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Miniaturized Electrospray System
The technology was developed as an alternative to existing options for in-space aeroponic food production applications.

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The Olfactory Factor in AV Interiors
Whether they’re riding in an autonomous shuttle, a transit bus, a train or a rental car, passengers often face cabin air full of “mal odors” — bad smells — including cigarette and vape...

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.

Briefs Medical
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.

R&D Medical
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...

Briefs Photonics/Optics
Upside-Down Design Expands Wide-Spectrum Super-Camera Abilities
Plasmonics is a technology that essentially traps the energy of light in groups of electrons oscillating together on a metal surface.

Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Keeping the Bugs at Bay
With its instant repellency and its ability to repel rather than kill or deactivate pathogens, RepelWrap presents an effective alternative to current technologies.

Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Painting 3D-Printed Objects
Engineers have created a highly effective way to paint complex 3D-printed objects, such as lightweight frames for aircraft and biomedical stents, that could save manufacturers time and money and provide new...

Briefs Medical
Bandage Material Stops Bleeding Without Adhering to the Wound
Researchers have developed a new kind of bandage that helps blood to clot and doesn’t stick to the wound. They tested various superhydrophobic materials — which are, like...

Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Challenges of Coating Aspheric Lenses
Aspheric lenses let optical system designers improve resolution, reduce the number of lens elements required, and increase system light throughput. Their complex, non-spherical surfaces correct for more...

Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Removing Aircraft Paint Using Laser-Equipped Robots
Hexavalent chromium is not a term frequently associated with engineers. Residents of Hinkley, California, however, know all about it. So do workers tasked with the labor-intensive...

Briefs Materials
Material for the Next Generation of Smart Sensors
Scientists have developed color-changing, flexible photonic crystals that could be used to develop sensors that warn when an earthquake might strike next. The wearable, robust, and low-cost...

Briefs Wearables
Detecting Health Markers in Thread-Based, Wearable Sweat Sensors
Engineers have created a flexible electronic sensing patch that can be sewn into clothing to analyze sweat for multiple markers. The patch could be used to diagnose and monitor...

R&D Medical
Lens Offers Tunable Focus
A metasurface lens has been created that uses a piezoelectric thin film to change focal length when a small voltage is applied. Because it is extremely compact and lightweight, the new lens could be useful for...

Briefs Materials
Fast-Acting Molecular Probe
A reversible polymer changes color when it senses a material is about to fail.

Briefs Materials
Metal-Plastic Hybrid 3D Printing
This method prints 3D structures made of metal and plastic, paving the way for 3D electronics.

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Electronic Skin Reacts to Pain
Artificial skin reacts to pain just like real skin, paving the way to better prosthetics, robotics, and noninvasive alternatives to skin grafts.

R&D Medical
New Thermofluidic Improves Lab-On-a-Chip Applications
Researchers have succeeded in moving tiny amounts of liquid at will by remotely heating water over a metal film with a laser.

Briefs Materials
Researchers Develop Ultrathin Films for Stretchable and Sturdy Bioelectronic Membranes
The highly adaptable materials could lead to new classes of wearable devices.

News Materials
3DEO Launches New Metal 3D-Printing Platform
California-based 3DEO unveiled in February its new metal 3D printing platform and patented technology, Saffron. The proprietary platform has been in development for the past five years....

Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
500°C-Rated Optical Fiber for High Temperature Applications
A metal-coated fiber capable of withstands high temperatures.

Articles Materials
Products of Tomorrow
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.

Briefs Materials
Liquid Metal Coating Creates Effective Antiviral, Antimicrobial Fabric
The coatings eradicated human influenza and coronavirus in five minutes.

Briefs Materials
Gel-Like Fluid Prevents Wildfires
The long-lasting, environmentally benign fire-retarding treatment, if used on high-risk areas, could dramatically cut the number of fires that occur each year.

Briefs Medical
Bone Bandage Accelerates Repair
The bandage captures and holds a pro-healing molecule at the site of a bone break to accelerate and improve the natural healing process.

R&D Wearables
Skin Sensors Monitor Health
Skin-sensing wearables coat copper nanowires with graphene oxide.

R&D Materials
Bioactive Coatings Improve Orthopedic Implants
Researchers are working on a coating that mimics bone tissue.

Briefs Materials
Dyeing Process Gives Textiles Electronic Properties
Textiles and items of clothing can be converted into e-textiles without affecting their original properties.

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