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In the 1930s, Irving Langmuir and his colleague Katharine Blodgett were working long days in the General Electric Company’s research laboratory. Together, they discovered that by spreading molecules with volatile organic solvents on the surface of water, they could create a one-molecule-thick film and use it as an anti-reflective coating for glass.

Honoring the lives of those who served in the U.S. military with monuments and memorials is a time-honored tradition. Ensuring that those monuments are kept in pristine condition for the lives they represent is a Western Specialty Contractors priority.

Jaime Gili, a Venezuelan artist living in London, has a passion for painting abstract art in unusual places and on unusual things. For his latest project, Nomonochrome, Gili is creating his art on a series of timeless cars using Cromax^®, one of the three premium global refinish brands of Axalta Coating Systems, to get the finish he wants.

A smarter approach to applying advanced thin-film coatings to high-value engineering products is being developed by Teer Coatings, Cobham Technical Services and The Open University.

The Tank of the Year contest, a national water storage tank competition, presented by Tnemec Co. Inc., has concluded, and this year's winner is the City of Cocoa, FL.

Manufacturers in industries ranging from aerospace and oil and gas to automotive rely on thermal spray coatings during the production of many of their key products.

TC American Monorail installed a custom configured XP INTERLOCK™ spark-resistant transfer crane in a paint booth area with flammable solvent fumes.

Choosing a color for a new home can be a difficult decision. Selecting one single pigment for a home’s exterior takes time and consideration. When a family building a home in the California countryside was faced with this decision in early 2015, they turned to Valspar for help.

The wonders of epoxy are clear to those who deal with it on a regular basis. The strength of its bounding characteristics, and the nice, durable sheen it leaves as a coating, and the flexibility it offers for varying applications, make epoxy a truly amazing compound.

Improvement in the performance of a cylindrical punching tool for hardness and wear resistance was tested after the use of direct metal deposition (DMD) to deposit an additional material on the tool surface.