A type of beetle capable of regulating its body temperature in some of the hottest places on Earth is the centerpiece of new research with major potential implications for cooling everything from buildings to electronic devices in an environmentally friendly manner.
Elisa Arikan has won the second FEICA/EURADH Adhesion Innovation Award for her paper, "Structural Adhesive Bonding of Polymers — Surface Characteristics and Adhesion Mechanism."
A new artificial intelligence-based approach developed at MIT could reduce to a matter of milliseconds the time it takes to determine properties of materials such as protective coatings, making it practical to screen vast arrays of candidate materials.
Consulting firm Frost & Sullivan announced that NBD Nano's InvisiPrint® won its New Product Innovation Award for anti-fingerprint coatings in the electronics industry.
To attract more experts and graduates to study adhesion and bonding, FEICA — The Association of the European Adhesive & Sealant Industry — is now maintaining an overview of the adhesion and bonding courses across Europe.
Engineers at the University of Houston are using chitin – a derivative of glucose found in the cellular walls of arthropods and fungi – and 3D printing techniques to produce high-impact multilayered coatings that can protect soldiers against bullets, lasers, toxic gas and other dangers.
The Canadian Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) has weighed in on a decision by the Canadian Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) Jeff Yurek, to return a significant portion of the $53 million in surplus funds accumulated from environmental fees charged by Stewardship Ontario over the past 10 years for waste recycling.
A proposed ASTM International standard will allow manufacturers to make better use of portable goniometers to measure angles of drops of liquid when applied to a surface for testing the wettability of coatings, substrates and pigments.
The International Ultraviolet Association and RadTech North America issued a joint press release discouraging the use of UV light on the human body to disinfect against COVID-19.
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