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.
A species of slug (Arion subfuscus) produces a defensive gel it can chemically convert into a remarkably strong glue. Similar gel-based glues attach some snails firmly onto slippery rocks; tools are needed to pry them of...
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) offers architects a single, comprehensive resource for designing sustainable building envelopes through advanced architectural glasses and metal roof coatings.
MEPS forecasts global stainless steel production at 20.8 million tonnes in 2009. The Western world figure (excluding China and Russia), at 13.5 million tonnes, would be the lowest since 1994 and the third consecutive ann...
Jancik Arts International (JAI), creators of award-winning stained glass ceiling domes for the hospitality industry, will showcase a new collection of faux-casted glass art at the HD Boutique Expo & Conference in Las Vegas, May 14 - 16, 2009.
Defective Chinese drywall used in many new homes since 2003 releases sulfur dioxide which is causing corrosion to electrical systems, copper piping, HVAC and other metal fixtures. The damages to tear out and replace the ...
There are seven different possible structural forms that have 80 carbon atoms in a symmetrical, spherical arrangement. Among the forms that are so instable they have not previously been produced is the icosahedral version (icosahedron= twenty-sided figure).
Instead, a team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it has agreed to sell its wire harness and electrical distribution business to Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity group. The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
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...
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