Materials & Manufacturing

Materials & Coatings

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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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A combination of materials can morph into various shapes before hardening.
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Blog: Materials
An everyday material that we all know well may lead to safer, longer-lasting batteries for the electric vehicle.
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Blog: Design
Duke scientists have created a fabric that releases heat once you start sweating.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The device provides the first step toward ultrasensitive biosensors to detect diseases at the molecular level with near-perfect efficiency.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SensiCut, a smart material-sensing platform for laser cutters, can differentiate among 30 materials commonly found in makerspaces.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This robot can run, jump, carry heavy payloads, and turn on a dime.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An electrically driven soft valve paves the way for fully soft robots.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The flexible, self-healing coating protects buildings, bridges, and anything above or below the water made of steel.
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Briefs: Materials
Biobots based on muscle cells can swim at unprecedented velocities.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The hydrogels can morph multiple times in a preprogrammed or on-demand manner in response to external trigger signals.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Diamonds’ atomic flaws are converted into atomic sensors that watch a quantum world of materials under extreme pressure.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The system creates accurate defect standards for in-situ inspection systems.
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Briefs: Medical
The device combines with body power to treat tendon disease and damage, and sports injuries.
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UpFront: Imaging
Private stations get NASA funding; a camera "sees the unseen," and more.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
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Facility Focus: Energy
Learn about the technologies being developed at NC State, including vehicle armor, a monitoring patch for plants, and origami-inspired materials.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The suit can be controlled with a double tap to the chest or via an app.
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Q&A: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An "E-Skin" material can be printed without polymer binders.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Microwave measurement receivers, oscilloscopes, longwave infrared cameras, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These elastomers have a wide range of uses for the building, automotive, and electronics industries.
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Products: Imaging
Fiber laser machinery, polishing pitch, beam collimators, and more.
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Briefs: Imaging
Researchers from SEAS have found "hidden potential" in metasurfaces.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The Opti-Scan inspection system can measure surfaces and edges in 3D.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Boron is a versatile non-metal element, but until the last five years, chemists have only theorized about the useful properties and applications of two-dimensional (2D)...
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
To enable the development of wearable devices that possess advanced ultraviolet (UV) detection functions, scientists from NTU Singapore have created a new type of light sensor that is...
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Briefs: Materials
This technology improves the detection of low-power far-infrared (FIR) signals.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Comfortable, form-fitting garments could be used to remotely track patients’ health.
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Briefs: Energy
The windows reduce the need for air conditioning and simultaneously generate electricity.
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