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Access the technical resources for a range of materials and coatings. Design engineers can browse news, technical briefs, and applications for plastics, composites, rubbers, elastomers, and metals.

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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This versatile new material family could build realistic prosthetics and futuristic Army platforms.
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Q&A: RF & Microwave Electronics
A new class of medical instruments uses flexible electronics to improve patient outcomes in minimally invasive surgeries.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The flexible composites can be used as thermal insulation for environments of up to 1200 °C.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The system is effective in urban environments where there are tall buildings on all sides.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material can be used in power electronics and power converters for solar energy power systems.
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Briefs: Materials
Other applications include cosmetics, 3D printing, and drug formulations.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This material could reduce persistent plastic accumulation in the environment.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Printable organic photodiodes can distinguish wavelengths and enable data transmission by light.
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Briefs: Materials
Orange peels are used to extract and reuse metals from lithium-ion batteries to create new batteries.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Detector Senses X-Rays Over a Broad Energy Range
New materials generate precise X-ray images with a lower amount of exposure.
Briefs: Energy
The material can be scaled for use in ultra-efficient, power-dense, electric vehicle traction motors.
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5 Ws: Electronics & Computers
Users can take paper sheets from a notebook and turn them into a music player interface or make food packaging interactive.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The material could be used in smart textiles, medical devices, and tissue engineering.
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Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
For nearly 50 years, engineers in the electronics, aerospace, defense, medical device, and transportation industries have relied on Parylene coatings.
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Articles: Motion Control
Standard commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) connectors continue to be a great resource for quick prototypes and reference designs.
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Briefs: Medical
A soft hydrogel, driven by an oscillatory chemical reaction, produces an autonomous integrated pump for microfluidic applications.
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Briefs: Materials
To make electronic components smaller, semiconductor 2D materials are combined with new types of insulator materials.
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Briefs: Energy
Perovskites could be the active ingredient that makes the next generation of low-cost, efficient, lightweight, and flexible solar cells.
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Briefs: Materials
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
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Briefs: Software
The software assesses the quality of parts in real time, without the need for expensive characterization equipment.
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Briefs: Materials
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Applications include rapid prototyping, medical, aerospace, and automotive.
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5 Ws: Materials
Would you take a walk in biodegradable flip-flops?
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Briefs: Imaging
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
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Briefs: Energy
The technique could enable the printing of circuit boards, electromechanical components, and robots.
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Briefs: Materials
This technology makes it possible to save extensive data in objects such as shirt buttons, water bottles, or the lenses of glasses and then retrieve it years later.
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Briefs: Medical
This technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
Nanowire masks, underwater imaging, and tiny 3D-printed block that repair bone breaks.
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Briefs: Materials
These non-reciprocal devices on a compact chip pave the way for applications from two-way wireless to quantum computing.
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