Airplanes, cars, and ships that don’t corrode are the promise of self-healing paint coatings and polymer materials. Now researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and ...

Many new materials have been developed, but steel remains the principal construction material for automobiles, appliances, and industrial machinery. Because of steel's vulnerability to attack by ...

As composites practitioners well know, tooling for composite parts is a challenge. Metal tools are the most robust option and support rate production, but they need to be carefully engineered to match ...

The use of natural materials in construction continues to rise as AEC teams look to both reduce their carbon footprint and create an environment that fosters wellness and harmony with nature. From the ...

CHICAGO – Great Lakes Metal Coating recently hosted an open house highlighting its liquid metal veneer coating process. The unique and innovative coating, which gives the look of real metal can be ...

Metal coatings are applied on all kinds of items made of alloys, metals and plastics. These are used either for decorative platings or to enhance the chemical and physical properties of their surface ...

Corrosion in metals can lead to the structural fatigue or failure of bridges, pipelines, and plane fuselages. Anti-corrosion coatings help prevent this, but they become ineffective when pierced, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global metal coatings market report. This research report also lists five other prominent vendors that are ...

Lithium-metal battery anodes can store 10-fold more energy by weight than those in today’s best batteries, but they have been too unstable to be practical. Now, researchers have borrowed technology ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois have developed "self-healing" coatings for metals and pipelines. The researchers say the coatings contain micro-capsules which release materials to repair ...

WASHINGTON, Mo. – A new aluminum coil coating facility is in the works for Franklin County. AZZ Precoat Metals, a provider of coil coating solutions, is planning to build a facility in Washington, ...