Renishaw plans to showcase its 3D printing products for different industries at Formnext, taking place in Frankfurt, Germany, from 19–22 November 2019.
31 October 2019
Scientists have discovered that chains of atoms can dash around at lightning speeds inside the cubic phase of pure titanium.
31 October 2019
Improving on Dirac cone approximation in graphene thermionic emission
31 October 2019Laurie Donaldson
Rockwood Composites says that that it had delivered its 2,500th part to Roxel, a European manufacturer of tactical propulsion systems.
30 October 2019
Euro PM2019 attracted over 300 oral and poster presentations and over 1100 participants, while the exhibition featured over 100 exhibiting companies.
30 October 2019
Additive Industries says that it has launched its sixth Additive World Design for Additive Manufacturing Challenge.
30 October 2019
Gurit says that it plans to close its automotive production site in Hungary in 2020.
30 October 2019
Scientists have shown that the presence of certain compounds in the liquid electrolyte of lithium batteries prompts the growth of dendrites and whiskers.
30 October 2019
A subtle interaction between single atomic defects in the 2D material tungsten diselenide and mechanical strain causes it to emit quantum light.
30 October 2019
XG Sciences, which makes graphene nanoplatelets, has finalized a development agreement with filament producer Terrafilum.
29 October 2019
GKN Powder Metallurgy, a major producer of metal powder and parts, plans to acquire Forecast 3D, a specialist in plastic additive manufacturing.
29 October 2019
Shedding light on biomimetics
29 October 2019David Bradley
Navigational tools from the 16th century have helped researchers understand how polymer spheres can be transformed into twisted spindles.
29 October 2019
Due to a new quantum mechanism, the heat generated by friction is significantly lower in topological insulators than in conventional materials.
29 October 2019
3D printing organization America Makes has presented its Distinguished Collaborator award to Ralph Resnick and Rob Gorham.
28 October 2019
Höganäs says that its new atomizing plant has received building approval by the local council.
28 October 2019
Material with unconventional behavior affected by strong magnetic fields
28 October 2019Laurie Donaldson
Somerset Community College has received a second National Science Foundation grant award to improve 3D printing in Tennessee and Kentucky.
25 October 2019
Janet Mitchell from the UK’s National Composite Centre will receive 2019’s Outstanding Contribution to the Composites Industry award.
25 October 2019
Thai composites company Cobra International Ltd is collaborating with robotics specialist Obodroid to build a new security robot.
25 October 2019
Umicore has reportedly opened a new production facility for fuel cell catalysts in SongDo Incheon City (Seoul area), Korea.
25 October 2019
New technique for 3D printing of soft materials with additive manufacturing
25 October 2019Laurie Donaldson
The Powder Coating Institute (PCI) has published the program for the Powder Coating Week 2020, taking place from 17–20 February in Orlando, FL, USA.
24 October 2019
The University of Manchester and masterbatch specialist the Colloids Group have joined forces to research graphene nanocomposites in thermoplastics.
24 October 2019
An alloy-based nanoparticle catalyst offers a greener route to producing a more robust version of a polymer used in bulletproof vests.
24 October 2019
Electric current can simultaneously flow clockwise and counterclockwise in a ring of a polycrystalline material made from bismuth and palladium.
24 October 2019
Scientists have produced a heavy fermion material with superconducting regions coexisting alongside regions in a normal metallic state.
24 October 2019
BASF SE has reduced the size of the company’s board of executive directors from seven to six members, as part of ‘ongoing efficiency measures’.
23 October 2019
Sandvik has reported revenues of SEK 25,163 million in Q3 2019, compared to SEK 24 283 million in the same period of the previous year.
23 October 2019
Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts plans to open a new €8.4 million facility focusing on additive manufacturing (AM).
23 October 2019
A novel mathematical approach based on graph theory can predict which pairs of zeolite types can be transformed from one to the other.
23 October 2019
Researchers have developed silk materials that can wrinkle into highly detailed patterns, which can be erased by flooding the silk surface with vapor.
23 October 2019
Researchers have gained new insights into high-entropy alloys by using X-ray spectroscopy to create atomic-resolution chemical maps of them.
23 October 2019
Royal DSM plans to offer a full bio/recycled range of its engineering plastics by 2030.
22 October 2019
Metal powder specialist Höganäs AB has been awarded the Industry Gender Equality Prize 2019 by the Swedish government.
22 October 2019
Financial Times and Inclusive Boards have named Sandvik board member Jennifer Allerton as one of the 100 most influential women in Engineering in the UK.
22 October 2019
The superconducting state of uranium ditelluride rises, breaks down and then re-emerges on exposure to very strong magnetic field.
22 October 2019
Sigmatex plans to showcase its custom weave carbon fabric at the Advanced Engineering Show, taking place in Birmingham, UK and the end of October.
21 October 2019
Engineers have identified two aspects of the interaction between a metal and its alloying material that can predict how a particular alloy will behave.
21 October 2019
Complex shape-shifting lattices composed of multiple elastomeric materials can grow or shrink in response to changes in temperature.
21 October 2019
Researchers have developed an artificial, layered crystal composed of the elements lanthanum, titanium, cobalt and oxygen in atom-thick sheets.
21 October 2019
Umicore has reportedly renewed its global sustainable development agreement with union federation IndustriALL Global Union for another four years.
18 October 2019
The MPIF says that its next PM parts compacting/tooling seminar will take place in State College, Pennsylvania, from 19-20 November 2019.
18 October 2019
Compotech AG UK says that it will be sharing a stand with rubber company Flexix SA at the Advanced Engineering show.
18 October 2019
Researchers have found that submerging a polymer in liquid water can boost its ability to selectively remove carbon dioxide from gas mixtures.
18 October 2019
By simply adding a trace amount of copper, scientists have created the strongest ever silver without reducing its electrical conductivity.
18 October 2019
Scientists have discovered that the magic angle at which two layers of graphene become superconducting is slightly wider than originally thought.
18 October 2019
Siemens and Materials Solutions, a Siemens business, have opened an innovation center in Orlando, Florida.
17 October 2019
IT company Allplan Infrastructure has developed 4D building information modeling (BIM) software for designing bridges.
17 October 2019
Gurit has reported net sales of CHF428.5 million for the first nine months of 2019, an increase of 45.1%.
17 October 2019
Thomas F Murphy, FAPMI, Hoeganaes Corporation, will be running an APMI Regional Technical Program on 9 December, in Philadelpha, USA.
17 October 2019
Using a silver substrate and molecular-beam epitaxy , scientists were able to grow elongated, hexagon-shaped flakes of the 2D material borophene.
17 October 2019
3D printing company EOS has appointed Marie Langer as its new CEO.
16 October 2019
Equispheres says that in tests its metal powders allowed for a 50% increase in production speeds and a 20-30% increase in a-basis mechanical performance.
16 October 2019
The Rhode Island government has awarded $1 million in funding to non-profit state organization Polaris MEP.
16 October 2019
Researchers have found that graphene has many of the same mechanical properties as 3D graphite and is significantly thicker than widely believed.
16 October 2019
A new model suggests that high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates arises when electrons hop from atom-to-atom in a particular pattern.
16 October 2019
The 10th International Conference on Tungsten, Refractory & Hardmaterials (Tungsten2020) has announced a call for papers.
15 October 2019
Spanish company MontefibreCarbon has received €5.6 million from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade & Tourism.
15 October 2019
3D printing company America Makes has appointed Dr Brandon Ribic as its new technology director.
15 October 2019
A new process termed ‘flash sintering’ can help overcome the brittle nature of ceramics and make them more ductile and durable.
15 October 2019
novel electroluminescent device uses flexible, electrically conductive Ag-coated nylon fibers embedded in a PDMS + ZnS composite as electrodes
15 October 2019Cordelia Sealy
As a step towards fabricating circuits from nanomaterials, engineers have created heterostructures from the 2D materials graphene and borophene.
15 October 2019
Engineers have harnessed machine learning to design dielectric metamaterials that absorb and emit specific frequencies of terahertz radiation.
15 October 2019
Umicore says that it has reportedly changes its current corporate governance model.
14 October 2019
The Technical University of Munich (TUM), Oerlikon, GE Additive and Linde have created an additive manufacturing (AM) cluster in Bavaria, Germany.
14 October 2019
By combining different materials, scientists have created highly configurable, nanoscale thermal light emitters for producing light from heat.
14 October 2019
Scientists have found a new way to manipulate the electronic properties of 2D tungsten disulfide that could prove useful for quantum computing.
14 October 2019
UK-based MSA Manufacturing Ltd (MSA) has added new factory space and improved its processes for reinforcement kitting and preforming.
10 October 2019
Dura Composites has reportedly achieved Gold level status with Constructionline, a UK procurement and supply chain management service.
10 October 2019
Adhesive specialist Henkel has reached a material supply agreement with an Australian manufacturer of one-piece automotive carbon composite wheels.
10 October 2019
The National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) has elected Paul K Oldroyd to its board of directors.
10 October 2019
Additive manufacturing (AM) company VELO3D has reported what it says is record sales growth in Q3, with sales totaling US$15 million.
10 October 2019
Element Materials Technology has announced that its current CFO, Jo Wetz, will succeed Charles Noall as CEO.
10 October 2019
Aerogel support for enzymes
10 October 2019David Bradley
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, Chemistry Nobel 2019
10 October 2019David Bradley
Researchers have created a net-like structure, called a ‘nanochain’, of antimony, which can enhance lithium-ion charge capacity in batteries.
10 October 2019
Researchers have found that a crystal made of cobalt, manganese and gallium is a room-temperature topological magnet that hosts quantum loops.
10 October 2019
Standards developer ASTM International has announced a second round of funding to support additive manufacturing (AM) standards research.
9 October 2019
Plansee has reportedly begun construction on a new training center in Breitenwang, Austria.
9 October 2019
3D printing company Desktop Metal has launched H13 tool steel powder for its Studio System
prototyping and low volume production printer.
9 October 2019
Plansee and Ceratizit say that 41 apprentices have started their vocational training at the companies.
9 October 2019
Laser physicist Dr Constantin Häfner has been appointed the new director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT).
9 October 2019
The EPMA says that it will hold a meeting to discuss implementing a project focused on analysing PM mechanical behavior and microstructures.
9 October 2019
Chemicals company Evonik reports that it is expanding capacity for polyamide 12 (PA 12) by more than 50% at its largest site in Marl, Germany.
9 October 2019
Solvay says that it is expanding its thermoplastic composites capacity with a new production line at its US facility in Anaheim, California, USA.
9 October 2019
Composites UK has published a good practice guide covering the fire performance of fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRPs).
9 October 2019
Smart skin that responds to heat and sunlight
9 October 2019Laurie Donaldson
Films of platinum only two atoms thick supported by graphene could usher in fuel cell catalysts with unprecedented catalytic activity and longevity.
9 October 2019
Adding spider silk protein to wood cellulose nanofibrils makes tougher, but flexible composite
8 October 2019David Bradley
Researchers have shown that ultrasonic waves produced by an acoustic transducer can manipulate the viscosity of shear-thickening materials.
8 October 2019
Researchers have found that doping indium oxide with molybdenum rather than tin doubles the conductivity of this transparent conductor.
8 October 2019
A Lewis acid offers an effective way to change the electrical properties of certain organic semiconductors, but only in the presence of water.
7 October 2019
A silicone polymer embedded with temperature-sensitive dyes and liquid metal wires can carry out simple logic functions in response to touch.
7 October 2019
Coating chlorine-etched aluminum foil with carbon nanotubes created a material that is 10 times blacker than anything previously reported.
4 October 2019
Chemicals company BASF says that it has increased its neopentylglycol (NPG) production capacity in Germany by 10,000 metric tons per year.
3 October 2019
The organizers of Composites in Motorsport have released the program for the event.
3 October 2019
Verder Scientific has agreed to acquire all shares of Chinese company EZ-mat and become its sole owner.
3 October 2019
The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) has revised its Infrared Process Heating Handbook for Industrial Applications.
3 October 2019
Plastics technology center AIMPLAS says that it is working on a project aimed at developing a ‘smart’ system for the plastics sector.
2 October 2019
The organizers of the ceramitec conference says that, in its new format, it welcomed over 200 attendees from 21 countries.
2 October 2019
The ThermoPlastic Composites Research Center (TPRC), based in the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has reportedly celebrated its tenth anniversary.
2 October 2019
The EPMA says that a newly updated Euro PM2019 Congress and Exhibition technical program is now online.
1 October 2019
3D printing company Additive Industries says that it has signed an agency agreement with two new sale agents.
1 October 2019
Spirit AeroSystems says that it has received an Award for Composite Excellence in Manufacturing Material and Process Innovation.
1 October 2019
Dieffenbacher and Arburg plan to join forces to develop new processes for the transfer molding of hybrid components.
1 October 2019
An examination of the hybrid GRP sandwich underlay.
1 October 2019P. G. F. Bosman, R. Verleg, J. G. H. Bouwmeester
Crystallographic dislocations can impact the ability of halide perovskites to hold energy derived from light in the form of excited electrons.
1 October 2019
Smallest ever spectrometer based on a single nanowire
1 October 2019Laurie Donaldson