Researchers have developed a durable, inexpensive coating that can create ice repelling on a v ...
Conference for innovation managers and heads of R&D provides insights into the future of coatings technology from ...
Artificial special wetting surfaces have drawn much interest due to their important applications in many fields.
A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Insti ...
The focus topic of the January issue of the European Coatings Journal is functional coatings. In his technical paper ...
Five technology centres have developed new coatings for plastics, wood, metal, ceramics and gl ...
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 ice-free.
American researchers report a simple and straightforward method to prepare omniphobic surfaces that they believe to b ...
Self-cleaning fluoropolymer-TiO2 coatings have been in focus as a promising group o ...
Recent advances and ongoing improvements will help rapid and low-cost development of smart mat ...
A new self-healing concrete aims to reduce the requirement for maintenance of structures over ...
A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll pri ...
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 you had to scrape the sheet of ice off your car windshield, you know ...
Cracks in concrete can self-heal when exposed to prolonged wetting, but this is limited to nar ...
Inorganic nanoparticles with UV-absorbing properties are an important class of UV filters. ...
During the last few years, different kinds of autonomic and non-autonomic self-healing materia ...
A research project is seeking new design-driven applications for cellulose and is developing r ...
Car scratches, a crack in a crash helmet or a broken toy. None of this is a problem anymore th ...