August 2021 * Vol. 45 No. 8 Contents Features 8 Products of Tomorrow 14 Connections for Control: Communications Interfaces for Position and Motion Sensors 50 Application Briefs 56 Facility Focus 60 NASA Spinoff: Measuring Moon Dust to Fight Air Pollution Tech Briefs 19 Electrical/Electronics 19 Rad-Hard CMOS Crystal Oscillator 19 Electronic Hardware System Replicates Many Network Architectures 20 Rolled 2D Heterostructures 21 High-Mobility Transport Layer Structures for Rhombohedral Si/Ge/SiGe Devices 22 Lighter Radiation Shielding for Electronics 22 High-Power/Pulsed-Power Electrical Switch 23 High-Temperature Silicon Carbide Op Amps Fabrication 23 Device Powers Wearable Sensors Through Human Motion 24 Heat-Resilient Silver Circuits for Extreme Electronics 24 Graphene " Nano-Origami " Creates Tiny Microchips 25 Materials & Coatings 25 Hybrid Thermoelectric Compound 25 Nanoparticle Gel Unites Oil and Water in ManufacturingFriendly Approach 26 New Spraying Method for Producing Ceramic Coatings 27 Coatings Could Improve Traction on Slick Surfaces 28 High-Pressure Soft Lithography for Microtopographical Patterning of Molded Polymers and Composites 28 Carbon Fiber/Carbon Nanotube Yarn Hybrid Reinforcement 29 Sound Waves Power Advances in Smart Materials 30 Fine-Tuning Alloys for High-Temperature Use 31 Mechanical & Fluid Systems 31 Soft Robotic Gripper Based on Twining Plants 31 Shape Memory Alloy Tubular Structure 32 Periodic Wave Disc Brake Rotor 33 Spacecraft Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Capture via Deposition 33 " Cold Tube " Cools Without Air Conditioning 34 Standard Water Treatment Eliminates Enveloped Viruses Including Coronavirus 35 Tension Element Damping (TED) with Hydraulics for Large Displacements 36 Power & Energy 36 Safer, Longer-Lasting, Solid-State Batteries (Power & Energy continued on page 4) 2 Cov www.techbriefs.com ToC Tech Briefs, August 2021 Departments 6 UpFront 10 5 Ws 12 Q&A 59 Advertisers Index New for Design Engineers 54 New on the Market 10 54 56http://www.techbriefs.com http://www.abpi.net/ntbpdfclicks/l.php?202108MDNAV