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Advancing Ceramic Coatings for Engine Life and Efficiency

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Advancing the efficiency of aircraft engines can be improved significantly by increasing the temperature at which they operate. Engine components today are made...

MRI imaging shows how plants can inspire new engineering materials

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

3-D imaging of plant branching structures is allowing researchers to see how exactly their internal tissues respond under stress, giving new insights into the d...

Sea-based radar market tipped to grow over 10 years

Jun 30, 2015 (UPI)

A 10-year study of the sea-based radar market indicates it will grow to an estimated $13.037 billion, with production accounting for 61 percent of market value....

New conductive ink for electronic apparel

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

University of Tokyo researchers have developed a new ink that can be printed on textiles in a single step to form highly conductive and stretchable connections....

Silica spiky screws could boost industrial coatings, additive manufacturing

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

It took marine sponges millions of years to perfect their spike-like structures, but research mimicking these formations may soon alter how industrial coatings ...

Sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Down at the nanoscale, where objects span just billionths of a meter, the size and shape of a material can often have surprising and powerful electronic and opt...

What your clothes may say about you

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Moving closer to the possibility of "materials that compute" and wearing your computer on your sleeve, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson Schoo...

Research findings point way to designing crack-resistant metals

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Potential solutions to big problems continue to arise from research that is revealing how materials behave at the smallest scales. The results of a new study to...

Physicists fine-tune control of agile exotic materials

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists have found a way to control the length and strength of waves of atomic motion that have promising potential uses such as fine-scale imaging and the t...

Jason-3 Satellite Arrives at California Launch Site

Jun 25, 2015 (JPL)

The Jason-3 satellite has arrived at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, after a journey from France, in preparation for launch Aug. 8, 2015, aboard a Space...

JPL, Caltech Team Up to Tackle Big-Data Projects

Jun 25, 2015 (JPL)

There's a growing need among scientists and engineers for tools that can help them handle, explore and analyze big data. A new collaboration between NASA's Jet ...

Cleaning Up Orbital Debris - Not!

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

There has been a great deal of media coverage regarding orbital debris and its possible removal. As it turns out, there is some good news and some bad news abou...

Mantis shrimp inspires new body armor and football helmet design

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

The mantis shrimp is able to repeatedly pummel the shells of prey using a hammer-like appendage that can withstand rapid-fire blows by neutralizing certain freq...

Aperiodic crystals and beyond

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Once a contradiction in terms, aperiodic crystals show instead that "long-range order" has never been defined. Whatever it means, decades of intense research ha...

Penn research simplifies recycling of rare-earth magnets

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are, as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mining and purifying them is an expensive, labor...

A new look at surface chemistry

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

For the first time in the long and vaunted history of scanning electron microscopy, the unique atomic structure at the surface of a material has been resolved. ...

Speeding Up Synthetic Chemistry

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Synthetic molecules are the foundation for many products critical to the Department of Defense's mission-from active pharmaceutical ingredients found in a medic...

Researchers create transparent, stretchable conductors using nano-accordion structure

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created stretchable, transparent conductors that work because of the structures' "nano-accordion" design. ...

Cellulose from wood can be printed in 3-D

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

A group of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first tim...

Raytheon producing more radars for P-8A Poseidon aircraft

Jun 19, 2015 (UPI)

Littoral and overland surveillance radars for use of P-8A Poseidon aircraft are to be produced by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy under a $153 million award. The con...