Various masking techniques have been developed to protect components next to the coating area from impact by overspray particles including shadow masks, high-temperature tapes, and paint-on masking compounds.
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Concordia receives $1.9M for transformative coatings research
The Government of Canada has committed $24 million through the New Frontiers in Research Fund for a project led by Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, poised to extend the lifespan of metals.
Solving a superconducting mystery with supercomputer computations
Researchers have known about high-temperature superconducting copper-based materials, or cuprates, since 1980. Below a certain temperature (approximately -130 degrees Celsius), electrical resistance vanishes from these materials and magnetic flux fields are expelled. However, the basis for that superconductivity continues to be debated and explored.
Scientists weave atomically thin wires into ribbons
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have succeeded in using nanowires of a transition-metal chalcogenide to make atomically thin nanoribbons. Bundles of nanowires were exposed to a gas of chalcogen atoms and heat which helped merge the threads into narrow strips. Nanoribbons are highly sought after for sophisticated electronic devices; given the scalability of the method, the team hopes it will see widespread use in the industrial production of cutting-edge materials.
UMass researchers publish article predicting faster formation of nanoporous material
An interdisciplinary team of UMass Amherst researchers had their recently published article chosen as a “hot” article in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The team, led by chemistry professor Scott Auerbach and chemical engineering professor Wei Fan, reported breakthrough computer simulations confirmed by experiments showing faster crystallization of nanoporous catalysts known as zeolites.