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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Designed to assist in robotic surgeries, biomedical devices can be printed in and on the human body.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These biosensors could lead to improved glucose monitors for millions of people who suffer from diabetes.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These sensors monitor electrical loads from household appliances to support grid operations.
Products: Software
Altair released updates to all of its design, simulation, and data analytics software products.
Facility Focus: Imaging
NIBIB is committed to integrating the physical and engineering sciences with the life sciences to advance basic research and medical care.
5 Ws: Lighting
In the operating room, you can produce bioresorbable metal implants, such as screws for bone fractures.
Briefs: Materials
The new filament allows low-cost printers to produce parts with mechanical properties competitive with injection molded plastics.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA's Dry Goods Delivery System, a lung-heart sensor on a chip, and more.
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....
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Do You See Yourself Someday Printing in 4D?
You’ve heard about 3D printing, but what about 4D?
A Tech Briefs TV video this week showcased how Rice University researchers’ new way of making shape-shifting materials. The “4D-printed” objects can be manipulated to take on alternate forms when exposed to changes in temperature, stress, or...
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will More Manufacturers Go With Metal 3D Printing?
Our most recent issue of Tech Briefs featured a roundtable discussion about the future of 3D printing. The industry pros, including Stratsys Direct Manufacturing CEO Kent Firestone, spoke about how metal additive manufacturing has yet to catch on, due to cost constraints and build limitations. That...
Facility Focus: Aerospace
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will ‘Flexoskeletons’ Catch On?
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have found a new way to make soft, flexible, 3D-printed robots. The “flexoskeletons” are both made of a rigid material and a thin sheet of polycarbonate that acts as a flexible base. Watch the demo on Tech Briefs TV.
What do you think? Will...
Articles: Aerospace
Tech Briefs posed questions to 3D printing/AM industry execs, to get their views on issues like metal printing, new materials, and environmental sustainability.
Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion
The material consists solely of components that have already been shown to work well in the body.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The material combines two polymers with different properties.
Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
Medical Manufacturing and Outsourcing - May 2020
How are advances in automation/robotics, welding, 3D printing, and other fabrication technologies shaping the future of medical device manufacturing? Find out in this Special Report – a...Products: Electronics & Computers
Vision-based 3D printing, network analyzers, particulate sensors, and more.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturers, medical device companies, and others can use this 3D printing software driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
Briefs: Materials
Additive Manufacturing Method for Sub-Microscale Three-Dimensional Structures
Applications include MEMS, microlattice fabrication, and other sub-microscale 3D structures with a broad range of materials.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This new 3D printer can print an object the size of an adult human in just a couple of hours.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The electrospun nanofibers are used for wound healing and 3D matrices for biological tissues.
5 Ws: Materials
The handheld 3D skin printer can deposit sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The basis for the technology is a special resin that can be cured with UV light.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Bridget Pelaez spoke to Tech Briefs about the 1,000 face shields being printed for Florida hospitals.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See how Prof. Olaf Diegel built a hands-free door opener.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D printing is being used to quickly create life-saving parts and prototypes like masks, shields, and ventilator valves.
Articles: Test & Measurement
There are longwave, midwave, and shortwave camera systems—each with its own advantages for specific industries and uses.
Application Briefs: Materials
nTopologyNew York, NY
In today’s strategic information environment, the ability to rapidly respond to ever-changing technology needs is an essential asset for any organization that provides...
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
News: Energy
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Energy
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
Blog: Communications
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
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