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5 Ws of a Self-Healing Robot
A team of researchers at Cornell Engineering has developed a soft robot that can detect when and where it was damaged — and then heal itself on the spot.

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Printing Flexible Circuits on Curved Surfaces
Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces.

Briefs Materials
Soft, Mechanical Metamaterials
Researchers produced a soft, mechanical metamaterial that can “think” about how forces are applied to it and respond via programmed reactions.

Briefs Design
Self-Healing Aluminum Metal Matrix Composite
NASA has developed a new metal matrix composite (MMC) that can repair itself from large fatigue cracks that occur during the service life of a structure.

Briefs Materials
Soft but Tough: Biohybrid Material Performs Like Cartilage
Producing biomaterials that match the performance of cartilage and tendons has been an elusive goal for scientists.

Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive Manufacturing Utilizing a Novel In-Line Mixing System for Design of Functionally Graded Ceramic Composites
Exploring the development of a direct ink writing system with multimaterial and in-line mixing capabilities for printing inks composed of high solids-loaded ceramic particulate suspensions.

Briefs Materials
Hierarchical Diamond-Based Ceramic Composites
This research developed and utilized advanced processing, modeling, and micromechanical tools.

Briefs Defense
Biobased Carbon Fibers and Thermosetting Resins for Use in DOD Composites Applications
The aim was to use renewable resources derived from plants and other sources to prepare high-performance carbon fiber and thermosetting matrix resins with high strength and high thermal resistance.

News Energy
Cadillac's Future-Tech Flagship
Restoring the Cadillac brand to its golden-age pinnacle, when it stood equal among Europe’s ultra-luxury greats, has long been an intermittent dream within GM. The grandiose ‘Sixteen’ concept in...

Briefs Materials
High Atomic Number Coatings for Fabrics
This new approach is useful for building radiation shields via the Z-grading method, the process of layering metal materials with different atomic numbers to provide radiation protection for protons, electrons, and x-rays.

Briefs Materials
Achieving Desired Level of Wettability for Unlikely Materials
MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the most unlikely pairings of materials take on a desired level of wettability.

R&D Medical
Thermoresponsive Smart Materials
The researchers used water as the solvent and developed an LCST-type thermoresponsive polymer by adding alkaline earth metal ions — which are divalent cations — to polymers and aqueous solutions.

Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D Printing Materials with Tunable Mechanical Properties
The researchers created these sensing structures using just one material and a single run on a 3D printer.

Briefs Lighting Technology
Tubing Coated with Light-Powered Catalysts Aids Drug Manufacturing
The new class of materials is insoluble, so it can be used over and over again. Such catalysts could be used to coat tubing and perform chemical transformations on reactants as they flow through the tube.

Articles Electronics & Computers
Keeping Your Silicon Cool
Onboard electronics continue to evolve rapidly. Components are smaller. Systems are more complex. The sophisticated electronics components that make up modern vehicles require precision heat dissipation for...

Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Recyclable Feedstocks for Additive Manufacturing
One common limitation of AM has been that produced articles cannot be recycled without substantial energy costs.

Briefs Photonics/Optics
X-Ray Crack Detectability
The models allow users to optimize X-ray radiography setups, for the detection of crack and crack-like flaws, to penetrate various materials to show internal structures of parts.

Articles Materials
Solving Signal Interference Challenges in Aerospace and Defense Electronics
As the complexity of signal challenges in aerospace and defense technology increases, design engineers need to creatively combine materials to solve multiple problems at once.

R&D Materials
Copper Nanowires Combat Spread of Diseases
An ancient metal used for its microbial properties is the basis for a materials-based solution to disinfection. A team of scientists has developed an antimicrobial spray that deposits a layer of...

R&D Wearables
Electrospinning Advantages for Wearable Technology
Researchers have shown that electrospun materials have many advantages over conventional bulk materials for the development of wearables. Electrospun materials’ high surface-to-volume...

Articles Materials
2022 Honda Civic Hatchback Enjoys Premium Assembly, Weight-Cutting Measures
As a veteran manufacturing engineer, Jill Fuel was an ideal choice for the project leader for the production launch of Honda’s 2022 Civic Hatchback at Honda's...

News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...

Articles Design
The Science of Joining Dissimilar Metals in Aerospace Manufacturing
With the industry’s traditional focus on welding and brazing, there has been minimal formal education on diffusion bonding.

Briefs Materials
Material Inspired by Chain Mail Transforms from Flexible to Rigid on Command
Applications include a smart fabric for exoskeletons, an adaptive cast that adjusts its stiffness as an injury heals, or a deployable bridge that could be unrolled and stiffened.

Articles Imaging
Products of Tomorrow
This column presents technologies that have applications in commercial areas, possibly creating the products of tomorrow.

Briefs Materials
Enhanced Material Stable Enough for Solar Cells
A simple change to the surface of perovskite removes a barrier to its functionality.

Briefs Materials
Piezoelectric Material Remains Effective at High Temperatures
The material remains effective as an energy harvester or sensor at temperatures to well above 572°F.

Briefs Materials
Method Pinpoints Microscale Damage in Metal
The process predicts when and where microscopic cracks will occur before they become catastrophic.

Briefs Lighting
Flexible Micro LEDs for Wearables
These micro LEDs can be folded, twisted, cut, and stuck to different surfaces.

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