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Harper Awarded Australian Government Nuclear Contract

Harper International, world leader in thermal processing solutions for advanced materials, has been awarded a contract to supply a hot cell Rotary thermal processing system for use to treat waste from nuclear medicine production at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO).

From Harper International 2 Feb 2016

Long-Lasting Protective Coating to Prevent Rusting in Offshore Wind Turbines

Renewable energy is produced from the winds out at sea by offshore wind farms. The saltiness in the air causes the wind turbines to rust. For these farms to be profitable, the turbines need to remain in action for 25 years at least, which would not possible without regular maintenance. A team of researchers from Fraunhofer have created a protective film, which will enhance the repair method. They are also looking to formulate an essential inspection criteria.

2 Feb 2016

Boeing Uses Hexcel's Composite Materials in 737 MAX for Superior Strength and Fuel-Efficiency

Hexcel and Boeing today celebrated the first flight of the 737 MAX 8 — the first member of Boeing’s efficient 737 MAX family — which took to the skies from Renton Field near Boeing’s 737 Final Assembly plant in Renton, Wash.

2 Feb 2016

Researchers Exploit Leidenfrost Effect to Control Movements of Liquid Droplets

Turn on a skillet and let it heat up until it is well above the boiling point of water. Then sprinkle a teaspoon of water on the skillet and watch. Water droplets will bounce up, form spheres and scurry across the surface.

2 Feb 2016

Dow Corning's New Silicone Elastomer Products May Help Shape Future of Medical Device Innovation

Macro trends including an aging population, technological advancements and increased healthcare spending promise to boost global medical device industry growth by 6.1 percent annually over the next two years.

2 Feb 2016

Stratasys Enhances 3D-Printing Properties of Object Connex3

Stratasys Ltd., the 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, today unveiled the enhanced Objet Connex3, with the goal of helping the additive manufacturing industry bridge the technology adoption chasm by making the power of multi-color and multi-material 3D printing more accessible to all.

2 Feb 2016

Nano Dimension Unveils Dragonfly 2020 3D Printer For Next-Generation Electronics

At SOLIDWORKS World 2016, Nano Dimension Ltd., a leader in the area of 3D Printed Electronics,, is demonstrating its recently unveiled DragonFly 2020 3D Printer, designed to be the ultimate rapid prototyping tool for professional electronics. The DragonFly 2020 3D Printer will be exhibited in the show’s Partner Pavilion January 31 – February 3.

2 Feb 2016

Non-Yellowing UV Curable System Has Superior Abrasion Resistance

Master Bond UV15X-6NM-2 is a one component UV curing urethane acrylate system formulated for a variety of bonding, sealing, coating and encapsulation applications.

From Master Bond Inc. 1 Feb 2016

Twi and Metalysis Demonstrate 3D-Printed Tantalum Biomedical Implants

TWI and Metalysis demonstrate 3D-printed tantalum biomedical implants

From Metalysis 1 Feb 2016

Stanford Engineer Uses Gecko-Inspired Adhesive to Climb Like Spider-Man

In a recent episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert commented on a discovery made by zoologists from the University of Cambridge that Spider-Man probably couldn't climb walls. After intensive research, the zoologists found that natural adhesives scale in a way that geckos are the largest animals that can stick to walls and climb vertical surfaces.

1 Feb 2016

Researcher Develops New Method to Prepare Efficient Photoelectrodes for Solar Hydrogen Production

Dr. Guijarro has devloped a facile and scalable method to prepare (Cu(In,Ga)S2) photocathodes and demonstrated their state-of-the-art performance for Solar Hydrogen production. The results have been plublished in Advanced Energy Materials.

1 Feb 2016

Optomec to Highlight Aerosol Jet 3D Printers at InnoLAE Conference

Optomec, a leading global supplier of production grade additive manufacturing systems for 3D Printed Metals and 3D Printed Electronics announced today that the company will feature its production grade Aerosol Jet 3D Printers at the Innovations in Large-Area Electronics (InnoLAE) Conference on February 1-2 at Robinson College in Cambridge, UK.

1 Feb 2016

New Discovery Ensures Fast Transport of Electrical Charges in Polymers

A team of researchers at Umeå University have demonstrated, for the first time, the possibility of an efficient charge transport in semiconducting polymers, by controlled chain and crystallite orientation. These pioneering results, while enhancing polymer charge transport by over 1,000 times, can influence organic opto-electronic devices, and were published in a recent issue of Advanced Materials.

1 Feb 2016

Northwestern University Researchers Develop Completely New Hybrid Polymer

Envisage a polymer that has removable parts and can be environment-friendly, and then can be chemically recreated to function again; alternatively, a polymer that is capable of lifting weights, and expanding and contracting, similar to muscles.

1 Feb 2016