Tag: Plastic Star
PC/ABS Alloy with Recycled Content Mobilized in Cars
Materials supplier Trinseo supported a premium German automotive OEM with a recyclate-containing grade that requires 29% less energy and 22% less water to produce.
PC/ABS...
Indian Mold Builder Opens First US Plant Near Cincinnati
VasanthaTech, a subsidiary of India’s Vasantha Group, will build high-cavitation molds for the medical and packaging markets.
Indian Mold Builder Opens First US Plant Near...
Who Runs the Plastics World?
Who Runs the Plastics World?: It's time to recognize the women who make the plastics industry run. Nominations for Women Breaking the Mold 2023...
Materials with Bird-Inspired Structural Colors Using Nanoparticle
Materials with Bird-Inspired Structural Colors Using Nanoparticle: Materials scientists are often bioinspired, and in a new study, bird-inspired by structural colors exhibited by avian...
Artificial Muscle Fibers Could Serve as Cell Scaffolds
Artificial Muscle Fibers Could Serve as Cell Scaffolds: In two new studies, North Carolina State University researchers designed and tested a series of textile...
Forging a Dream Material with Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and collaborators have succeeded in creating a “superlattice” of semiconductor quantum dots that can behave...
Sweater-Wrapped Robots Can Feel and React to Human Touch
CMU Researchers Create Fabric and Sensing System To Measure Contact and Pressure
Sweater-Wrapped Robots Can Feel and React to Human Touch: The qualities that make...
Metal–Hydrogel Hybrids
Hybrid systems of hydrogels and metals with tough bonding may find widespread application in smart materials and device interfaces.
Metal–Hydrogel Hybrids: Hydrogels, or water swollen...
Protein Biohybrids as a Toolkit for New Materials
Protein Biohybrids as a Toolkit for New Materials: Nature has optimized a vast variety of processes through selection and evolution. However, many of them remain...
Liquid Crystal Polymer Grades Feature Improved Blister Resistance
Liquid Crystal Polymer Grades Feature Improved Blister Resistance: New grades of liquid crystal polymer (LCP) that offer improved blister resistance for electronic connectors have...
