The U.S. Navy needs lighter materials so ships will go further faster. One way to do that is to use new composite materials. But how will these materials respond to fire -- one of the most critical safety concerns on a s...
The prohibition of asbestos in car brakes in the 1980s served as the starting shot for the production of brake shims made of rubber and steel laminate. Trelleborg Rubore saw its opportunity and today, the company is one ...
Picture a bird, effortlessly adjusting its wings to catch every current of air. Airplanes that could do the same would have many advantages over today's flying machines, including increased fuel efficiency.
Now M...
TCR Engineering Services, a reputed and independent ISO 17025 certified material testing laboratory, today expanded its boundaries by initiating a joint venture in Kuwait. The new company will be called "TCR-KIL Kuw...
Researchers at Oregon State University have created the world's first completely transparent integrated circuit from inorganic compounds, another major step forward for the rapidly evolving field of transparent elect...
Rice University physicist Randall Hulet discussed breakthrough efforts to create a long-sought quantum superfluid at a press conference at the American Physical Society's 2006 March Meeting.
In January, Hulet'...
Graphite, the material that gives pencils their marking ability, could be the basis for a new class of nanometer-scale electronic devices that have the attractive properties of carbon nanotubes - but could be produced us...
Freeman Technology will demonstrate a new capability for the FT4 Powder Rheometer – ‘real time’ bulk density measurement. New software developments for the FT4 now make it possible to measure bulk densi...
Natural rubber is currently technically unavoidable for some purposes, despite the competition from synthetic rubber. Most notably, it accounts for 75% of the rubber used in the tyre industry. However, although Hevea bra...
Joe Gray picked up 18-inches of space shuttle foam and turned the inch-thick sample on its side to show the layers within the foam.
The spray-on foam that insulates and protects the space shuttle’s super-cold e...
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