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Articles: Materials
How do we get to a future of self-replicating, Von Neumann space probes? What are some of the steps required to convert the Asteroid Belt into a partial Dyson Sphere? The answer lies in ISAM or in-space servicing assembly and manufacturing, 3D printing on-orbit, and fully automated, ‘lights-out’ production on-Earth.
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Quiz: Materials
Materials science has led to breakthroughs in medicine, renewable energy, and nanotechnology, with the potential for other revolutionary applications. How much do you know about materials science? Find out with this quiz.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
To make fusion power not only physically possible but also economically possible, we need to develop high-performance fusion reactors. However, these reactors call for high-performance materials.
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Q&A: Materials
Professor Stephen Lynch, of Penn State’s College of Engineering, along with colleagues at Michigan State University and the University of Wyoming, have developed a process for 3D printing a high-temperature ceramic gas turbine part.
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Briefs: Materials
Idaho National Laboratory has developed world-class capabilities to help industry design efficient SPS manufacturing processes. The lab’s newest addition makes it possible to manufacture new materials at industrially relevant scales.
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Briefs: Materials
The discovery of a new category of shape-memory materials could open a new range of applications, especially for high-temperature settings.
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Blog: Materials
The new materials are hard enough to stir molten steel and can withstand temperatures above 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit — about the same temperatures found just a few hundred miles above the surface of the sun.
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Facility Focus: Materials
Learn about the technologies being developed at NC State, including vehicle armor, a monitoring patch for plants, and origami-inspired materials.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
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Articles: Materials
Thanos Yiagopoulos, Chief Technology Officer of Momentive Performance Materials, discusses how engineers can determine the best product for their application.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Infrared lens testers, fiber optic transceivers, spectral radiometers, and more.
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Articles: Energy
Silicon Carbide (SiC) optics are becoming more and more prevalent in high-energy laser (HEL) designs, and manufacturers must be aware of the potential risks
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Articles: Materials
A vision-based control algorithm saves a quadrotor after the complete loss of a single motor.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
A bulk metallic glass could slash prices of collaborative robots and lead to advanced 3D-printed metals.
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Articles: Materials
A new generation of lithium-ion batteries is poised to improve electric vehicle range and affordability.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
High-quality coated components can be integrated into complex systems in a sustainable way.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The tough circuits could withstand the grueling demands of energy production, space exploration, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
By introducing defects to a common material, a highly efficient capacitor offers dramatically increased energy density.
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Briefs: Materials
This system enhances processing via real-time, non-destructive defect tracking.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Using gold nanomaterials, this disk can hold data securely for more than 600 years.
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Articles: Energy
A disruptive manufacturing technology now offers reduced manufacturing costs and improved volumetric energy density in all-solid cells.
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Products: Data Acquisition
Vision software, thermal sensors, ceramic pastes, and more.
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Special Reports: Communications
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Optics & Photonics Innovations - January 2021
An ultrafast camera that takes up to one trillion pictures per second...using light alone to levitate objects and propel spacecraft...the groundbreaking optics enabling the world's most powerful...

Products: Materials
Foam gasket tapes, data analytics software, ceramic tape, and more.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A “butter-like” interlayer material boosts current density and increases safety.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Drop-in replacements for lithium ion batteries would not pose a fire danger.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Lithium batteries made using this electrode type could be much safer than typical lithium metal-based batteries.
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