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Altair Honors Innovations in Sustainability and Lightweighting
Ford follows up its top prize in last year’s Sustainable Product category – for the Mustang Mach-E – with another electric-vehicle winner, the 2022 F-150 Lightning....
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Metamaterials R&D Targets NVH Abatement
Acoustics engineers have a broad variety of materials from which to choose for reducing noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) in vehicles. But their selection often comes with a measurable...
Briefs Materials
Reconfigurable Electronics Based on Multiferroics and Nanomagnetism
Multifunctional magnetoelectric materials with high exchange represent a missing “holy grail” of materials physics.
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Designing Sensory and Adaptive Composite Materials
Newly developed computational approaches aid in the design of composites that exhibit remarkable abilities to both sense external cues and adapt to these cues in controllable, "programmable" ways.
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Design of New Piezoelectric Composites Using Nanocellulose
Using cellulose crystals as building blocks for the design and development of new low-density functional polymer composites.
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Analysis of Broadband Metamaterial Shielding for Counter-Directed Energy Weapons
Given the importance of electronics in modern warfare, the ability to rapidly develop a counter to such weapons will be essential to sustaining military operations.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Deformation Sensing in Soft Bio-Surrogate Materials
Accurate measurement of deformations occurring within or on soft materials will advance the next class of soft robotics and wearable biomedical sensors.
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JLR Tackles Weight with Structural Electronics
Ashutosh Tomar, electrical research technical manager at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said he has absolute confidence in the game-changing potential of structural electronics (SE) now being...
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Energy Harvesting for Soft-Matter Machines and Electronics
A new class of soft multifunctional materials could be used to convert mechanical deformation from vibrations and stretching into electrical energy.
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Breakthroughs in 3D-Printing Give Way for Promising Textile Lithium Battery Technology
At the convergence of 3D-printing and lithium battery technology, Hong Kong researchers develop a promising textile-based, foldable battery that may...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Phonon Confinement Effect in TiO₂ Nanoparticles as Thermosensor Materials
TiO2 or ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) have a very strong finite-size dependency in their Raman spectra or photoluminescence (PL) spectra due to the phonon...
Technology Update Materials
Altair Optimizes 3D-Printed Structures for Complex, Lightweight Designs
Altair expects to better support the use of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, by releasing new OptiStruct solver capabilities for topology optimization. The...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Biodegradable MEMS Based on Cellulose Paper
Electro-Active Paper(EAPap) has been recognized as a new smart material that can be used for sensors, actuators, biomimetic robots, and smart wallpapers. EAPap is made with cellulose paper by...
Briefs Materials
Composites Containing Nanostructured Shape-Memory Alloys
A continuing program of research is devoted to understanding composite materials that include nanostructured shape-memory alloy (SMA) constituents and to developing methods of fabricating components from such materials. This research is intended to improve the utilization of SMAs in...
Briefs Materials
Polymeric “Smart” Skin Materials
"Smart” skin materials based, variously, on polymers, dendrimers, carbon nanotubes, and/or other tailored molecular components are being developed for use as conformal coating surfaces of mechanical structures, including those of aircraft, to impart enhanced functionality to the coated surfaces. As used...
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