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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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Special Reports: Energy
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Medical Robotics - November 2020
From the operating room to the assembly line, robots are changing the medical industry. Check out the latest advances and amazing applications in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Medical...

Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Additive Manufacturing - November 2020
AM/3D Printing is fundamentally changing how products are prototyped and produced in aerospace, medical, electronics, and many other fields. To help you keep pace with the latest advances, we present this...

Application Briefs: Imaging
With Nikon's Layer Thickness software module, comprehensive information about a specimen is obtained more quickly than if an operator is making all the measurements by hand.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
A "TPSI" process makes it possible to distinguish between the front and back of optical surfaces, and to characterize the quality of both in a single measurement.
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Briefs: AR/AI
See how tantalum disulfide is supporting new kinds of optics, and potentially new kinds of application for VR and self-driving cars.
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Application Briefs: Materials
Creating next-generation LEDs for novel efforts like COVID-19 decontamination requires LED manufacturers to reevaluate the materials that they’re using.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
See what kinds of applications are possible when you can literally see light propagating through space.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
With low-cost materials called perovskites, stable, continuous lasing is achieved at room temperature for over an hour.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Multi-sensor imaging systems, eyesafe laser finders, machine vision algorithms, and more.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This form of thermal management can help enable untethered, high-powered robots to operate for long periods of time without overheating.
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Briefs: Energy
An environmentally friendly method upcycles carbon dioxide emissions into polymers and other materials.
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Briefs: Wearables
The technology, which could be added to smart watches, could detect the onset of Parkinson’s disease or help with stroke rehabilitation.
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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Once installed at Las Campanas Observatory in the Chilean Andes, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will introduce incredible opportunities for astrophysics.
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Articles: Wearables
A smartwatch that tracks medication levels, a flexible LED, and NASA's "Micro-Organ" device platform.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
VOC sensors, panel-mount connectors, 3D printing cloud software, and more.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The sensors can be built into the shells of aircraft, cars, or other machines.
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Facility Focus: Communications
Learn about RIT's achievements in cybersecurity, imaging science, and personalized healthcare tech.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Using radar commonly deployed to track speeders and fastballs, the automated system “sees” around corners to spot oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This versatile new material family could build realistic prosthetics and futuristic Army platforms.
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Q&A: Materials
A new class of medical instruments uses flexible electronics to improve patient outcomes in minimally invasive surgeries.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The flexible composites can be used as thermal insulation for environments of up to 1200 °C.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Other applications include cosmetics, 3D printing, and drug formulations.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Adaptable automation reduces manufacturing time and costs.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This material could reduce persistent plastic accumulation in the environment.
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Briefs: Energy
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: Imaging
Detector Senses X-Rays Over a Broad Energy Range
New materials generate precise X-ray images with a lower amount of exposure.

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