Monash University, Australia, announces that its engineering team has developed graphene oxide material that is one nanometer thick whose shape can be changed almost instantaneously by an electric field.
TA Instruments, New Castle, Del., introduces the ElectroForce 3310, which delivers 1 kN of force capacity and can be integrated with a torsion actuator that provides simultaneous axial-torsion loading.
Engineers are attaching sensors to locusts so they can monitor how the insects sniff out odors.
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, opened a state-of-the-art, 3D printing metal powder production facility at the Alcoa Technology Center.
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., has shipped 11 heat-treating systems to eight different states from California to Massachusetts over the past quarter, for processing parts for companies in the aerospace, energy, commercial heat treating, and coating industries.
