Nine innovative technologies from The Dow Chemical Co. won 10 R&D 100 awards at a recognition event on Nov. 17, 2017. Among the award winners were several coatings and adhesives technologies.
Synthetic microspheres with nanoscale holes can absorb light from all directions across a wide range of frequencies, making the spheres a candidate for antireflective coatings, according to a team of Penn State engineers.
Monitor Coatings Ltd. has received funding from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to work in collaboration with Cranfield University to develop low-cost customizable coatings that can coat 3D geometries while protecting against aggressive high-temperature environments.
Commuters, skiers, crossing guards and others who endure frozen fingers in cold weather may look forward to future relief as manufacturers are poised to take advantage of a new technique for creating electrically heated cloth developed by materials scientist Trisha Andrew and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Wageningen University & Research and IPSS Engineering have signed a long-term cooperation agreement for the further development, optimization and commercialization of the new anti-solvent crystallization technology ProKris.
Estron Chemical announced the groundbreaking of its new Research and Development (R&D) Center, located at the company’s headquarters in Calvert City, Kentucky.
Four students from University of Colorado - Boulder won the third annual BASF science competition, held at the company’s coatings headquarters in Southfield, Michigan.
Paint and coatings manufacturer Cloverdale Paint Inc. announced the opening of a new Coatings Research & Development Laboratory in Surrey, British Columbia.
