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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sealing connection tools, oscilloscopes, snap-action switches, and more...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This device could enable rapid, inexpensive liquid biopsies to help detect cancer and develop targeted treatment plans.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
An inexpensive 3D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate away.
Briefs: Aerospace
This diffuser provides double the pumping efficiency in one-quarter the space.
Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
Electronics Design & Assembly - May 2020
The latest advances in chip and board-level design and manufacturing are spotlighted in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology...Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Medical Manufacturing and Outsourcing - May 2020
How are advances in automation/robotics, welding, 3D printing, and other fabrication technologies shaping the future of medical device manufacturing? Find out in this Special Report – a...Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ever since Henry Ford introduced the first moving production line to the industry in 1913, automotive manufacturers have been constantly striving to streamline their processes,...
Question of the Week: Transportation
Will 'Metal-Air Scavengers' Power Vehicles and Robots?
Penn Engineering researchers have introduced a "metal-air scavenger" vehicle, which gets energy not from a battery, but from breaking chemical bonds in the aluminum surface it travels over. The technology, which works like both a battery and an energy harvester, has 13 times more energy density...
Blog: Propulsion
To speed up the design process, researchers from the University of Texas are finding more efficient ways to predict, or "learn," a rocket's behavior.
Blog: Energy
A team at Northwestern University is developing a material so porous that if you were able to unfold a gram of it, you could go farther than a football field.
Question of the Week: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Can Solar-Powered Desalination Solve Water-Scarcity Challenges?
“Seawater is a very abundant resource for clean water, but the problem is how to desalinate it,” MIT researcher Lenan Zhang told Tech Briefs in our April issue.
Products: Transportation
Rugged tablets from Teguar Corp. can be used to monitor manufacturing operations.
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The handheld 3D skin printer can deposit sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds
Briefs: Automotive
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
Briefs: Motion Control
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The electrospun nanofibers are used for wound healing and 3D matrices for biological tissues.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Surface treatments have limitations that demand attention early in the design process.
Briefs: Materials
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
Briefs: Automotive
The coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long-lasting for the next generation of electric vehicles.
Q&A: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Lenan Zhang and his team at MIT developed a small, economical, highly efficient device to provide fresh drinking water using only the Sun for its energy input.
Briefs: Energy
Applications include powering portable electronic devices and sensors, and harvesting waste mechanical energy for aircraft, automobile, and other transportation equipment.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Even though ultrasound has been studied by scientists for many years, its capabilities in practical applications are yet to be fully harnessed.
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.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As advancements in technology continue to define how pneumatic or electromechanical linear devices lift, move, or place a load, the requirements of excellent closed-loop positioning and accuracy greatly increase
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Here's what you'll need to know when you’re choosing an encoder for a motion control system.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Robot-assisted surgery has advanced dramatically over the past decade in almost every surgical sub-specialty. Robot-assisted surgery is usually performed using surgical robot systems that involve...
Top Stories
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Going for Gold in Winter Olympic Curling
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
INSIDER: Design
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Data Acquisition
Blog: Materials
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