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How the Well Building Standard can keep occupants healthy and happy
Building design plays a key role in occupant well-being, and some strategies can reduce communicable disease transmission.
Watch: Biodegradable masks designed for COVID-19 response effort
Researchers in Canada turned to plentiful wood resources to develop a fully compostable and biodegradable medical grade face mask.
Team attempting to use components from Blue-ray discs to kill viruses like COVID-19
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, are exploring the use of diodes from Blu-ray digital video discs, turning them into deep ultraviolet (UV) laser photon sources to disinfect surfaces and indoor air, quickly, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Team creates self-cleaning aluminum surface
Scientists from the Technische Universität Dresden and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS have developed a self-cleaning aluminum.
Treatment scheme defuses munitions wastewater
Iron nanoparticles effectively clean wastewater from munitions processing and demilitarization operations.
Team develops antibiofouling diamond film
Researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new biomimetic antibiofouling diamond film.
Researchers develop egg-based coating for produce
Researchers from Rice University have developed a new coating derived from egg waste that protects fruits and vegetables for extended periods.
Scientists develop self-healing bone material
Material scientists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany have developed a self-healing bone replacement material.
New IAEA database tracks spent fuel and radioactive waste
The Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Information System (SRIS) will provide an integrated view of national and global spent fuel and radioactive waste inventories as well as relevant laws and policies.
Permanent magnet materials for electric motors
The demand for permanent magnets in electric motors is growing, and designers need to understand the benefits and tradeoffs of the high energy magnet materials available today.
Video: DOE reveals Waves to Water prize winners
The competition promotes the use of wave energy-powered desalination to provide potable drinking water for remote coastal and island communities.
Team develops mole-bot for drilling, space applications
A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a robot inspired by the African mole-rat and European mole.
Five ways companies can help fight climate change
Integrating sustainable business practices is essential for all industries if the planet is to stay healthy. These are five ways that businesses and industries can start switching from wasteful to helpful.
Team turning chemical components of batteries into fertilizer
In an effort to build a circular battery economy, a company based in Australia is using manganese and zinc recovered from alkaline batteries as a supplement for fertilizer.
Empowering power for the digital age
The power supplies for today’s automation systems must be significantly more intelligent, robust and secure than any power component in widespread use today.
Companies work together to develop seal for high-pressure valves
Following the development of a single-sealed valve, a valve manufacturer and a sealing manufacturer worked together to engineer a custom seal to support the valve’s design.
Germany-based company redesigns its line of gas non-return valves
Witt, a gas technology manufacturer, introduced its new generation of gas non-return valves, which allow plant engineers to construct smaller systems.
Cobots improve efficiency and reduce floorspace for electronics provider
Benchmark Electronics deployed six cobots for assembly and testing. Their results: greater efficiency, floorspace.
Researchers create technique for improving time-of-death estimates
Teams from Amsterdam UMC, the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) have developed a technique that improves the accuracy of time-of-death estimates at crime scenes to within less than an hour of the subject’s death.
The Pulse360: Industrial Marketers Look Toward the Future as Coronavirus Continues to Impact Plans, Part 1
Over the past few months, IEEE GlobalSpec has been tracking how industrial marketers have been impacted by the coronavirus. While things are far from back to normal, the initial shock of the pandemic has begun to wear off for many, and marketers in the manufacturing space are beginning to think about how the rest of their year might play out. As some businesses begin to reopen across the United States and around the globe, we asked industrial marketers how their 2020 marketing strategy has been affected.