Plastic Machining Company Solutions for Process Industries Ahead of SAMPE 2019 Expo
Plastic Machining Company (PMC) highlights the benefits of high-performance plastics and their increased roll in process industry applications ahead of the 2019 SAMPE (North...
Smart surfaces repel everything but targeted beneficial exceptions
Researchers at McMaster University have solved a vexing problem by engineering surface coatings that can repel everything, such as bacteria, viruses, and living cells,...
Breakthrough in self-healing materials
The cost of making plastics, paints, coatings for cell phone screens and other materials that heal themselves like skin could be dramatically reduced thanks...
Researchers harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials as...
Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer,...
Catalysts more efficient and environmentally friendly
By studying materials down to the atomic level, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have found a way to make catalysts more efficient and...
ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene implant
For the first time ever, a research team from the small innovative enterprise Biomimetix, implementing several NUST MISIS developments, has successfully implanted a biomimetic...
Electron microscopy to build quantum materials atom by atom
A novel technique that nudges single atoms to switch places within an atomically thin material could bring scientists another step closer to realizing theoretical...
New method measures 3-D polymer processing precisely
Recipes for three-dimensional (3D) printing, or additive manufacturing, of parts have required as much guesswork as science. Until now.
Resins and other materials that react...
Flexible electronics made from exotic materials – MIT
Cost-effective method produces semiconducting films from materials that outperform silicon.
The vast majority of computing devices today are made from silicon, the second most abundant...