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MIT researchers design new coating to prevent clogging of pipelines
A team at MIT, led by Kripa Varanasi, has created a new method of preventing icy buildup and leakages in oil and gas pipelines. The method involves coating the inside of the pipeline with a layer of a material that promotes spreading of a water-barrier layer along the pipe’s inner surface.
New Battery Coating Could Improve Smart Phones and Electric Vehicles
High performing lithium-ion batteries are a key component of laptops, smart phones and electric vehicles.
When Job is Done, Orthopedic Implant is Absorbed by the Body
A nontoxic, biodegradable orthopedic implant could eliminate the need for a second surgery to remove conventional hardware.
Researchers Make Major Breakthrough in Smart Printed Electronics
A team of scientists has fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2-D nanomaterials for the first time.
Mobile Unit Eradicates Chemical Agents
The unit demonstrated a more than 99.9999 percent destruction of simulated chemical warfare agents and effective scrubbing of acid gases.
New Adhesive Sensor Can Save Patients the Discomfort and Pain of Intravenous Drips
A new adhesive sensor can save patients the discomfort and pain resulting from leaky intravenous drips.
Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials
Material scientists have predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom, using high-throughput computational models.
Video: New Coating Could Prevent Pipeline Clogging
The development from MIT could stop methane clathrate buildup that slows oil and gas flow.
Excess Photon Energy Captured to Produce Solar Fuels
The peak external quantum efficiency for hydrogen generation has been pushed to 114 percent with a new photoelectrochemical cell.
Hoists with Overload Protection
OZ Lifting Products LLC provides premium chain and lever lifting hoists with overload protection. Lifting Hoists with capacities ranging from .5 ton to 50 tons are available with this safety feature.
Thermoelectrics Development for High-temp Waste Heat Recovery
Thermoelectric materials based on silicon nanowires feature conversion efficiencies of 10+% and the ability to operate at 800 C (1472 F).
Crowdfunding a Consumable Spherical Water Bottle — the Ooho!
A team of entrepreneurs affiliated with Skipping Rocks Lab has started a crowdfunding effort to mass-market a consumable water bottling device that produces what they call the Ooho!
Researchers Design Coatings to Prevent Pipeline Clogging
A team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent a Deepwater Horizon-like oil rig disaster.
New Material Could Save Time and Money in Medical Imaging and Environmental Remediation
Chemists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a material that holds the key to cheap, fast and portable new sensors for a wide range of chemicals that currently cost government and industries large sums to detect.
ABS vs PLA Filament
If you didn’t already know it, Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and Polylactic acid (PLA) are two of the most popular filament materials used for fused deposition modeling 3D printing today. Using one rather than the other comes down to various attributes of the material and, in some cases, personal choice
Ferroelectric, Flexible Thin Films for Nonvolatile Memory Devices
Non-volatile memory devices can be developed with an ultra-thin oxide ferroelectric film deposited onto flexible polymer substrate.
Improved Plasma Process for 3D Objects
Plasmas have long been used in industry to clean surfaces or to process them such that materials like paints or glues adhere to them more effectively.
New 3-D Printing Method Creates Shape-Shifting Objects
A team of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and two other institutions has developed a new 3-D printing method to create objects that can permanently transform into a range of different shapes in response to heat.
New Method for 3-D Printing Extraterrestrial Materials
When humans begin to colonize the moon and Mars, they will need to be able to make everything from small tools to large buildings using the limited surrounding resources.
Biological Applications of Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology is the study of the behavior and use of structures between 1 nanometer (nm) and 100 nm in size. To have a perspective about the sizes we are talking about, on the average a human hair is 90,000 nm thick and a sheet of regular paper is 100,000 nm thick.