News tagged with steel surface

'Killer stainless steel': New process

(Phys.org) -- Stainless steel is the icon of cleanliness for home and commercial kitchens, restaurants, hospitals and other settings, but it can collect disease-causing bacteria like other surfaces if not ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Antibacterial stainless steel created

Materials scientists at the University of Birmingham have devised a way of making stainless steel surfaces resistant to bacteria in a project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council which culminated ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Machine vision for hot surface automatic inspection

TECNALIA Technological Corporation is developing an innovative application for the automatic inspection of hot steel surfaces, based on Machine Vision technologies that enhance quality control in hot rolling mill processes.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Copper can help in the battle against influenza A H1N1, scientist says

A leading microbiologist from the University of Southampton has told a conference that his research has found copper is effective in inhibiting the influenza A H1N1 virus.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2




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Making microscopic machines using metallic glass

Researchers in Ireland have developed a new technology using materials called bulk metallic glasses to produce high-precision molds for making tiny plastic components. The components, with detailed microscopically patterned ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NIST hydrogen fuel materials test facility starts delivering data

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published their first archival paper based on data from the institute’s new hydrogen test facility. The paper ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Functional coatings from the plasma nozzle

These coatings offer protection against rust, scratches and moisture and improve adhesion: Surfaces with a nano coating. A new plasma process enables these coatings to be applied more easily and cost-efficiently ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New rearing system may aid sterile insect technique against mosquitoes

Scientists at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency have developed a larval rearing unit based on a tray and rack system that is expected to be able ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ancient volcanic blast provides more evidence of water on early Mars

(Phys.org) -- The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth’s. It’s one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Earthquake model explains Hydra's regenerative prowess

When the Greek hero Hercules sliced through one of the Lernaean Hydra's nine heads, two grew back in its place. This mythical creature's real life counterparts, a genus of tiny cylindrical animals known as ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DARPA seeks non-thermal approaches to thin-film deposition

When the Department of Defense (DoD) wants to build a jet engine, it doesn’t put a team of engineers in a hangar with a block of metal and some chisels.  Jet engines are made up of individual components ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Smart bridges: Engineers load new bridge with damage-detection gauges

The new bridge over the Iowa River near downtown Iowa Falls is a major upgrade over the 1928 concrete arch structure it replaced last fall, once the longest arch span bridge in the state.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Endangered bats find sanctuary in Israeli 'ghost bunkers'

Abandoned army bunkers along the Jordan River have become a habitat for 12 indigenous bat species, three of which are already designated as endangered and two that are on the critical list. The bats were recently identified ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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