A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid ...
The focus topic of the January issue of the European Coatings Journal is functional coatings. In his technical paper Dr Jamil Baghdachi provides an overview ...
Five technology centres have developed new coatings for plastics, wood, metal, ceramics and glass, which allow giving new properties to these traditional materials. ...
A combination of nano-sized pores and the use of a special coating called preen oil makes Antarctic penguin feathers ultra-water-repelling, which keeps them...
American researchers report a simple and straightforward method to prepare omniphobic surfaces that they believe to be as good or better than reported methods....
Self-cleaning fluoropolymer-TiO2 coatings have been in focus as a promising group of materials for a number of years due to their favourable combination of...
Recent advances and ongoing improvements will help rapid and low-cost development of smart materials, and the next wave of innovation will be in self-healing ...
A new self-healing concrete aims to reduce the requirement for maintenance of structures over the long term by slowing down the effects of deterioration due ...
A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process, like that used to print newspapers and crisp packets,...
If you've ever waited on an airport runway for your plane to be de-iced, had to remove all your food so the freezer could defrost, or arrived late to work because...
Cracks in concrete can self-heal when exposed to prolonged wetting, but this is limited to narrow cracks. In practice, cracks > 0.2 mm cause leakage and...
