Category: Advanced Materials

Materion’s MMCs Provide Aerospace Engineers with New Design Options

The Super-lightweight Aerospace Composites (SAC) project seeks to scale up the manufacturing and the use of high-strength carbon nanotube composite materials.

A U.S. Army research center awarded an initial $9 million contract to NuMat Technologies, Inc., to develop and manufacture next-generation materials that will protect and sustain soldiers from toxic weapons attacks.

An innovative filtering material may soon reduce the environmental cost of manufacturing plastic.

Johnson Matthey obtains license for GEMX advanced battery material platform

The resulting products are expected to have applications in medical imaging, scientific instrumentation, particle physics research, and large-scale fusion experiments.

Under Artemis’s ownership, STC will continue to operate as an independent company from its headquarters in St. Albans.

RAC Corporation recently opened its doors to provide unique, cutting-edge services for its clients in the dental and biotechnology industries.

Xtalic brings nano-scale metal alloys and coatings to electric vehicle market

Hexion Inc. has entered a three-year contract with the Fraunhofer Project Center in London, Ontario, Canada, to continue their joint efforts to develop lightweight composite technologies and high-performance systems designed to meet the demand for mass produced autos

Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that “good things come in small packages.”

Victrex has developed two new materials—a high strength material for laser sintering (LS) and a filament reported to have better Z-strength than existing polyaryletherketone (PAEK) materials—that the company is preparing for use in additive manufacturing