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Briefs: Materials
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
Briefs: Materials
This rapid screening system tests fracture resistance in billions of potential materials.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Briefs: Materials
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In the operating room, you can produce bioresorbable metal implants, such as screws for bone fractures.
Briefs: Materials
This method creates a thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery.
Briefs: Lighting
Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues in China, have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
Briefs: Materials
A new CT scan method using intense synchrotron radiation produces higher quality images within milliseconds.
Technology Leaders: Materials
Highly technical glass-ceramic delivers optical precision at nanometer scale.
Technology Leaders: Materials
Make sure the polished optic meets the requirement of a particular application.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Although perovskites are a promising alternative to silicon for solar cells, new manufacturing processes are needed to make them practical for commercial production. To help fill...
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will More Manufacturers Go With Metal 3D Printing?
Our most recent issue of Tech Briefs featured a roundtable discussion about the future of 3D printing. The industry pros, including Stratsys Direct Manufacturing CEO Kent Firestone, spoke about how metal additive manufacturing has yet to catch on, due to cost constraints and build limitations. That...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology supports CO2 emissions reduction in cement manufacturing.
5 Ws: Materials
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
Products: Materials
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
Briefs: Energy
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
Briefs: Materials
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
Briefs: Materials
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
Briefs: Energy
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
Briefs: Materials
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
Briefs: Imaging
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Wool from special sheep keeps astronauts and emergency responders safe.
Articles: Energy
Nature-Inspired Energy Tech, Superelastic Tires, Wearable Supercapacitors, and more...
Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Briefs: Motion Control
The new method produces strips of rubbery material that can pick up and release objects.
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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
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