Every 4700 flight hours, every U-2 reconnaissance plane is disassembled and inspected part by part, including more than 40,000 rivets and 1800 individual parts, and then reassembled by Lockheed Martin technicians.
Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels.
Puris LLC, Bruceton Mills, W. Va., recently signed a limited (partially) exclusive, term license agreement with NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland to produce a high-performance alloy enhanced with hafnium 60NiTi(Hf) that will be marketed under the brand name SM-103TM.
A new class of superhydrophobic materials mimics one of the planet’s most water-repelling surfaces: the lotus leaf. The material is inexpensive, nontoxic, and can be applied to a variety of surfaces via spray- or spin-coating. The hydrocarbon-based material may be a “green” replacement for costly, hazardous fluorocarbons commonly used for superhydrophobic applications, says Andrew Barron, […]
A research effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder to develop an inexpensive, “do-it-yourself” coating to retrofit energy-inefficient windows in residential and commercial buildings has been given a $4 million boost over three years by the U.S. Department of Energy.
