Recycled Plastics Boost Properties of Carbon Fiber
Chemically altered lignin combined with polyacrylonitrile strengthens carbon fiber while making it even lighter in weight.
Recycled Plastics Boost Properties of Carbon Fiber: The second...
New Rapid-Adhesive Forms Firm Bond with Polycarbonate
New Rapid-Adhesive Forms Firm Bond with Polycarbonate: A newly developed rapid-cure, self-adhesive liquid silicone rubber (LSR) designed for two-component injection molding forms a firm...
AeroSHARK thin film reduces drag on airplanes
When nature acts as a role model: Lufthansa Group and BASF introduce sharkskin technology
The shark is a true master of drag reduction: Lufthansa Technik...
Acetal & Delrin Ideal for Precision Close-Tolerance Industrial and Mechanical Components
Acetal copolymer plastic and Delrin® homopolymer plastic are mechanical thermoplastics used for precision close-tolerance industrial and mechanical components, featuring high strength and stiffness coupled...
Advanced Material Solutions for Process Manufacturing
Plastics and plastic composites continue to shape the future of many industries including paper, packaging, food processing, wastewater treatment, lumber, assembly lines, conveyor systems,...
Microstructures Self-Assemble into New Materials
A new process developed at Caltech makes it possible for the first time to manufacture large quantities of materials whose structure is designed at...
Lasers could take 3-D printing to next level
Cars that go more than 1,000 miles on a single fill-up and smartphones that can run for days without recharging are among the possibilities...
Building A Stronger Body Armor
Texas A&M researchers have found that adding silicon to a material used to make body armor can make it more resilient to firearms.
According to...
A bit of a stretch… material that thickens as it’s pulled
Scientists have discovered the first synthetic material that becomes thicker – at the molecular level – as it is stretched.
Leeds researchers have discovered a...
Physicists shed X-ray light on melting polymers
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Lomonosov Moscow State University have combined thermal analysis and X-ray scattering—two techniques for...
