Materials Science News

RSS

Penn State Researchers Aim to Find New Metamaterial for Structural Safety During Earthquake

Annually, earthquakes and explosions damage numerous structures around the world, destroying many lives in their wake.

21 Jun 2017

Minus K Technology Announces Fifth U.S. Educational Giveaway

Minus K Technology will grant at least $20,000* of its superior performing patented Negative-Stiffness low-frequency vibration isolators to colleges in the United States.

From Minus K Technology 21 Jun 2017

UTC Aerospace Systems Obtains Exclusive License to New Technology for Aircraft Temperature Sensing

UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has obtained an exclusive license from Smart Fibres Ltd. to a fiber optic based technology for aircraft temperature sensing.

20 Jun 2017

Scientists Uncover Design Principles to Make Polymers that Could Transport Both Ions and Electrons

Scientists designing polymers that can bridge the biological and electronic divide must deal with incompatible messaging styles. Electronics rely on racing streams of electrons, but biological systems transmist signals using ions.

20 Jun 2017

New Research on Heterostructural Alloys Promises Greater Materials Control

New research into the largely unstudied area of heterostructural alloys could lead to greater materials control and in turn better semiconductors, advances in nanotechnology for pharmaceuticals and improved metallic glasses for industrial applications.

20 Jun 2017

Stratasys Introduces New 3D Printing Solution for Producing Aircraft Interior Parts

Stratasys Ltd., the 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, has introduced at the Paris Airshow - Hall 4, Stand C208 - the Fortus 900mc Aircraft Interiors Certification Solution - a new 3D printing solution based on its Fortus 900mc Production 3D Printer for producing aircraft interior parts which meet stringent FAA and EASA certification requirements.

20 Jun 2017

NanoSteel Unveils New 3D Printable Tool Steel for Laser Powder Bed Fusion

NanoSteel, the leader in nanostructured steel materials, today announced the launch of its first product for the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process. BLDRmetal™ L-40 is a case-hardening steel powder that provides high hardness and ductility (case hardness >70HRC, 10%+ core elongation) and prints easily on standard commercial equipment.

20 Jun 2017

Anode Rod Identification and Indexing

The correct installation of a new rodded anode into the pot cell is of critical importance. VHE of Iceland has developed and installed an anode rod indentification and indexing system.

19 Jun 2017

New Computational Method Enhances Ability to Predict How Metals React in Water

The wide reach of corrosion, a multitrillion-dollar global problem, may someday be narrowed considerably thanks to a new, better approach to predict how metals react with water.

19 Jun 2017

Raucous Crystals - Acoustic Emissions from Organic Martensite Analogues

Image Credits: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Some organic crystals jump around when heated up. This happens because of an extremely fast change in their crystal structure. In the journal Angewandte Chemi...

19 Jun 2017

Researchers Identify Nickel Oxide as Candidate Material for High-Temperature Superconductivity

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has identified a nickel oxide compound as an unconventional but promising candidate material for high-temperature superconductivity.

19 Jun 2017

Engineers Use LSAM System to 3D Print Carbon Fiber-Filled PPS Panels

Thermwood Corporation has been busy lately. Last year, the Indiana company introduced LSAM, or Large Scale Additive Manufacturing, a combination 3D printer and CNC router system designed for producing large parts.

19 Jun 2017

SABIC Receives Prestigious Best Polymer Producer Award

SABIC has been named the winner of the prestigious Best Polymer Producer Award in the category of polypropylene. The award is given in conjunction with the European Plastics Converters (EuPC) annual event, held in Madrid, Spain. The winner is selected based on European-wide customer satisfaction survey conducted by the Polymers for Europe Alliance.

19 Jun 2017

WCM's First Hackathon Focuses on 3D Printing Innovation Challenge

The Clinical and Translational Science Center, in collaboration with the medical student group Tech-in-Medicine, hosted its first hackathon, the 3-D Printing Innovation Challenge, over the course of several days in May.

19 Jun 2017

Oxford Instruments Launches the MQC+ Benchtop NMR Analyser for Easier, Faster, More Accurate Quality Assurance

Oxford Instruments has launched the MQC+ benchtop NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) analyser for the measurement of oil, water, fluorine and solid fat in a variety of samples in a wide range of industries.

From Oxford Instruments 19 Jun 2017