Alcoa, a company specializing in lightweight metals technology, has developed an advanced manufacturing technology called the Alcoa MicromillTM which will redefine the future of automotive aluminum products.
The Schuh Group at MIT is developing new tungsten alloys that could be used to substitute depleted uranium in structural military applications, such as projectiles. Depleted uranium is a potential health hazard. The challenge was to create an alloy that is on par with uranium, which sharpens as it shears off material and sustains a pointed nose at the penetrator-target interface.
A research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a low-cost hydrolyzable polymer by reversing the properties of polyurea, an important bonding material. This latest breakthrough offers an alternative solution to packaging, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.
A pilot scale study conducted by researchers at Brunel University London has helped affirm that ultrasound treatment of molten metal could help produce high quality aluminium castings through a greener, cleaner and more efficient method.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that Blu-ray discs could also help improve solar cell performance. These discs have a quasi-random pattern for data storage. When this pattern is transferred to solar cells it can increase the light absorption capacity of these cells.
Picosun Oy launches production scale roll-to-roll ALD system which is especially suitable for printed electronics applications.
Freeman Technology has published a new white paper that describes extensive experimental studies examining the multiple mechanisms that lead to powder caking. Caking is a routinely encountered problem within powder handling applications which compromises productivity and increases waste.
Entrepreneurs in Mexico have designed and developed a novel machine which can convert recycled styrofoam into rigid plastic pellets with a 97% conversion rate, which can then be used to manufacture plastic products.
A new manufacturing facility for high performance thermoplastic films was officially opened last week by UK Chancellor George Osborne. Victrex, a world leader in high performance polymer solutions has invested $25 million (£16 million) to increase its capacity to supply APTIV® film, a success story for the company, with good growth in recent years.
Although wonder material graphene is extremely useful in some applications owing to its lightweight and ultra-strong characteristics, it cannot be the solution for all the world’s problems. In that regard, researchers worldwide are in search of new materials having the same level of potential. Graphene expert Mark Hersam at McCormick shows interest in molybdenum disulfide, a transition metal dichalcogenide.
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