Today's Engineering Newswire looks at dropping bombs for safety, coating batteries for consumption, and saying goodbye to our bearded friend.
A Better Button Battery: To make batteries for safer in case of possible ingestion, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital have created a new coating that prevents them from conducting electricity even after being swallowed.
The coating, quantum tunneling composite, is an off-the-shelf material found in computer keyboards and touchscreens, is usually made of silicone with embedded metal particles.
Droppin’ Bombs for Safety: The Life Extension Program is an initiative by the National Nuclear Security Administration to inspect and update the nation’s inventory of warheads. Earlier this summer Sandia Labs had two successful tests that provided data for the program.
The Critical Radar Arming and Fuzing Test, or CRAFT, was the first flight test of a prototype radar for the W88 ALT 370. This test demonstrated how radar performed during re-entry through plasma generated by the hypersonic speeds. The radar performed as the lab expected after launch on a Trident II missile from a sub.
The Goodbye: We’re a family here at Engineering Newswire, and a few weeks ago, we learned that our tattooed and bearded colleague was headed off to the bigger and brighter, despite my many, many attempts to sway him otherwise. Chris has been here since episode one, and over the years, he’s, well he’s seen some stuff.
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