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Spotlight on Ohio Research & Innovation News

[OhioTechNews] Joby Aviation’s newly announced partnership with defense giant L3Harris Technologies could strengthen the role of its Dayton facility as a national center for aerospace innovation.

Albatrosses have 11-foot wingspans that carry them across oceans. But it’s how they use these wings that makes them world-class flyers, according to a University of Cincinnati aerospace engineering professor Sameh Eisa, who hopes to harness their amazing abilities for the next generation of drones.

Led by Professor Lei Zhu, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an environmentally safer type of plastic that can be used for wearable electronics, sensors and other electrical applications, findings that were recently published in the journal Science.

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