Researchers engineered a living Citrobacter sp. MICI21 biofilm on copper that outcompeted the corrosive sulfate-reducing bacterium Oleidesulfovibrio alaskensis G20 and formed a dense, mechanically cohesive barrier. The MICI21-dominated biofilm limited sulfide ingress and pitting and produced substantially greater corrosion resistance, supporting microbiome engineering as a potential strategy for living, adaptive coatings.
Bruker today announced the launch of two groundbreaking detectors at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2026: the eWARP™ TKD, a next-generation Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD) detector for nanoscale crystallographic characterization, and the XFlash® FlatQUAD™ 2L, the latest evolution of Bruker’s annular EDS detector, enabling simultaneous Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Back-Scattered Electron (BSE) detection.
Master Bond EP55TCFL is a thermally conductive, electrically insulating epoxy system developed for bonding, sealing, coating, and small potting applications. It meets NASA low outgassing specifications and incorporates a filler with small particle sizes, enabling application in thin bond lines to minimize thermal resistance.
Researchers developed CoatingDet, a publicly available dataset containing 5,416 high-resolution images of wind turbine tower coatings captured under real manufacturing conditions, with annotations for critical defects and benign surface particles. Validation with YOLOv11n and RT-DETR showed the dataset can support reproducible deep learning-based inspection while highlighting the importance of lighting conditions and class imbalance for reliable deployment.
A new type of plastic that turns into a gas when heated and reforms into a solid when cooled has been developed by scientists at the University of Surrey, opening up a new approach to processing and recycling polymers.
Researchers showed that alkaline cyanide aerosols interacting with six mineral substrates can spontaneously form mineral-organic hybrid materials, with mineral identity and reaction time shaping the resulting nitrogen-rich organic structures. The findings reveal that minerals can actively influence prebiotic molecular complexity while organic coatings can also stabilize or transform the underlying mineral phases.
Manufacturers scaling a bonding, coating or printing process to full production rarely struggle with the science of surface treatment; they struggle with holding it steady, line after line, shift after shift.
The success of a promising class of next-generation batteries may hinge on something almost impossibly thin: a coating just a nanometer thick - roughly 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.
Researchers developed a thiourea-derived surface treatment that combines a sub-nanometer sulfur-rich coating with a spinel-like layer to protect lithium-rich manganese oxide cathodes and accelerate lithium-ion transport. In laboratory solid-state half-cells, the modified cathode delivered 220.2 mAh g?¹ and retained approximately 97% of its capacity after 600 cycles at 1 C.
Master Bond UV16Med-FD is a one part, low viscosity, epoxy based UV curable system containing a fluorescent dye for identification.
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