Category Material

Global Risks & Future Threats, Material, Strategy, Policy & Governance

Growing demand, Strategic importance and scarcity of Rare Earth Elements is driving search for new mitigation strategies

REEs are a series of chemical elements found in the Earth’s crust that are essential components of many technologies, including electronics, computer and communication systems, transportation, health care, and national defense. Rare Earths Elements (REE) are incorporated into many sophisticated…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 24, 2023

Material, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

New materials for Soft Actuators or Artificial muscles enabling life like Soft Robots and augment Soldiers performance

The emerging field of soft robotics aims to improve robot/human interactivity promising to bring robots into all aspects our daily lives, including wearable robotics, surgical robots, micromanipulation, search and rescue, and others. Soft robotics differ from traditional counterparts in some…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 21, 2023

Manufacturing, Material, Mechanical

Thermoplastic Welding for commercial and military aircrafts

The composites industry is constantly being shaped and reshaped by myriad forces – people, markets, technologies – all stimulating innovative new ways to apply fiber-reinforced materials in everything from boats and wind blades to airplanes and automobiles Thermoplastics are…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 5, 2023

Material

Topological materials for Green ICT, spintronics , terahertz and quantum technology

The discovery of topological materials whose properties remain intact even when an object is stretched, twisted or deformed, led to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2016 to F. Duncan M. Haldane, and others. Their topological nature…...

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Rajesh Uppal
April 25, 2023

Material, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy, Weapons & Munitions

Hybrid controllable solid propulsion thruster technology for next generation launch-vehicles and missiles

The function of the propulsion system is to produce thrust, which is the force that moves a rocket through air and space. Different propulsion systems generate thrust in different ways, but always through some application of Newton’s third law of…...

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Rajesh Uppal
April 2, 2023

Air Force & Aviation, Industry & Market Dynamics, Material

Military Aerospace (Aircraft ) materials trends and market growth

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the demand for air travel rose by 7.4% in 2018 from 2017 levels. Air passengers accounted for 81.9% of the load factor on aircrafts, while freight load was 49.3%, the IATA data…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 28, 2023

Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Manufacturing, Material

Manufacturing of Smart multifunctional materials employing Synthetic Biology and DNA

“Smart” materials are an emerging category of multifunctional materials with physical or chemical properties that can be controllably altered in response to an external stimulus. By combining the standard properties of the advanced material with the unique ability to recognize…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 20, 2023

Manufacturing, Material, Nanotech

Smart, Multifunctional and Programmable materials require noval fabrication and 3D printing technologies

Smart materials or Active materials or Functional materials are designed materials that have diverse, dynamic features that enable them to adapt to the environment. They have one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 14, 2023

Material, Quantum

Synthetic diamond with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center a unique material for quantum sensors including magnetic sensing

Quantum technology (QT) applies quantum mechanical properties such as quantum entanglement, quantum superposition, and No-cloning theorem to quantum systems such as atoms, ions, electrons, photons, or molecules. Quantum Sensing exploit high sensitivity of quantum systems to external disturbances to…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 30, 2023

Material, Mechanical, Nanotech

Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) for sensing, displays, portable power generation, energy harvesting, drug delivery and imaging

MEMS is a word used for miniaturized devices that are based on Silicon technology or traditional precision engineering, chemical or mechanical. MEMS stands for MicroElectroMechanical Systems denoting man-made mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics that were produced using microfabrication technology…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 29, 2023