UHMW Plastic Solves a Multitude of Issues for Wear Applications |...
Interstate Plastics provides many grades of UHMW-PE (ultra high molecular weight polyethylene) for a variety of wear, friction, and high-impact related applications from guard rails and...
Evonik agrees to sell its Methacrylates business to Advent International for...
Evonik has today signed an agreement to sell its Methacrylates business to Advent International for €3 billion. The selling price (enterprise value) is 8.5...
Bio-inspired materials decrease drag for liquids
Tiny nature-inspired cavities that trap air can stop liquids from sticking to surfaces without the need for coatings.
An eco-friendly coating-free strategy has now been...
Chemistry and Lasers Turn Any Plastic Surface Into a PCB
On the face of it, PCB production seems to pretty much have been reduced to practice. Hobbyists have been etching their own boards forever,...
Stretchy wires for the future
Scientists at Duke Chemistry, NC State Engineering and the University of California – San Diego have teamed up to create stretchable, flexible wires that...
Predicting the magnetic properties of materials
Permanent magnets used in electric cars and wind turbines currently contain rare earth metals. Reducing the amount of these elements in magnets is important,...
Rh ensemble catalyst for effective automobile exhaust treatment
A KAIST research team has developed a fully dispersed Rh ensemble catalyst (ENS) that shows better performance than commercial diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC). This...
High performance graphene-based catalysts
NUS scientists have developed design guidelines that increase the catalytic effectiveness of graphene-based solid-state catalysts for potential industrial applications.
Catalysts are widely used in the...
Novel process to 3D print one of the strongest materials on...
Researchers from Virginia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a novel way to 3D print complex objects of one of the highest-performing...
Computing catalysts—team unlocks the molecular secrets to a popular polymer
Polyisobutylene (PIB) is a workhorse polymer that is found in a multitude of products, ranging from chewing gum to tires, to engine oil and...
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