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Briefs: Materials
The sustainable material offers a zero-waste solution to boost recycling and support the circular economy.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of the trees in the wind.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The long-lasting, environmentally benign fire-retarding treatment, if used on high-risk areas, could dramatically cut the number of fires that occur each year.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The aerogels safely remove contaminants from water without releasing any problematic chemical residue.
Briefs: Materials
These textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing and potentially help patients recovering from post-surgery breathing changes.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Mechanical properties, such as strength and ductility, can be improved for car, plane, and building components.
Briefs: Materials
The coatings eradicated human influenza and coronavirus in five minutes.
Briefs: Energy
This process could improve large touchscreens, LED light panels, and window-mounted infrared solar cells.
Briefs: Energy
Invisibly small nanotubes aligned as fibers and sewn into fabrics can turn heat from the Sun or other sources into energy.
Briefs: Motion Control
This testing method ensures that an exoskeleton and the person wearing it are moving smoothly and in harmony.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material could potentially provide a platform for error-free quantum computing.
Briefs: Energy
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Researchers have created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a...
Articles: Wearables
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Automation can crumble, even when only one cog is loose, says Brad Walters from Monnit.
Products: Test & Measurement
Battery monitoring, flow meters, torque sensors, and more.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
A metal-coated fiber capable of withstands high temperatures.
Blog: Materials
A plastic known as 2DPA-1 is super-strong and super-light.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Do You See Valuable Applications for ‘Meta-Sense?’
A Tech Brief this month highlighted a manufacturing method from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that integrates sensing capabilities into 3D-printed objects.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
A new technology uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed.
Blog: Energy
The two components offer predictable responses that support new robots and new energy-absorbing materials.
Articles: Software
SAE WCX 2022 will convene the engineering community to connect, learn, and collaborate on the biggest issues facing the mobility industry.
Question of the Week: Design
Would You Luge?
Could You Go 90 Miles an Hour in a Luge?
Blog: Test & Measurement
Which machinery requires constant monitoring? According to one industry expert, the answer boils down to “Criticality.”
Podcasts: Software
A new approach to designing luge sleds could help shave off those extra 1/1000 of a second that can be the difference between silver and gold at the Olympics.
NASA Spinoff: Photonics/Optics
NASA’s lighting research gives people on Earth better rest and helps plants grow.
5 Ws: Energy
Learn the Who, What, Where, Why, and When for an ocean battery that holds onto excess energy from offshore wind farms.
Q&A: Photonics/Optics
Dr. Israel Owens and his team at Sandia National Laboratories have used a crystal smaller than a dime and a laser smaller than a shoebox to safely measure 20 million volts without making physical contact to the electrode.
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News: Energy
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
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