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Browse innovative developments in materials and manufacturing that significantly impact military, medical devices, automotive, and industrial manufacturing. Advances in plastics, metals, and composites are transforming 3D printing and rapid prototyping.

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Products: Electronics & Computers
Vision-based 3D printing, network analyzers, particulate sensors, and more.
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Articles: Materials
Surface treatments have limitations that demand attention early in the design process.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
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Briefs: Materials
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturers, medical device companies, and others can use this 3D printing software driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
Additive Manufacturing Method for Sub-Microscale Three-Dimensional Structures
Applications include MEMS, microlattice fabrication, and other sub-microscale 3D structures with a broad range of materials.
Articles: Medical
A wildfire-preventing gel; NASA's 3D tissue models, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
The coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long-lasting for the next generation of electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Materials
The coating protects parking decks, bridges, concrete piers, offshore platforms, buildings, and cooling towers.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These materials can be used in soft robotics, self-healing electronics, and medical devices.
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Briefs: Transportation
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
The electrospun nanofibers are used for wound healing and 3D matrices for biological tissues.
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Briefs: Materials
The new body armor can safeguard against even more powerful firearms during combat.
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Briefs: Energy
A new method provides a more efficient, safer, and cost-effective way to produce cadmium telluride material for solar cells or other applications.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This new 3D printer can print an object the size of an adult human in just a couple of hours.
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Briefs: Materials
These carbon-based fillers can be used in thermally conductive clothing such as liquid-cooled garments.
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Briefs: Materials
The adhesive that binds wet surfaces within seconds could be used to heal wounds or implant medical devices.
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Briefs: Materials
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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Briefs: Information Technology
The newest PLCs can directly access Internet resources, much like a mobile device, to obtain information for improving operations.
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5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The handheld 3D skin printer can deposit sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds
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Briefs: Materials
This imaging technique could impact optical communications and signal processing.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The basis for the technology is a special resin that can be cured with UV light.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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Products: Imaging
Rugged tablets from Teguar Corp. can be used to monitor manufacturing operations.
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NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
Technology used to search for extraterrestrial life can characterize radioactive material.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Bridget Pelaez spoke to Tech Briefs about the 1,000 face shields being printed for Florida hospitals.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See how Prof. Olaf Diegel built a hands-free door opener.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D printing is being used to quickly create life-saving parts and prototypes like masks, shields, and ventilator valves.
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