Tag: Composite Materials
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...
Stickers transform the human body into a multi-touch surface
Electronic tattoos: Using distinctive body locations to control mobile devices intuitively
Computer scientists from Saarland University and the US company Google are giving wrinkles, knuckles,...
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...
Forms in Nature a 3D Printed Chandelier
https://vimeo.com/70414149
A year and a half ago, we told you about Forms in Nature, a stunning light sculpture by Hilden & Diaz (Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz) that casts...
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...
Making new layered superconductors
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created new superconductors made of layers of bismuth sulfide (BiS2) and a high-entropy rare earth alloy oxyfluoride, containing...
Polypropylene robots utilize humidity gradient to generate signals
A team of researchers at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has developed a type of soft robot that can...
Ultra thin magnetic device leads to new memory technologies
Magnetic materials are the backbone of modern digital information technologies, such as hard-disk storage. A University of Washington-led team has now taken this one...
