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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

The first prototypes involved the use of silicon and glass plates that are 0.2–0.3 mm in thickness connected by rubber-like layers with a thickness of a mere few hundred nanometers. Various tests have ...

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.

Examples of polymers are silk, rubber, silicone, DNA and proteins ... Several key physical properties of the polyethylene films are presented, and their potential applications in nuclear fusion ...

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 ...

"We are an engineered materials provider, from engineered resins using silicone and PTFE, to where we also play in a space that includes non-commodity resins, where we are dealing with premium stuff," ...