Materials & Coatings

Ceramics

Explore a range of articles, technical briefs, and news covering ceramic materials used in military, aerospace, medical devices, and automotive applications.

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Articles: Materials
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: Design
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: Materials
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
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Articles: Aerospace
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: Materials
Infrared lens testers, fiber optic transceivers, spectral radiometers, and more.
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Articles: Materials
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: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A bulk metallic glass could slash prices of collaborative robots and lead to advanced 3D-printed metals.
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Articles: Energy
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: Aerospace
The tough circuits could withstand the grueling demands of energy production, space exploration, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
By introducing defects to a common material, a highly efficient capacitor offers dramatically increased energy density.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This system enhances processing via real-time, non-destructive defect tracking.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Vision software, thermal sensors, ceramic pastes, and more.
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Foam gasket tapes, data analytics software, ceramic tape, and more.
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Briefs: Imaging
Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector.
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Briefs: Materials
A “butter-like” interlayer material boosts current density and increases safety.
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Briefs: Energy
Drop-in replacements for lithium ion batteries would not pose a fire danger.
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Briefs: Transportation
Lithium batteries made using this electrode type could be much safer than typical lithium metal-based batteries.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Using ceramic material and graphene, the toughness of solid-state lithium-ion batteries can be doubled.
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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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