Plastic Gears Are the Future
Plastic gearing has been increasing in usage as designers better understand their benefits and limitations. These gears can be produced by hobbing or stamping...
PVC Plastics Prove Perfect for Off the Grid DIY Heated Shower...
Everyone enjoys a hot shower, even at the campsite or off the beaten path, but the price of hot water systems can run into...
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...
Creating a Seal | Laser Engraving Delrin Seals
This week we're laser engraving Delrin and showing you how to create seals. These are our Trodat seals which are mostly used by lawyers...
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...
Reliable and extremely fast quantum calculations with germanium transistors
Transistors based on germanium can perform calculations for the future quantum computer. This discovery by the team of Menno Veldhorst may place the transistor,...
Tethon 3D and University of Nebraska to Develop First Ceramic and...
Tethon 3D, a ceramic 3D printing material specialist headquartered in Nebraska, has received a grant to develop a multi-material DLP 3D printer.
The grant was...
New polymer tackles PFAS pollution
The problem of cleaning up toxic polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) pollution—commonly used in non-stick and protective coatings, lubricants and aviation fire-fighting foams—has been solved...
Nano-sandwiching prevents overheating in nanoelectronics
Sandwiching two-dimensional materials used in nanoelectronic devices between their three-dimensional silicon bases and an ultrathin layer of aluminum oxide can significantly reduce the risk...
Increase battery life of electronic devices by more than a hundred-fold
Among the chief complaints about a smartphone, laptop and other battery-operated electronics users are that the battery life is too short and—in some cases—that...
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