Tag: Advanced Materials
Welding thermoplastic composites
Unlike composites made with a thermoset matrix, thermoplastic composites (TPCs) require neither complex chemical reactions nor lengthy curing processes. Thermoplastic prepregs require no refrigeration,...
AWACS maintainers at leading edge of 3-D printing
Imagine you’re in aircraft maintenance and a mission is scheduled to fly in the next 24 hours. You need a part that hasn’t been...
IBM – A new brain-inspired architecture could improve how computers handle...
IBM RESEARCHERS DESIGNED A NEW COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE WITH CO-LOCATED MEMORY AND PROCESSING. IN STUDIES, THEIR PROTOTYPE RAN 200 TIMES FASTER THAN CONVENTIONAL COMPUTERS.
IBM researchers...
Biosensor ‘bandage’ collects and analyzes sweat
Like other biofluids, sweat contains a wealth of information about what’s going on inside the body. However, collecting the fluid for analysis, usually by...
3D Universe Introduces Skin Tone Filaments for 3D Printed Prosthetics
As the e-NABLE Community has grown and spread throughout the world, we have not only gotten to see the impact that low cost, 3D...
A Revolutionary Change in Vehicle Panel Production featuring Sabic’s UDMAX™ Thermoplastic...
SABIC announced at JEC World 2019 a new, cutting-edge technology for producing lightweight, cost-effective and recyclable vehicle panels using its UDMAX™ tape, a unidirectional,...
Engineering 3-D mesostructures with mechanically active materials
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have expansive applications in biotechnology and advanced engineering with growing interest in materials science and engineering due to their potential in...
Shake, rattle, and roll to high efficiency photovoltaics
New insight into how a certain class of photovoltaic materials allows efficient conversion of sunlight into electricity could position these materials to replace traditional...
A self-powered heart monitor taped to the skin
Scientists have developed a human-friendly, ultra-flexible organic sensor powered by sunlight, which acts as a self-powered heart monitor. Previously, they developed a flexible photovoltaic...
kinetiX—designing auxetic-inspired deformable material structures
This paper describes a group of auxetic-inspired material structures that can transform into various shapes upon compression. We developed four cellular-based material structure units...
