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Embracing opportunity: additive technology for manufacturing
Dr. Mark Benedict, a senior materials engineer and America Makes Chief Technology Adviser at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate discusses the potential for additive manufacturing of aircraft components in metal. The complex geometry of the rocket nozzle benefits from the use of additive manufacturing due to its complex, specialized design. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Marisa Alia-Novobilski)
Embracing opportunity: additive technology for manufacturing
Dr. Dan Berrigan points to an embedded antenna on an MQ-9 aircraft part made possible through functional applications of additive manufacturing. Flexible circuits, embedded antennas and sensors are just a few of the potential manufacturing capabilities his team is exploring using additive technology. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marisa Alia-Novobilski)
Embracing opportunity: additive technology for manufacturing
Dr. Dan Berrigan, the functional additive manufacturing lead for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, is exploring new ways to add functionality to existing objects through additive manufacturing. Flexible circuits, embedded antennas and sensors are just a few of the potential manufacturing capabilities provided by additive technologies. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marisa Alia-Novobilski)
AFRL researchers improve production of thin, efficient solar cells
The AFRL research team of Dr. Santanu Bag and Dr. Michael Durstock developed a process to create thin, more-efficient, and defect-free transparent solar cells that could open up new possibilities for wearable electronics and other power applications. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Holly Jordan)
AFRL researchers improve production of thin, efficient solar cells
Dr. Santanu Bag holds a thin-film perovskite solar cell developed by the AFRL research team. These transparent and more-efficient solar cells could play an integral role next-generation Air Force power applications. (U.S. Air Force Photo/David Dixon)
‘Speed mentoring’ matches mentors, protégés
Dr. Michael Caton (left), the Assistant Chief Scientist at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, discusses his mentoring philosophy with a potential future mentee. The directorate’s inaugural “speed mentoring” event took concepts from “speed dating” to help match mentors and future mentees for a year-long career enlightening opportunity. (U.S. Air Force photo by Marisa Alia-Novobilski/released)
‘Speed mentoring’ matches mentors, protégés
Dr. Dan Miracle, a senior scientist at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, meets with potential future mentee, Mark Walker (left) during a Speed Mentoring session, Oct. 7. The directorate’s inaugural “speed mentoring” event took concepts from “speed dating” to help match mentors and future mentees for a year-long career enlightening opportunity. (U.S. Air Force photo by Marisa Alia-Novobilski/released)
Future scientists “poster” success at annual RX summer session
Thomas Lockhart (center), Director, AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, and Chad Watchorn (right), Executive Director, Regional STEM Collaborative, speak with interns Connor Eviston and Megan Imel (unpictured), undergraduate students from the University of Cincinnati and Wright State University, respectively, during the 2016 RX Summer Student Poster Session, Aug. 5. Eviston and Imel researched nondestructive evaluation and thermal signals for impact-damaged polymer matrix composites this summer. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marisa Novobilski)
Air Force Research Laboratory discovering what’s “bugging” military aircraft
AFRL Biological Materials and Processing Research Team members perform sample tests of various aircraft locations at the conclusion of the Joint Biological Agent Decontamination System process. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Air Force Research Laboratory discovering what’s “bugging” military aircraft
The AFRL Biological Materials and Processing Research Team collects fuel samples from a storage tank to analyze for potential biocontamination. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Air Force engineer Jennifer Fielding receives special recognition from Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Dr. Jennifer Fielding, Section Chief of Composite Performance and Applications at the Air Force Research Laboratory, received special recognition from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Materials engineer finds second calling as historic novelist
AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate engineer and author TJ Turner signs copies of his first book, Lincoln’s Bodyguard, in April 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lori Hughes)