Electrostatic Discharge: How important is it?
The Role of ESD
In ordinary circumstances, static electricity is little more than an annoyance. However, in an increasingly technological and integrated age, that familiar...
Solvay expands offering of high-performance polymers for 3D-printing simulation
Solvay adds 10% carbon fiber filled KetaSpire® polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and neat Radel® polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) to e-Xstream engineering’s latest release (2019.0) of Digimat®-Additive Manufacturing (AM)...
New Materials Exhibit Split Personality
What's the discovery?
Julia Greer, professor of materials science, mechanics and medical engineering in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, creates materials out of...
Researchers are developing fast-charging solid-state batteries
Solid-state batteries are currently associated with great hopes. They contain no liquid parts that could leak or catch fire. For this reason, they are...
Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for ‘organs-on-a-chip’
A new biosensor allows researchers to track oxygen levels in real time in “organ-on-a-chip” systems, making it possible to ensure that such systems more...
Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Scratch-Building with Styrene!
Adam Savage takes a look at kit-bashing and scratch-building with Styrene on his YouTube channel and Podcast, Tested. In a recent “One Day Builds”...
Material quirk could improve telecommunications
Researchers who study and manipulate the behavior of materials at the atomic level have discovered a way to make a thin material that enhances...
Novel Sensors Could Enable Smarter Textiles
A team of engineers at the University of Delaware is developing next-generation smart textiles by creating flexible carbon nanotube composite coatings on a wide...
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...
Link between magnetic field strength and temperature
Researchers recently discovered that the strength of the magnetic field required to elicit a particular quantum mechanical process, such as photoluminescence and the ability...
