HEADLINES ARCHIVE
A Pressure-Sensing Bandage of Many Different Colors
A compression dressing that changes color under pressure can be used by clinicians to check the color against a chart and determine if the bandage is at the correct pressure.
Tunable Membrane Switches Between Oil or Water Removal
A low-cost, reusable membrane can be used to separate oil and water on demand and with near-perfect efficiency.
Reduce Slag Carryover Reliably in Steel Production
While slag has use in the aftermarket in a variety of applications, its presence as a result of the steel-making process causes substantial time, expense and equipment damage. Until now, it has taken herculean efforts to remove slag. Now, based on recent advances in detection, slag is more reliably and effectively managed.
3D-printing System Can Print More Than One Material at a Time
The new technology is a one-step process that can print new structures that are made of two different materials.
Scientists Develop Film to Fight Bacteria on Plastic Retainers and Aligners
Plastic alternatives to traditional metal braces have offered significant relief to crooked smiles everywhere. Yet, clear plastic aligners designed to straighten teeth can come with an unsavory byproduct: contamination.
EU Considers Ban on Single-use Plastic Products
The future of certain single-use plastic products is uncertain as the European Commission considers a ban on such products, which are estimated to account for 70 percent of all waste in the waters and beaches in the European Union.
Personalized Tape Designs Spark Innovation and Efficiency
Using a general or multi-purpose tape robs end users of the advantages gained by a customized tape solution and likely creates a poor end product or impairs the process in which it is employed.
Building a Better Battery by Analyzing Lithium Under Pressure
Understanding how lithium reacts to pressure developed from charging and discharging a battery could mean safer, better batteries.
Ruthenium: Fourth Single Element Identified as Ferromagnetic at Room Temperature
The discovery could be used to improve sensors, devices in the computer memory and logic industry, or other systems using magnetic materials.
17-watt Thermal Interface Pad from Fujipoly
Sarcon 30XR-m from Fujipoly is a high-performance thermal interface material that exhibits a low thermal resistance.
Nanoparticles Deliver Cancer-fighting Drugs Directly to the Tumor
The nanoparticles were specifically developed to fight glioblastoma multiforme one of the most difficult forms of cancer to treat.
Steel Chips Combat E. coli Pollution in Storm Water
About 85-98 percent of the bacteria were removed by steel chips collected as machine shop waste material during small column testing.
Plastic and Its Impact on the Medical Industry
Despite earning itself a bad reputation, environmentally speaking, plastic has proven itself a life-saving material as far as the healthcare industry is concerned.
Turning Pollution on Its Head
A new technology can turn captured carbon dioxide emissions into a common plastics precursor — meaning that pollution can be used to make plastics, rather than the other way around.
Opening Polymer-forming Technologies to Glass
Scientists have developed a new technique for industrial glass processing. By employing a simple structuring technology to treat quartz glass like a polymer, the method overcomes a longstanding challenge to maximize both quality and efficiency.
IPC Adds /40 to Ventec International Group IPC-4101 Qualified Products Listing
VT-90H and VT-901 are qualified to specification sheets 40 and 41 of IPC-4101E, Specification for Base Materials for Rigid and Multilayer Printed Boards.
Saving Priceless Works of Art with Nanomaterials
In danger of deteriorating, canvases with works of art from artists like van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso, to name just a few, may get a helping hand from nanomaterials.
Volvo to Ban Single-use Plastics in its Facilities
In support of the Environmental Clean Seas campaign, the company will outlaw single-use plastics such as food containers, cutlery, plates and cups by the end of 2019 in its facilities around the world.
Biomimetic Silk Moth Fibers Provide Potential for New Textiles, Image Transport
Cocoon fibers of the Madagascar comet moth have exceptional capabilities to reflect sunlight and to transmit optical signals and images.
NIST Roadmap for Reducing Fire Hazards from Materials
The roadmap provides guidelines for developing science-based approaches to solving numerous fire problems for multiple materials and prioritizes the most urgent fire hazards to which they can be applied.