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Making plastic cars
New facility to focus on materials
Johnson Matthey, Oxford University, and Diamond Light Source, all in the UK, announced the creation of a state-of-the-art materials characterization facility at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Failure analysis of electronics course offering
College Park, Md. September 16–19, 2014 CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) at the University of Maryland and Allied High Tech, Rancho Dominguez, Calif., are jointly offering a four-day course on failure analysis of electronics at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Over 200 engineers from leading companies and government organizations from around […]
Making the perfect atom sandwich
Like the perfect sandwich, a perfectly engineered thin film for electronics requires not only the right ingredients, but also just the right thickness of each ingredient in the desired order, down to individual layers of atoms.
How materials lose their bonding
Materials that are firmly bonded together with epoxy and other tough adhesives are ubiquitous in modern life—from crowns on teeth to modern composites used in construction.