Styrene and PVC for Signage Applications | Interstate Plastics
Interstate Plastics carries a wide range of signage, display, and printing materials for indoor and outdoor applications, including point of purchase (POP) displays, direct...
Architect illuminates the future of built environments
Blaine Brownell is more than an architect and a professor at the University of Minnesota: he’s a researcher of emerging materials. For those not...
Tethers Unlimited wins NASA grant to work on future FabLab for...
Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited is getting a shot at helping to create an advanced fabrication facility that could manufacture and recycle 3-D printed items...
Actuation Gives New Dimensions to an Old Material
One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive materials — paper — seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself, by means of...
Thermal insulation composite system with integrated photovoltaics
The future of the building envelope is the focus of the four-year-old cooperation between DAW SE and the OPVIUS GmbH company. An ambitious sustainability...
Novel 3D Printing Process Used in Unique Nashville and Chicago Installations
A novel 3D printing process developed by Branch Technology, Chattanooga, Tenn., was used in two recently completed unique projects. The firm, an architectural fabricator...
MIT Offers 11-Week Online Course in 3D Printing
LEVERAGE THE DESIGN FREEDOM OF 3D PRINTING
Starts February 25, 2019
Enrollment Now Open!
Additive manufacturing (AM), broadly known as 3D printing, is transforming how products are...
Interstate Plastics Provides Long-Term Outdoor Signage Solutions with HDPE ColorCore
HDPE ColorCore© is Interstate Plastics strongest signage material and withstands any outdoor conditions or areas exposed to harsh chemicals or moisture. Durable ColorCore© comes...
Team develops a family of bioinspired artificial woods from traditional resins
Nature has provided the inspiration for the design and fabrication of high-performance biomimetic engineering materials. Wood, which has been used for thousands of years,...
Flat-pack homes and profit-sharing retrofits are making sustainable housing affordable
Wealth-generating, flat-pack solar houses and a profit-sharing scheme that incentivizes retrofitting are bringing sustainable living to people who would otherwise not be able to...