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US Navy Synthesizes Slime to Assist Military Personnel
A team of U.S. Navy scientists and engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) have successfully re-created a natural material used for marine wildlife...
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Advances in Lightweight Electronics Protection
Lightweighting continues to be a key topic for the aerospace, avionics and defense industries as new metals and composites are being integrated into end products and assemblies with the goal of...
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New Ice-Repellant Material Could Improve Aviation Safety
Icy conditions can be deadly when flying into bad weather. Researchers at the University of Houston have discovered a material that can be applied to any surface to repel ice. The...
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‘Nano-Kebab’ Fabric Breaks Down Chemical Warfare Agents
Researchers have created a fabric material containing nanoscale fibers that are capable of degrading chemical warfare agents (CWAs). Uniform coatings of metal-organic frameworks...
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NASA’s Pressure-Sensitive Paint Tests Aircraft Designs
NASA’s bright pink Pressure-Sensitive Paint (PSP) is helping to test new aircraft designs. A thin coat of PSP is sprayed onto the model that will be tested in the wind tunnel and...
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Dual-Function Aircraft De-Icer Also Prevents Freezing
Rice University scientists have advanced their graphene-based de-icer to serve a dual purpose. The new material still melts ice from wings and wires when conditions get too cold, but if...
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Researchers Improve Decontamination Criteria for Combat-Vehicle Coatings
When it comes to protecting warfighters from exposure to chemical agents that have contaminated combat vehicles, determining how much agent gets absorbed into the...
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New Material Eliminates the Need for Aircraft Deicers
Scientists have developed a liquid-like substance that can make aircraft wings and other surfaces so slippery that ice cannot adhere. The slick substance is secreted from a film on the...
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NASA Tests Aircraft Wing Coatings that Slough Bug Guts
Bug guts create drag, and drag increases fuel consumption. But aircraft of the future could be made more fuel-efficient with non-stick coatings NASA recently tested on Boeing’s...
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Jet Aviation Basel Gains DGCA Approval from India for Dassault Aircraft
Jet Aviation Basel recently received CAR-145 approval from the Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA) in India to provide full maintenance services to Indian-registered...
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Carbon-Fiber Concept Trailer From Great Dane Cuts Weight by 4000 lb
The Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience is a prototype tractor-trailer developed to demonstrate the possibilities of future transport, and the truck is not the only place where innovation reigns. The trailer body is built almost exclusively with carbon fiber, and it incorporates...
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Continuous Sputter Deposition Coating of Long Monofilaments
A thin, uniform coating on long segments of monofilament could drastically improve the functionality of many complex fibers. A length of fishing line, microtubing, or polylactic acid...
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Hydrolytic Stability of Polyurethane-Coated Fabrics Used for Collapsible Fuel Storage Containers
Collapsible fabric fuel tanks have provided critical tactical bulk petroleum storage for military operations for over 50 years. Beginning in the...
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Development of Hydrophobic Coatings for Water-Repellent Surfaces Using Hybrid Methodology
Coatings that impart hydrophobic properties are of considerable interest. For applications such as aircraft windows, optical components, protective...
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Improved Howitzer Spindle Coating Will Improve Performance, Save Money
The efforts of U.S. Army engineers to implement an improved coating for howitzer breech spindles will provide several benefits, including easing the logistical burden on...
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Aircraft Engine Coating Could Triple Service Life and Save Fuel
Researchers at University West in Sweden are using nanoparticles in the heat-insulating surface layer that protects aircraft engines from heat. In tests, this increased the service...
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Hydrophobic Coatings
Boyd Coatings Research Co. (Hudson, MA) has developed the CRC 6000-line Hydrophobic Coating, a customized coating used primarily on radomes, satellite dishes and other communication installations to prevent water film from...
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Quasicrystalline Aircraft Coating Shows Promise for Cookware, Prosthetics
A technology initially designed to lubricate aircraft parts could lead to more durable nonstick cookware and prosthetic bone-repair implants.
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AR Coatings for Optical Fibers
Laser Components (Hudson, NH) offers both assembled cables, including coated fibers, and job coatings on fibers supplied by the customer. They also offer anti-reflection coatings, which significantly reduce...
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Functionalized Silk Materials
T he goal of this work was to exploit the novel structural, physical, and biological features of silk proteins towards functionalization of materials systems generated from this family of protein. A new generation of functional silk systems is sought to provide novel materials with precise control of material features....
Tech Transfer Reports Materials
Polymer Coating Material Limits Computer Damage Caused by Vibrations
Cornerstone Research Group (Dayton, OH) has developed an organic, polymer-based material that can be directly applied to any circuit board — as well as other metal- and...
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Low-Water-Permeability Encapsulants for Acoustic Sensors
Afamily of improved encapsulating materials for protecting underwater acoustic sensors has been invented. These materials could also be used for encapsulation or protective coating of...
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Nonchromated Treatment for Aluminum Surfaces
AFRL scientists and engineers recently completed development of a nonchromated treatment for aluminum aircraft surfaces and structures. The new treatment method is the result of a collaborative...
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Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposite Materials
AFRL scientists have developed a method for uniformly dispersing carbon nanofibers throughout polymeric materials to increase their conductivity. Engineers will be able to employ the resulting...
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