ALD Vacuum Technologies, Germany, has developed the Vacuum Induction Degassing (VID) furnace concept for special applications in the ferrous and non-ferrous metals industry for charge weights up to 30 tons. Smaller steel shops and foundries will be able to produce high quality vacuum treated steels with the VID furnace in one step. The temperature losses during degassing treatment are compensated by induction heating.
Materion Microelectronics & Services, a Materion Corporation business, Cleveland, Ohio, has opened a Materials Applications Laboratory in Westford, Mass. It will serve three functions: produce coatings for customer evaluations of PVD materials, promote customer education/collaboration, and support Materion internal R&D. The laboratory features thin film equipment, such as a sputtering system with a 150-mm diameter target, and an electron beam box coater.
Composite industry leaders from around the globe will return this fall to the second edition of the JEC Americas Composites Show & Conferences at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Oct. 2-4, 2013.
The remarkable, rubber-like protein that enables dragonflies, grasshoppers, and other insects to flap their wings, jump, and chirp has major potential uses in medicine, scientists conclude in an article in the journal ACS Macro Letters. It evaluates the latest advances toward using a protein called resilin in nanosprings, biorubbers, biosensors, and other applications.
Researchers from Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., are among many scientists helping NASA use the weightlessness of space to design stronger materials here on Earth. Structural alloys are produced through solidification-a process similar to the making of ice cubes.
