The new functions of the Axio CSM 700 confocal light microscope from Carl Zeiss enable materials scientists to measure large sample areas more conveniently and use the system more flexibly.
In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material called graphene, first generally acknowledged to exist just five years ago, turns out to have a variety of unique, and potentially very useful, characteristics.
For the first time, the plastic Terblend® N NG-02 is being used for a ski-hatch opening in the new Opel Insignia. In spite of its glass fiber content, this ABS/PA blend made by BASF can be used for visible parts without having to be coated. In comparison to other vehicle interior materials, this saves time and cuts costs.
Injection moulds for a new back-moulding application – the direct back-moulding of metal foils – are now available from the company that develops and builds them: Georg Kaufmann Formenbau AG.
The Society of Plastics Engineers’ Thermoforming Board of Directors has cancelled its Annual Thermoforming Conference in September 2009 and will instead focus its marketing energies on the Thermoforming Division’s multi-exhibitor Thermoforming World Pavilion at NPE2009.
American Trim, Ohio State University and General Motors demonstrated, in real time, the actual production of a fuel cell bipolar plate before a group of collaborators and media at American Trim's Research and Development Facility in Lima, Ohio.
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is offering a total of 11 printed proceedings that were published from the Society's 2009 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
The concurrent proceedings include thr...
PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has published Architectural Applications for Liquid and Powder Fluoropolymer Coatings: A Comparative Review, a white paper that examines a new generation of powder coatings for architectural me...
Saudi Ethylene and Polyethylene Company (SEPC) has successfully started up its Petrochemical Complex in Al-Jubail Industrial City, located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Today, U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) officials announced the destruction of 60 percent of the U.S. declared stockpile under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
This milestone was achieved Saturday, Apri...
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