Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels.
Puris LLC, Bruceton Mills, W. Va., recently signed a limited (partially) exclusive, term license agreement with NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland to produce a high-performance alloy enhanced with hafnium 60NiTi(Hf) that will be marketed under the brand name SM-103TM.
A new class of superhydrophobic materials mimics one of the planet’s most water-repelling surfaces: the lotus leaf. The material is inexpensive, nontoxic, and can be applied to a variety of surfaces via spray- or spin-coating. The hydrocarbon-based material may be a “green” replacement for costly, hazardous fluorocarbons commonly used for superhydrophobic applications, says Andrew Barron, […]
A research effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder to develop an inexpensive, “do-it-yourself” coating to retrofit energy-inefficient windows in residential and commercial buildings has been given a $4 million boost over three years by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Norsk Titanium AS, Norway, demonstrated its fourth-generation Rapid Plasma Deposition machine by producing a unique structural titanium spar for one of the world’s largest commercial aircraft manufacturers at its Technology Centre in Oslo.
