Fabricators and processors alike demand consistently high quality for their intermediate and final products. The properties of these goods usually also have to meet specific requirements.
A team of international scientists, including Dr. Stuart Prescott from The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), has discovered there is something missing from 1991 Nobel Prize winner French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’ theory on polymers.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing one-time reporting and record-keeping requirements on nanoscale chemical substances in the marketplace.
More than 80 percent of microbial infections in the human body are caused by a build-up of bacteria, according to the National Institutes of Health. Bacteria cells gain a foothold in the body by accumulating and forming into adhesive colonies called biofilms, which help them to thrive and survive but cause infections and associated life-threatening risks to their human hosts.
Nissan has blazed a trail by driving its unique glow-in-the-dark zero-emission LEAF along the world's first glow-in-the-dark motorway in Oss, the Netherlands.
Integrating sustainable practices into its day-to-day operations, Almouj Marina at The Wave, Muscat in Oman has teamed up with researchers from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman's only public university, in a unique project to develop technologically enhanced, nontoxic coatings to be used on boats, submerged structures and industrial equipment.
For much the same reason LCD televisions offer eye-popping performance, a thermomagnetic processing method developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) can advance the performance of polymers.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that nominations are being accepted for members to serve on the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee.
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