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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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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn how to outfit your equipment with sensors.
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Articles: Software
Drive and control platforms provide the vital protection of people and machines in automated manufacturing efforts.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Motion controllers, electric cylinders, cobot brakes, and more.
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Articles: Motion Control
Learn seven key design considerations for implementing electrohydraulic valves.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new printing method coaxes particles and droplets into precise patterns using the power of sound.
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Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Metamaterial printing, high-efficiency solar cells, and a noise-reduction material.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Growing large-area graphene on optical substrates enables use in photonics devices.
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5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The process produces rapid, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly material.
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Briefs: Materials
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings (FROCs) can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
With this advance, so-called “flextronics” move closer to reality.
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Briefs: Energy
A new anode for aqueous batteries uses seawater as an electrolyte.
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Briefs: Automotive
The technology could be key to lighter, less expensive, and long-lasting batteries for future electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This component takes up ten times less space on computer chips.
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Briefs: Software
Modern PLCs now include IT-capable software and communications protocols, empowering users to easily access edge-sourced data and integrate it with the enterprise.
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Briefs: Energy
High-voltage direct current cables can more efficiently transport electricity over long distances.
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NASA Spinoff: Materials
A bulk metallic glass could slash prices of collaborative robots and lead to advanced 3D-printed metals.
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UpFront: Energy
NASA reveals winners of a CO2 conversion challenge.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The protective coating works like body armor for the atomically thin materials.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The approach achieves near 100% light emission efficiency at all brightness levels.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The method could be applied to carbon waste streams.
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Briefs: Imaging
The ultrathin magnet could advance new applications in computing and electronics.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The system could one day replace LiDAR and cameras in automated manufacturing, biomedical imaging, and autonomous driving.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This combination of technologies could enable developments for many optical applications.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The compact instrument measures thermal conductivity of materials at below ambient temperatures.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
To enable the development of wearable devices that possess advanced ultraviolet (UV) detection functions, scientists have created a new type of light sensor that is both flexible and highly sensitive.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Vibration-absorbing resonators could better soundproof walls and make vehicles more streamlined.
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Application Briefs: Aerospace
Ewellix (Gothenburg, Sweden) has developed a planetary roller screw that's now on Mars.
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Briefs: Materials
The tiny motors mimic how rock climbers navigate inclines.
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