Tag: Advanced Materials
Researchers improve textile composite manufacturing
While wearing a crisply ironed, wrinkle-free shirt makes a good impression, researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus are working to solve the issue of wrinkling...
Studying the Dynamics of Entangled Fluid Polymers
Very long linear macromolecules can occur as fluid polymers at temperatures above their point of crystallization. These are commonly referred to as polymer melts...
3D Printed Motorcycle Part Produced with Generative Design
On display at the recent Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) and RAPID + TCT conferences was a motorcycle. But it wasn’t just any ordinary motorcycle; it...
The apparent inner calm of quantum materials
Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and multi-institutional collaborators have been studying BACOVO—a one-dimensional quantum material. They report that the material exhibits a...
Aspect Biosystems Lab-on-a-Printer 3D Bioprinting Platform
This week, Genome British Columbia (BC), which leads genomics innovation on the West Coast of Canada, announced that it has invested $1 million in funding to Aspect...
Prettiest fully Biodegradable 3D Printed Fashion
There’s little doubt that 3D printing technology has caused a disruption and revolutionary advancements in a number of fields and industries, from architecture and prosthetics to...
OceanGate’s Composite-Intensive Submersible
Update: Oceangate’s expedition to the Titanic has been rescheduled for next year. More info here.
OceanGate Inc., a provider of manned-submersible services, has launched Titan, formerly known...
Microbots That Swarm to Build Structures
At SRI International in Silicon Valley, researchers have developed perhaps the most impressive microbot army yet: the MicroFactory. It’s an ant colony made robotic, with...
Collaboration yields discovery of 12-sided silica cages
What do you call a materials science discovery that was given a major boost by a lecture from a Nobel laureate in chemistry, used...
Premium Aerotec presents thermoplastic CFRP bulkhead
The aerostructures supplier Premium Aerotec (Augsburg, Germany) has developed and manufactured a major component in the Airbus A320’s primary structure in carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) with...
