A leading plastics re-processor is urging product designers to ‘challenge the norms’ with clients and think along more ‘circular’ lines to encourage greater uptake of recycled polymers in new goods.
Autotex Steel, a high-performance, hard-coated film from MacDermid Autotype, delivers an attractive and robust brushed steel finish to Hoffmann + Krippner’s flexx-IPC control panels that sets them apart from the competition.
Graphene can be used to investigate how light interacts with nano-antennas, potentially increasing the efficiency of solar cells and photo detectors.
Researchers at Harvard SEAS, the University of Illinois, and University of Pittsburgh have been awarded a grant to develop '4D printing' of functionally adaptive materials.
The footprint of any machine is very important and, for that reason elements are made as small as possible, compatible with the task that they are required to perform. Roger Haw explains the considerations that need to be taken into account by designers when choosing surface hardening for such components.