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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This gel-like material leads a path toward “mechanoceuticals.”
Briefs: Materials
These are important traits in electronics and electrical systems including electric cars, industrial drills, and electric grids.
Briefs: Materials
This material could have applications such as mixing and delivery in the pharmaceutical industry.
Briefs: Materials
This coating could lead to safely reusable personal protective equipment.
Briefs: Materials
The technology could lead to production of fuels, building materials, and other products in a carbon-neutral way.
Articles: Nanotechnology
A neural stimulator, a battery testing device, and a strain sensor.
Briefs: Communications
Smart adaptive clothing can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates.
NASA Spinoff: Automotive
The NASA-funded nanoparticle lubricant also works in satellites and space vehicles.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Bacteria-Based Hydrogel Beads Clean Up Contaminated Groundwater
Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them can clean up contaminated groundwater for months on end, maintenance-free.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The hydrogel could be made into a contact lens that effectively treats corneal melting.
Briefs: Materials
A new roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
This highly porous sponge absorbs more than 30 times its weight in oil and can be reused up to several dozen times.
Briefs: Energy
Organic Lithium-Powered Batteries
These batteries are more environmentally friendly while retaining performance, stability, and storage capacity.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The technique could easily be translated into existing medical device manufacturing processes for use in orthopedic implants.
Products: Software
Data storage boards, modular plugs, equipment enclosures, and more.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Using ceramic material and graphene, the toughness of solid-state lithium-ion batteries can be doubled.
Briefs: Energy
Lithium batteries made using this electrode type could be much safer than typical lithium metal-based batteries.
Briefs: Energy
The battery design increases the number of possible cycles from tens to more than 100 with little degradation.
Briefs: Energy
Drop-in replacements for lithium ion batteries would not pose a fire danger.
Briefs: Energy
A “butter-like” interlayer material boosts current density and increases safety.
Briefs: Energy
The device brings lithium metal batteries one step closer to commercial viability.
Briefs: Motion Control
A new method manufactures complex shapeshifters for soft robots and biomedical implants.
Briefs: Materials
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
INSIDER: Energy
A new way of making large sheets of high-quality, atomically thin graphene could lead to ultra-lightweight, flexible solar cells, and to new classes of...
Question of the Week: Aerospace
Will Morphing Wings Take Off?
Our lead INSIDER story today showcased a morphing MADCAT aircraft wing.
“From a first glance, it literally doesn’t look like anything that anyone’s ever seen before,” said MIT researcher Ben Jennet in our Here's an Idea episode.
How about you? Will Morphing Wings Take Off?
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ben Jennet is a PhD student at MIT and a former space research fellow at NASA. He is working with NASA to develop a new kind of aircraft wing that's flexible and changes mid-flight.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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....
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA needed help accurately measuring Earth-reflected sunlight.
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
Upcoming Webinars: Motion Control
Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
Podcasts: Defense
A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Streamlining Manufacturing with Integrated Digital Planning and Simulation
On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
