July 2021 * Vol. 45 No. 7 Contents Features 8 Products of Tomorrow 12 What Does Resolution Mean in 3D Printing? 17 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Getting Specific About Where 3D Printing Hits the Mark 51 Facility Focus 56 NASA Spinoff: Taking Out the Trash, NASA-Style Tech Briefs 20 Aeronautics 20 Method Detects Onset of Destructive Oscillations in Aircraft Turbines 20 Insect-Sized Agile Drones 22 Drones Use Machine Learning to Detect Landmines 23 GPS-Enhanced Onboard Navigation System (GEONS) 24 High-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Monitoring Meteorological Parameters 25 Winglet with Injected Flow 26 Materials & Coatings 26 Copolyimide Surface-Modifying Coating 26 Alkaline Hydrogel Advances Skin Wound Care 27 Liquid Metal Lattice 28 High-Performance, Energy-Absorbing Material 28 Generation of Polystyrene Latex Spheres with Incorporated Fluorescent Dyes 29 Designing Soft Materials That Mimic Biological Functions 30 Nature-Inspired, Manufactured, Non-Cuttable Material 31 Manufacturing & Prototyping 31 Overhang Support Designs for Powder-Based Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) 31 Eco-Friendly Technique Upcycles Metal Waste into Multipurpose Aerogels 32 System for In-Situ Defect Detection in Composites During Cure 33 Light-Based " Tractor Beam " Assembles Materials at the Nanoscale 34 Green Method for Producing Hydrogen Peroxide 35 Ultra-Thin, Energy-Efficient Photodetector Integrated with Gorilla Glass 36 Robotics & Automation 36 Servo Motion Improves Robot Operations 37 In-Line, Automated CT Scan Data Inspection of Electronic Connectors (Robotics & Automation continued on page 4) 2 Cov www.techbriefs.com ToC Tech Briefs, July 2021 New for Design Engineers 49 New on the Market 51 12 49 Departments 6 UpFront 10 5 Ws 11 Q&A 55 Advertisers Indexhttp://www.techbriefs.com http://www.abpi.net/ntbpdfclicks/l.php?202107TBNAV