A Missouri University of Science and Technology effort to investigate environmentally benign, corrosion-resistant coatings for military aircraft and other weapons systems has received national recognition from the U.S. Defense Department.
A nanoscale coating that's at least 95 percent air repels the broadest range of liquids of any material in its class, causing them to bounce off the treated surface, according to the University of Michigan engineering researchers who developed it.
Bio-based polymers have been largely limited to specialized niche applications, but a new analysis from Lux Research finds that the top markets for bio-based materials are largely the same ones currently dominated by petro-based materials.
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original.
Scientists at Imperial College London are set to receive over £4.5 million of public funding to investigate how graphene can drive improvements in high-tech industries such as aerospace design and medical technologies.
PPG Industries has received a $1.5 million award from the federal government’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) to develop a chemical-agent-resistant coating (CARC) in powder form for use on military vehicles and support equipment.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. has developed the Honda Smart Ecological Paint (Honda S.E. Paint) process, a painting technology that eliminates a middle coating process from a commonly used four-coat/three-bake auto-body painting process to a three-coat/two-bake water-based painting process.
