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Rulon 123 Stamped Polymer Parts Locally Produced at Bangalore Site for Industrial Customer

Omniseal Solutions announces that as of April 2018, they have established the production of Rulon® 123 stamped fluoropolymer parts at their Bangalore, India, facility in order to supply local parts to a global industrial customer for use in gasoline metering pumps.

From Omniseal Solutions 8 Jun 2018

New Material Gives Manufacturers a Clean and Ethical Solution for Pump Seals

The manufacture of clean pumps used in food & beverage, pharmaceutical and cosmetics factories is likely to be affected the ban on environmentally harmful polymer microbeads, these are currently used in pump construction but are harmful to sea life. A new micro-structure manufactured by Seals and Bearings, a business of Morgan Advanced Materials using porous Silicon Carbide (SiC) is being cited as the answer, offering effective pore forming to help pumps perform for longer.

From Morgan Advanced Materials - Seals and Bearings 8 Jun 2018

Using Cellulose for Large-Scale and Sustainable 3D Printing

One of the most plentiful organic compounds & industrial by-product is cellulose - researchers have examined how to use it in 3D printing.

7 Jun 2018

Silver-Based Conductive Films Could Help Develop Flexible Screens and Electronics

Scientists have shown how a novel type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver can be fabricated on large scale.

7 Jun 2018

Additive Manufacturing (AM) Materials and Services

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From Goodfellow 7 Jun 2018

The Instron® Accessories Catalog 7th Edition is Here

The 7th edition of our highly popular Accessories for Materials Testing catalog is now available.

From Instron - USA 7 Jun 2018

A New Material for Absorbing Toxic Compounds from Water Within 24 Hours

The presence of criteria and emerging pollutants in water is a contemporary theme that has caused the scientific community to look for new alternatives and solutions. University of Seville researchers have recently demonstrated the effectiveness of two new absorbent materials that can eliminate organic pollutants in solution within 24 hours.

6 Jun 2018

Metal Atoms Shown to Support Catalysis

A recent study has shown that metal atoms can directly take part in the activation of reactants, promoting catalysis of an atomically dispersed metal catalyst.

5 Jun 2018

Remineralizing Dental Enamel

Scientists have developed a new method to regrow and remineralize dental enamel.

4 Jun 2018

Physicists Study Properties of Higher-Order Topological Insulators

Physicists studying higher-order topological insulators now think the material could be used to develop semi-conductor technology or quantum computing.

4 Jun 2018

Toughened Two Part Epoxy Withstands Repeated Thermal Cycling

Master Bond Inc. has developed a solvent free, two component, toughened epoxy system called Supreme 62-1. It is serviceable from -60°F to +450°F (-51°C to +232°C). Most noteworthy, Supreme 62-1 provides c...

From Master Bond Inc. 4 Jun 2018

Chemists Redesign Enzyme Levansucrase to Produce Sugar Polymers

Chemists have used a novel technique to modify the enzyme levansucrase. This enzyme can now create sugar polymers that hold potential applications in medicine and the food industry.

4 Jun 2018

Extremely Stretchable Hydrogels for Use in UV Curing Based 3D Printing Methods

Hydrogels, hydrophilic networks of polymeric chains equipped to retain a large quantity of water, have been extensively used in a range of applications. Latest advances in extremely stretchable hydrogels have extended their applications into the fields of transparent touch panels, soft robotics, and other applications necessitating large deformation.

1 Jun 2018

Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design to Increase Power Output

Russian scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM), and the National University of Science and Technology MISIS have upgraded the design of a nuclear battery that produces power from the beta decay of nickel-63, a radioactive isotope.

1 Jun 2018

Catalytic Compounds Made More Powerful with Uniform Detergent

Scientist David Rosenberg inspects images of a white powder using a robust scanning electron microscope. At close range, the powder resembles coarse gravel, a pile of similar but uneven chunks. Then he studies a second image—the same material created by colleague Hongyou Fan instead of buying from a catalog—and he observes flawlessly smooth, uniform spheres.

1 Jun 2018