Materials & Coatings

Coatings & Adhesives

Browse the latest news and technical briefs that explore coatings and adhesives. Access the coatings and adhesive applications used in military, aerospace, medical devices, and automotive.

NASA Spinoff: Materials
A coating material developed by NASA for protecting spaceplanes’ heat shields is now being used in high-tech fibers and fabrics.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers have developed a viable dust, water, and ice mitigation optical coating for space flight, aeronautical, and ground applications. The innovation of the LOTUS coating prevents contamination on sensitive surfaces.
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Special Reports: Power
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EV Battery Innovation - November 2023

Read about the latest advances in EV battery testing, fast-charging, materials technology, and much more in this new report brought to you by Battery & Electrification Technology and Automotive...

Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers say that by building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, they have created a very strong material with very low density.
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Briefs: Materials
Scientists at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering have developed a readily scalable method to optimize prelithiation, a process that helps mitigate lithium loss and improves battery life cycles by coating silicon anodes with stabilized lithium metal particles.
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Articles: Materials
See the products of tomorrow, including microscale robots, LOTUS coating, and a wearable e-tattoo.
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Briefs: Materials
An international team of scientists is developing an inkable nanomaterial that they say could one day become a spray-on electronic component for ultra-thin, lightweight, and bendable displays and devices.
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Briefs: Materials
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating – called HOS-PFM – that could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The cellulose nanofiber coating counters bending damage and retains electrode function under water.
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Special Reports: Physical Sciences
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Advanced Materials & Coatings - May 2023

Breakthroughs in plastics, composites, metals, and other materials technologies are enabling exciting new applications in industries ranging from aerospace to automotive to medical. Read more in this...

Briefs: Materials
A new thermal control coating material, developed for use as a coating or rigid tiles, reflects essentially all solar radiation in the space environment.
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Briefs: Materials

Trends in wearable technology follow those of the broader biomedical and electronics industries — devices are getting smaller, smarter, and easier to use. Specifically, wearables...

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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Aerospace & Defense Sensing - April 2023

NASA is applying sensor technologies to create a state-of-the-art dexterous humanoid robot, to monitor the structural health of inflatable habitats designed for Mars, and to test the first...

Quiz: Materials
Did you know that electric vehicles have been around for over a century? Test your knowledge about the history of EVs in this quiz.
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On-Demand Webinars: Materials
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Precision optics are used in a variety of aerospace, industrial, scientific, medical, astronomical, and military applications. In addition to material selection and rigorous design specifications, optical...

Special Reports: Medical
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2023

The first 3D-printed nano-alloy...plasma treatment increases plastic part value 10x...light-powered catalysts aid drug manufacturing...how to build better "soft" robots. Those are just a few...

Videos of the Month: Green Design & Manufacturing
Videos of the month for March 2023.
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On-Demand Webinars: Electronics & Computers
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Conformal coatings play an integral role in the protection of many consumer and industrial electronics, medical device, aerospace, defense, and automotive...

Quiz: Power
Many companies and universities are partnering to develop EV battery-recycling technologies. But can EV batteries be recycled?
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5 Ws: Aerospace
A team of researchers at University of Houston have developed a deicing spray in which detachment can be accurately controlled and accelerated.
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Briefs: Manned Systems
Researchers at NASA Langley are developing polymer coatings that reduce impact ice adhesion strength.
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Blog: Materials
A counterintuitive way to protect atomically thin electronics: adding vibrations to reduce vibration issues.
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Application Briefs: Materials
A novel approach is moving away from conventional structural health monitoring testing methods for inflatable space habitats in favor of using sensors embedded in the flexible structural restraint webbing layers.
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Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
A research team has demonstrated a promising method to easily manufacture self-folding origami honeycomb structures.
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INSIDER: Materials

An interdisciplinary team from Hokkaido University’s Engineering and Agriculture departments and the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) has...

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Facility Focus: Materials
The Florida Institute of Technology is a private research university in Melbourne, FL. The university was founded in 1958 as Brevard Engineering College to support NASA in providing advanced education for professionals working in the space program.
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Articles: Materials
The 3D printing industry has grown quickly over the last decade with average compound annual growth rates of around 27 percent leading to a market size of $17.7 billion in 2022.
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Briefs: Materials
This new approach is useful for building radiation shields via the Z-grading method, the process of layering metal materials with different atomic numbers to provide radiation protection for protons, electrons, and x-rays.
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