At this year’s COMPAMED medical technology tradeshow, WACKER will be presenting customized silicone rubber grades that set ...

In recent years silicone has become a preferred material across various industries thanks to its versatility durability and adaptability From healthcare to automotive household goods to electronics si ...

Lübeck, Germany – The AMSil™ 20503 series is an advanced development for Additive Manufacturing (AM) / 3D Printing applications based on tailored Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) formulations. This range ...

Vibration-absorbing, sound-damping materials such as sheets of rubber and expanded foam tend ... with layers of PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) silicone that were just a few hundred nanometers thick.

Elkem's AMSil and AMSil Silbione series of products won an R&D 100 Award in 2021. The Oslo-based manufacturer is set to ...

Roof shingles can be made from many materials ... mold spots. Rubber is also easy to repair. You can cover small holes or splits with weatherstripping tape or fill them with liquid rubber.

Materials researchers have created a new composite material that combines two incompatible properties: stiff yet with a high damping capacity. A compressor hums, an air conditioning system rattles ...

Learn about our editorial policies A liquid asset is an asset that can ... a report in August 2024 indicating that residential properties spent 2.5 median months on the market in 2023, increasing ...

A team of scientists has introduced an electron beam irradiation (EBI)-assisted coating method that provides a reliable and scalable approach to control surface wetting properties. Their work is ...

To achieve this, they fabricated their bifocal lens from liquid crystal materials. Liquid crystals comprise molecules that can flow like in a liquid, but can maintain specific orientations – like ...

Materials science and engineering seeks to understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties of existing materials through structure modification and ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Materials like metal, concrete and chemicals are the foundation of the global economy—every sector requires basic materials ...