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Advisian Digital and Aurora Labs unveil 3D printing solution
Jan 14, 2019 (SPX)
The joint venture offers companies the ability to transform how parts are created and optimised - substantially reducing supply chain risk, decreasing costs and...
Making ammonia 'greener'
Jan 14, 2019 (SPX)
But while we've been producing ammonia at a large scale since the 1930s, it has been accomplished mainly in hulking chemical plants requiring vast amounts of hy...
Northrop Grumman to support U.S. Army's Starlite radar system
Jan 11, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is a hybrid fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee agreement. The AN/ZPY-1 STARLite radar system is ...
Virtual reality makes splash, but not ready for prime time
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
But even with the impressive visuals, VR appeared to be in the slow lane toward mass adoption, according to analysts and industry attendees at the massive techn...
New technique offers rapid assessment of radiation exposure
Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)
"If there is a large radiological event in a populated area, it would be difficult or impossible to treat everyone who could potentially have acute radiation sy...
Holographic color printing for optical security
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
Calling it "holographic colour prints", the research team led by Associate Professor Joel Yang demonstrated an optical device that appears as a regular colour p...
A high-performance material at extremely low temperatures
Jan 07, 2019 (SPX)
As a fire-new material, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) exhibit an extremely-broad philosophy on how to combine elements. The potent mixture strategy makes the oppor...
Raytheon contracts Elbit Systems for Two Color Laser System
Jan 04, 2019 (UPI)
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in a news release on Elbit Systems' website, but the U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli company said the contract wou...
Rippling: What happens when layered materials are pushed to the brink
Jan 03, 2019 (SPX)
This phenomenon, described as "kinking non-linear elastic" behavior by the researchers in Drexel's Department of Materials Science and Engineering who first rep...
Chemical catalysts turn tiny 2D sheets into 3D objects
Jan 03, 2019 (UPI)
"Now we have this integrated system that utilizes a chemical reaction to activate the fluid motion that simultaneously transports a flexible object and 'sculpts...
New metamaterial offers exceptional sound transportation
Jan 02, 2019 (UPI)
Material scientists at the City University of New York and at the City College of New York designed the metamaterial with the help of a mathematical field calle...
Predicting the properties of a new class of glasses
Jan 01, 2019 (SPX)
"We are sure of the transparency," said John Mauro, professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State. "We'll have to wait until larger samples can b...
MIT researchers develop novel 3D printing method for transparent glass
Dec 28, 2018 (SPX)
Click here to read the full-text article free on the 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing website through January 27, 2019. In the article entitled "Additive ...
Silver nanowires promise more comfortable smart textiles
Dec 28, 2018 (SPX)
A simple, scalable and low-cost capillary-driven self-assembly method to prepare conductive fibers with uniform morphology, high conductivity and good mechanica...
Give it the plasma treatment: strong adhesion without adhesives
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
A clean way to make industrial polymers adhesive is urgently needed. Now, a team at Osaka University has achieved just that. They have developed a suite of plas...
A major step closer to a viable recording material for future hard disk drives
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
Perpendicular recording HDDs store data as tiny areas of "up" or "down" magnetization within a thin layer on the surfaces of the disks. Each tiny area represent...
'Frozen' copper behaves as noble metal in catalysis: study
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
A team led by Dr. SUN Jian of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) gives a positive answer. The team's recen...
New composite advances lignin as a renewable 3D printing material
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
The discovery, detailed in Science Advances, expands ORNL's achievements in lowering the cost of bioproducts by creating novel uses for lignin - the material le...
Sustainable 'plastics' are on the horizon
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
The invention was the fruit of a multidisciplinary collaboration between Dr. Alexander Golberg of TAU's Porter School of Environmental and Earth Sciences and Pr...
Chemists create new quasicrystal material from nanoparticle building blocks
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
This is the first definitive observation of a quasicrystalline superlattice formed from a single component, the researchers say. The discovery provides new insi...
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