These fabric bicycle spokes will lighten your load and keep you moving
When it comes to improving bicycle performance, weight is among the most important factors. With so many parts, developers have endless opportunities to shave...
Bead Chains Impersonate Polymer Molecules
Chains of metallic beads act a lot like polymer molecules, even though real polymers are in constant motion.
Granular materials such as sand often behave...
Stelia uses 3D printing to create self-reinforcing aircraft fuselage panel
The printed fuselage panel showing the rough printed surface on the left and the polished and painted surface on the right(Credit: Stelia Aerospace) Stelia...
A magnetic method for polishing metals enables mold templates with microscale features
Injection molding enables large-scale production of polymer and plastic materials with micrometer-sized features. Now, A*STAR scientists have developed a method for creating mold templates...
DWS Announces New Dental 3D Printing Business Unit and Dental Products
It hasn’t been long since DWS Systems released its last crop of 3D printers, showcasing the technology for which the company is known – SLA. SLA itself...
Automotive Under the Hood Plastic Market Report
The global automotive under the hood plastic market is expected to reach an estimated $3.6 billion by 2023 and it is forecast to grow...
FIRST SUSTAINABLE LEGO® BRICKS WILL BE LAUNCHED IN 2018
LEGO® botanical elements such as leaves, bushes and trees will be made from plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane in the future and will appear...
Seeking materials that match the brain
Polina Anikeeva explores ways to make neural probes that are compatible with delicate biological tissues.
Polina Anikeeva was born in Leningrad, USSR, but grew up...
Biocompatible anti-burn nanofibers that act as ‘living bandages’
A group of NUST MISIS's young scientists has presented a new therapeutic material based on nanofibers made of polycaprolactone modified with a thin-film antibacterial...
DuPont Nylon is Still Changing the World
The DuPont company's organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as nylon.
Carothers joined...
