Tag: Composite Materials
Starch can replace normal plastic in food packaging
Eventually, all petroleum-based material in food packaging will have to be replaced with a bio-based material. Research done at Karlstad University shows that a...
3D Printing with Cellulose fungal-like adhesive material (FLAM)
Cellulose is the most abundant and broadly distributed organic compound and industrial by-product on Earth. However, despite decades of extensive research, the bottom-up use...
Plastics with a built-in self-destruct mechanism
Chemists in search of their Holy Grail: a plastic designed to die
Plastics were designed to last as long as possible, but they’re now blamed...
SABIC launches STADECK™ heavy-duty panels
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, announces the launch of STADECK™, its new heavy- duty panel for the building and construction industry....
A new way to mend a broken heart
“Therepi” device attaches directly to the damaged heart, enabling delivery of medicine from a port under a patient’s skin to augment cardiac function.
After a...
MOF material exhibits selective capture of toxic atmospheric gas
Led by the University of Manchester, an international team of scientists has developed a metal-organic framework material (MOF) that exhibits a selective, fully reversible...
Life-Size Mammoth in Biggest SLA Project Ever
Turning 320 mammoth bones from scan into scientifically accurate reconstruction
Leuven, Belgium – 2018. Materialise NV (Nasdaq: MTLS) is realizing its largest Stereolithography project yet...
Physicists create new class of 2-D artificial materials
In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature.
For decades, scientists thought it would...
Tiny defects in semiconductors created ‘speed bumps’ for electrons
A paper about the research was published in Nature. The study was led by Xiangfeng Duan, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College, and Yu Huang, professor...
3-D printed multimaterial with programmed stiffness
A new method of microscale 3-D printing features in-situ resin mixing, delivery and exchange, and a robotic material cleansing system to allow switching between...
