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Briefs: Transportation
The technology could help call attention to important traffic information when it’s dark, with potential benefits for both drivers and pedestrians.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This technology is useful for energy, industrial, and aerospace applications.
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
MIT researchers are developing a shoe coating that provides a stronger grip on ice and other slippery surfaces.
Briefs: Medical
The removable adhesive could make it easier for surgeons to close up internal wounds.
Briefs: Materials
The system looks for chemical indicators found in sweat to give a real-time snapshot of what’s happening inside the body.
Briefs: Software
This rapid screening system tests fracture resistance in billions of potential materials.
Q&A: Semiconductors & ICs
An adhesive can be deactivated by applying a small voltage.
Articles: Materials
Taking a holistic approach to sealing systems in hydraulic systems using chrome alternatives helps engineers achieve optimum function.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new method produces strips of rubbery material that can pick up and release objects.
Briefs: Materials
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
5 Ws: Medical
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
Question of the Week: Materials
How Would You Use Gecko-Inspired Adhesion?
A team at Georgia Tech has discovered a Velcro-like way of mass-producing gecko-inspired adhesives. Principal investigator Prof. Michael Varenberg believes his team’s technology can someday be used on pick-and-place industrial machines, wall-scaling cleaners, and even small repair robots that travel on...
Blog: Materials
A team at Georgia Tech has discovered a Velcro-like way of mass-producing gecko-inspired adhesives.
Application Briefs: Materials
With the recent boom in touch-based, polymer display substrates must be fingerprint-resistant.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Surface treatments have limitations that demand attention early in the design process.
Briefs: Transportation
The coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long-lasting for the next generation of electric vehicles.
Briefs: Materials
The coating protects parking decks, bridges, concrete piers, offshore platforms, buildings, and cooling towers.
Briefs: Materials
The adhesive that binds wet surfaces within seconds could be used to heal wounds or implant medical devices.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
These thin films hold great promise for solar cells and LEDs.
Briefs: Materials
The coating can prevent the transfer of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and other bacteria in settings ranging from hospitals to kitchens.
Articles: Materials
Biodegradable batteries, solid-state ultracapacitors, and infrared camouflage.
Briefs: Materials
An engineered surface treatment can reduce waste and improve efficiency in many processes.
Question of the Week: Materials
Will Cooling Coatings Catch On?
This month’s Tech Briefs featured a potential alternative to the air conditioner: A painted-on polymer coating that can cool down a building.
Facility Focus: Data Acquisition
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
Q&A: Wearables
Drexel Professor Genevieve Dion is coating yarn with the highly conductive, two-dimensional material MXene.
Special Reports: Automotive
Advanced Materials - February 2020
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 Special...Briefs: Materials
These materials may replace metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, computers, cellphones, and refrigerators.
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