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Plasmatreat GmbH, Germany, the world market leader for atmospheric plasma technology, is launching three new plasma nozzles that expand its large product portfolio to include applications for treating temperature-sensitive materials, the wide-area pretreating of surfaces, and homogeneous surface coating. Plasma technology can be used to modify the surface properties of a wide variety of materials in order to optimally prepare materials and material combinations for subsequent processes. Plasmatreat has developed various processes for this purpose.

Each year, the United States spends almost a trillion dollars trying to combat metallic corrosion, an electrochemical reaction which occurs when metals oxidize and begin to rust. Now, a team of researchers led by the Ohio State University (OSU) has estimated how much corrosion is gradually worsening global carbon emissions. Although earlier research has already estimated the economic cost of corrosion to be about three to four percent of United States’ gross domestic product, this is the first

A Missouri S&T research team was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy to research technologies to improve the operating efficiency of electric arc furnaces (EAFs) used for steelmaking.    “It takes a tremendous amount of power to run an EAF, and we are looking for new ways to lower that energy footprint,” says Dr. Ronald O’Malley, the F. Kenneth Iverson Endowed Chair of Steelmaking Technologies and director of

A Missouri S&T research team was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy to research technologies to improve the operating efficiency of electric arc furnaces (EAFs) used for steelmaking.    “It takes a tremendous amount of power to run an EAF, and we are looking for new ways to lower that energy footprint,” says Dr. Ronald O’Malley, the F. Kenneth Iverson Endowed Chair of Steelmaking Technologies and director of

Across the world, some 80 million people suffer from glaucoma, a number that’s expected to swell to 111 million by 2040. Today, an estimated three million have been diagnosed in the United States. But common as it may be, glaucoma is a formidable affliction. It takes root with an accumulation of fluid in the eyes, forming a bubble of extra pressure that slowly damages the optical nerve. At first touch, symptoms can be imperceptible—perhaps a

A fluid bed results when a gas is passed upward through a bed of small solid particles at a rate fast enough to lift these particles and to create turbulence. This motion of particles, which are usually made of aluminum oxide or silica oxide, is similar to that of a fluid.