The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, announces that it recently received $3 million in funding to develop two process technologies for production of low-cost titanium powders, from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy and its industrial partners.
Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, Calif., announces that an electronics enclosure fabricated via additive manufacturing will be the first 3D printed part certified for service on a Lockheed Martin military satellite.
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, reports that its researchers have now developed a new way to coat silicon with a layer of protective molecules using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2).
The University of Akron and Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services, Wilmington, Ohio, announce that they have developed supersonic particle deposition, an aircraft repair method for cold spraying metal particles to rebuild the surfaces of corroded and worn parts.
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., announces that its physicists have developed an electron microscope pixel array detector (EMPAD) for scanning transmission electron microscopes that extracts much more information from the image than possible with conventional detectors.
