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AFRL equipment donation helps prepare emerging STEM workforce

From left: Miami University students Carter Wade, Lakshan Don Manuwelge Don, Nate Price and Dr. Joseph Perry Corbett, test the newly installed ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on, May 30, 2024. The microscope was donated by the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate to the Corbett Research Group as part of a recently signed Educational Partnership Agreement with Miami University. Corbett, who leads the group, is an assistant professor of physics at Miami University, and is a former AFRL materials research scientist. (Courtesy photo / Rannet Manning)

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AFRL receives $4M grant to build Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Center

This rendering shows the location of the new AIMR-2C, or Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Center Capability Project, adjacent to the main entrance of building 653 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The AIMR-2C will be a 6,000-square-foot lab space dedicated to interactive data visualization which was made possible by a $4 million Office of Secretary of Defense Centralized Laboratory Investment Program award. (U.S. Air Force illustration)

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AFRL revives Scanning Electron Microscope Educators program

Students from Baker Middle School in Fairborn, Ohio, learn about and use a scanning electron microscope, or SEM, as part of the Scanning Electron Microscope Educators, or SEMEDS, program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The after-school program gives area middle and high school students a rare opportunity to experience firsthand what it's like to use a $500,000 SEM to explore a wide-variety of unique and everyday specimens. The program was recently revived after a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo / Terrance Auster)

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AFRL’s scientific achievement award winners guest star on Lab Life podcast

Dr. Matthew Dickerson and Dr. Lisa Rueschhoff of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory are the featured guests on episode 74 of the “Lab Life” Podcast titled “Hot Topics in Ceramics.” (U.S. Air Force photo illustration)

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AFRL successfully field-tests AI robot to improve DAF manufacturing capability

A multidisciplinary development team, comprised of Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, depot, industry and academia representatives, observes the successful first demonstration of an autonomous robotic incremental metal forming prototype, nicknamed AI-FORGE, at Warner-Robins Air Logistics Complex, Georgia, in late January 2023. Personnel from AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Ohio State University, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute, Yaskawa Motoman, and CapSen Robotics collaborated to develop the robotic blacksmithing system, which uses incremental forming, a heat-assisted metalworking process that permits users to manufacture small lots of customized manufactured parts for military aircraft. During its initial test run, the artificially intelligent system operated autonomously without human interruption for over six hours.

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AFRL re-ups affiliation with longtime liquid crystal industry partner to meet DOD needs

The image depicts AlphaMicron Inc., or AMI’s prototype progression over the course of 20 years. AMI’s first dimming proof of principle prototype from 1997 was eventually integrated into a Full Complex Curvature Helmet F-35 Visor prototype for the U.S. Department of the Air Force in 2017 to help mitigate pilots’ difficulties managing light transmission during flight. The initial collaboration between AFRL and AMI resulted in the creation of e-Tint, an electronic tint-on-demand liquid crystal technology that can be applied to flexible plastic substrates, such as pilot visors, instead of traditional glass. e-Tint switches from clear to dark faster than an eye can blink — about 0.1 of a second— and is fail-safe in a power outage. This technology was used to create the world's first electronic switchable eyewear which was field tested by the U.S. Army and is now being issued to soldiers through the Approved Protective Eyewear List.  In addition to current applications, the technology is being developed for augmented reality applications and see-through displays, where simultaneously controlling ambient and display light is important, said AMI’s Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Bahman Taheri.(U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL re-ups affiliation with longtime liquid crystal industry partner to meet DOD needs

The graphic illustrates how reorienting liquid crystal (yellow) causes dichroic dye (red) to reorient along with it, which changes the transmission of light. In 1997, the U.S. Department of the Air Force identified a need for controlling visor tint in pilot eyewear. Visor tint was affected by light transmission when pilots would go above or below the clouds, as sudden washes of intense sunlight mid-flight impacted their ability to read and track the data on their aircraft-mounted and head-mounted displays. To address this safety issue, AFRL partnered with Kent State University-based AlphaMicron Inc., or AMI, a global leader in liquid crystal technology, to find a solution based on AMI’s proprietary polarizer-free, guest-host liquid crystal system known as e-Tint. AMI’s Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Bahman Taheri likens this system to a molecular version of a Venetian blind. (Courtesy photo / AlphaMicron Inc.)

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AFRL researchers contribute to prestigious scientific journal ACS Nano

The graphic illustrates how the high-energy electron beam from a scanning electron microscope is used to functionalize transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs. Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, researchers from the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate contributed this work to the February 2023 ACS Nano publication “Precision Modification of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides via Environmental E‑Beam Patterning.” TMDs are a specific class of two-dimensional layered materials essential for the development of emerging sensing and electronic technologies for the Department of the Air Force and commercial market. The example shows hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms as they are added to TMD atomic layers consisting of sulfur (S), selenium (Se), Molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W) to functionalize them. The electron beam removes atoms from the TMD, causing a chemical reaction that emits light and heat which can be harnessed for use in sensing and other technologies. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

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AFRL researchers contribute to prestigious scientific journal ACS Nano

The image depicts a novel precision patterning method using the United States Department of the Air Force emblem on monolayer MoSe2, a two-dimensional material made of atomic layers. Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, researchers from the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate contributed this work to the February 2023 ACS Nano publication “Precision Modification of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides via Environmental E‑Beam Patterning.” The publication introduced an innovative process of altering and tailoring the optoelectronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs. Researchers can control and manipulate the atomic properties of these materials to draw lines, shapes and desired patterns to demonstrate how the material’s thermal and optical properties can be manipulated for sensing and other technologies. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

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US Rep. Mike Turner visits Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, tours AFRL facility

Air Force Research Laboratory’s, or AFRL, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Director Darrell K. Phillipson, left, stands with Congressman Mike Turner at the Wright Brothers Institute in Riverside, Ohio, Feb. 13, 2023. Turner, a longtime supporter of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and other Ohio military installations, toured AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate the morning of Feb. 13, where he was welcomed by AFRL Executive Director Timothy Sakulich and representatives from AFRL’s Photonics, Electronics and Soft Matter Division. (U.S. Air Force Photo / Richard Eldridge)

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AFRL researcher guest edits prominent scientific journal

The second annual special edition of the prestigious scientific journal Matter, published January 2023, features guest editor and contributors from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and the University of California. Dr. Nick Glavin, AFRL senior materials engineer, and Dr. SungWoo Nam, associate professor at the University of California Irvine, guest-edited the issue, which highlights special reports on the development of a new class of materials known as 2D materials and heterostructures. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL researcher guest edits prominent scientific journal

The second annual special edition of the prestigious scientific journal Matter, published January 2023, features guest editor and contributors from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and the University of California. Dr. Nick Glavin, AFRL senior materials engineer, and Dr. SungWoo Nam, associate professor at the University of California Irvine, guest-edited the issue, which highlights special reports on the development of a new class of materials known as 2D materials and heterostructures. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL researcher guest edits prominent scientific journal

This figure from the article “2D layered materials and heterostructures: Past, present, and a bright future” highlights how 2D-layered materials serve as “building blocks” for engineering properties at the atomic scale. Written by Air Force Research Laboratory researcher Dr. Nick Glavin and University of California Irvine Associate Professor Dr. SungWoo Nam and published in the January 2023 edition of the scientific journal Matter, the article examines the history of 2D-layered materials and outlines a path forward for this class of materials. (Courtesy graphic)

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Deputy Secretary of Defense visits Air Force Research Laboratory

Air Force Research Laboratory Program Manager and UES, Inc. Contractor Braden Childers, left, discusses thermal materials testing inside the control room of AFRL’s Laser-Hardened Materials Evaluation Laboratory with Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks, who visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aug. 17, 2022. Gen. Duke Richardson, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, watches the demonstration. (U.S. Air Force photo / Keith Lewis)

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Deputy Secretary of Defense visits Air Force Research Laboratory

Air Force Research Laboratory Program Manager and UES, Inc. Contractor Braden Childers, left, discusses thermal materials testing inside the control room of AFRL’s Laser-Hardened Materials Evaluation Laboratory with Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks, who visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aug. 17, 2022. Gen. Duke Richardson, center, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, watches the demonstration with Dr. Kevin Geiss, director of Science and Technology Futures, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. (Department of Defense photo / Lisa Ferdinando)

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Poster Session 2022

Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, center, visits a student poster presentation Aug. 4, 2022, in building 653 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The student interns from AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate presented their research experiments to the public at the Student Poster Session A 2022.

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Poster Session 2022

Crowd of students, leaders and peers present their research experiments Aug. 4, 2022, to the public the Student Poster Session A 2022 in the cafetorium of building 653. Students present new technologies and findings from their summer internships.

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Poster Session 2022

Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate student interns pose as a group after completing their internships in front of building 653 at the Student Poster Session A 2022. A group of 57 student interns representing 30 universities conducted experiments within AFRL’s materials and manufacturing divisions during the past three months.

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AFRL interns showcase their work in annual poster session at Wright-Patterson

The in-person poster sessions meant masks and social distancing because of COVID-19. (U.S. Air Force photo/Micah Hung)

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AFRL interns showcase their work in annual poster session at Wright-Patterson

Wright State University student intern Alexander Vehre explains his poster. Vehre is an undergraduate majoring in mechanical engineering. (U.S. Air Force photo/Micah Hung)

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