Pilot Chemical Co., Cincinnati, is investing $5 million this year – and tens of millions of dollars over the next five years – in technology and innovation.
Researchers at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, have chemically imprinted polymer particles with DNA strands – a technique that could lead to new materials for applications ranging from biomedicine to the promising field of "soft robotics."
RadTech, the non-profit for ultraviolet and electron beam (UV+EB) processes, announced the formation of RadLaunch, a unique, technology accelerator that will support early-stage start-ups and small businesses as they drive advancements in clean, sustainable, efficient, and energy-saving, next-generation technologies.
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.
