: Imaging
The micro-display could enable smartphones and televisions with resolutions of more than 10,000 pixels per inch.
Briefs: Energy
The device recharges the internal battery of implants without invasive surgery.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Applications include spectroscopy and LiDAR.
Facility Focus: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
See the advanced materials, complex systems, and bioengineering technologies being created at Cornell.
Briefs: Materials
The energy storage device can store a charge up to 900 times greater than state-of-the-art supercapacitors.
Briefs: Energy
A new electrocatalyst efficiently converts carbon dioxide into ethanol.
Briefs: Energy
The alloy has applications in jet turbine disks and other high-stress and/or high-temperature environments.
Products: Materials
Displacement sensors, metal 3D printers, shielding materials, and more.
Q&A: Energy
Professor Qiaoqiang Gan of the University at Buffalo (NY) and his team developed a unique two-in-one system that uses solar energy for simultaneously cooling and heating — without electricity.
Briefs: Motion Control
Shape and environment can cause materials to move without motors or hands.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
You have the power. That's the idea behind a "wearable microgrid" from the University of California San Diego that harvest and stores energy from your body to power electronics.
INSIDER: Energy
Rice University engineers have suggested a colorful solution to next-generation energy collection: Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) in your windows. The team designed and built...
INSIDER: Wearables
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new, low-cost, wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery. The device is stretchy enough that you can wear it like a...
INSIDER: Materials
Scientists at University of California, Davis, have proposed a solution to dendrite growth in rechargeable lithium metal batteries using microfluidics. The group proved that flowing ions near...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Range anxiety, the fear of running out of power before being able to recharge an electric vehicle, may be a thing of the past, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are...
Top Stories
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Turning Edible Fungi into Organic Memristors
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Revolutionizing the Production of Semiconductor Chips
News: Energy
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Webcasts
On-Demand Webinars: Power
E/E Architecture Redefined: Building Smarter, Safer, and Scalable Vehicles
Upcoming Webinars: Energy
Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
Upcoming Webinars: Electronics & Computers
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive...
Upcoming Webinars: Automotive
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
Upcoming Webinars: Power
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Podcasts: Defense
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