Both elements of the fragrance’s packaging are produced by the packaging company Rexam using new and innovative techniques, achieved thanks to the unique…
The objective of this project is to speed up the market maturity of innovative and production-ready equipment and to foster cost-efficient equipment…
Being able to mimic these features at a larger scale would spur new advances in renewable energy and medicine. In a paper published in the October 10 issue of…
The process is called “capillary forming,” and it takes advantage of capillary action, the phenomenon at work when liquids seem to defy gravity and travel up a…
C&EN Senior Editor Alexander Tullo notes that the catalysts, called “metallocenes,” engendered excitement years ago because they allowed production of stronger…
On October 19, it conducted the first type tests in its new capacity. At the facility near Walenstadt, the WSL type-tested to European standard a protection…
A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Science and Engineering Professor Chang-Beom Eom has demonstrated methods to harness essentially this…
Graphene has several properties that make it different from literally everything else on Earth: it is the first two-dimensional material ever developed; the…
This type of circuit adapts the voltage, current, and frequency to the electrical consumer, for instance, a lamp. In order to save space, as many components as…
At some point it catches up with everyone. With increasing age joints and bones wear out. When for instance the cartilage, functioning as cushions between the…
That finding recently moved from Williams’ laboratory at the Institute for Transportation’s Asphalt Materials and Pavements Program at Iowa State to a…
Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells for…
Manufacturers build silicon-based devices from layers of different materials. Bonds – the chemical interaction between adjacent atoms – are what give materials…
Polymeric solar cells are made of thin layers of interpenetrating structures from two different conducting plastics and are increasingly popular because they…
The achievement, which is the result of more than five years of effort, is described by Professor of Chemistry Piotr Kaszynski and graduate student Bryan…
Lanky models strutting in cotton, linen and silk, making statement for beautiful creations – why not make statement with a ‘pineapple’? Alluring dresses from…