Tag: Composite Materials
3D Printed Tool for Exploring Beneath Ice in Outer Space
Using 3D printing, fiberglass and stainless steel, a team from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University developed a tool that could help NASA explore underneath ice-covered surfaces...
Chilean company create water soluble plastic bag
Roberto Astete and Cristian Olivares, two researchers from Chile, are the masterminds behind a new biodegradable plastic bag. They discovered the formula while experimenting...
3D Printer Buying Guide 2018
Since our buying guide last year, a lot has changed in 3D Print-Land. More functional desktop 3D printers have emerged, and a slew of...
UNYQ partners up with IKEA and Area Academy for the gaming...
UNYQ, a frontrunner in medical wearables, is teaming up with IKEA to present a one of a kind prototype that aims at making gaming...
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...
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