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Urban Magnetic Fields Reveal Clues about Energy Efficiency, Pollution

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 – Examining a city’s magnetic footprint can be used to monitor the health of those cities, including a possible early warning system for […]

Almost Ready for Prime Time: Deep UV Photodetectors Head to Real-World Testing

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 – Numerous devices and detectors sense and catalog deep ultraviolet frequencies that the Earth’s ozone layer otherwise absorbs. Most solar-blind space-borne imaging platforms […]

Plasma-Based Engineering Creates Contact-Killing, Antifouling, Drug-Release Surfaces

WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 — The deepening concern over antibiotic-resistant infections, coupled with prevailing hospital-acquired infections from surgical tools, implants, and heavily touched surfaces, has ramped up […]

Understanding Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2021 — As the world searches for practical ways to decarbonize our activities and mitigate associated climate change, approaches to alternative energy are hampered […]

Carbon Fibers Electrical Measurements Pave Way for Lightning Strike Protection Technologies

WASHINGTON, September 21, 2021 — Carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite structures are serving an increasingly important role in aerospace, infrastructure, energy generation, and transportation. Yet, the electrical […]

Cylindrical Phononic Crystals Sense Physical, Chemical Properties of Transported Liquids

WASHINGTON, September 14, 2021 – Phononic crystals are an innovative resonant platform for sensing and understanding the volumetric properties of liquids, attracting a growing interest from researchers. […]

Bending Light for Safer Driving; Invisibility Cloaks to Come?

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2021 — Optical cloaking allows objects to be hidden in plain sight or to become invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside the […]

Microwave-Assisted Recording Technology Promises High-Density Hard Disk Performance

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2021 — Researchers at Toshiba Corporation in Japan have studied the operation of a small device fabricated in the write gap of a hard […]

Understanding the Utility of Plasmas for Medical Applications

WASHINGTON, November 24, 2020 — Plasma medicine is an emerging field, as plasmas show promise for use in a wide range of therapies from wound healing to […]