Shape shifting mirror opens a vista for the future
A team of researchers from JTEC Corporation and Osaka University developed a bimorph deformable mirror that allows for precise shape modification and usage under vacuum, a world first.
A team of researchers from JTEC Corporation and Osaka University developed a bimorph deformable mirror that allows for precise shape modification and usage under vacuum, a world first.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 28, 2019
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Rice University scientists have built a better epoxy for electronic applications.
Nanomaterials
Nov 14, 2018
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A special formula for epoxy resins has been developed at TU Wien, which can be used for fibre-reinforced composites in aerospace, shipbuilding and automotive manufacturing, or even for underwater renovation. This is achieved ...
Engineering
Jun 4, 2018
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NUST MISIS scientists have developed composites that conduct heat many times better than their counterparts and are even subject to simple and cheap processing. By using the newly obtained technology in modern electronics, ...
Materials Science
Apr 4, 2018
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ESA's Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) will be on view to visitors at next month's ESA Open Day in the Netherlands, along with other facilities in the establishment's Test Centre.
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2017
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It may appear to be a nondescript, transparent, viscous liquid, but all you have to do is irradiate any part of it briefly with UV light and it changes completely. The new special resin formulation developed at TU Wien solidifies ...
Polymers
Sep 30, 2016
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A lightweight telescope that a team of NASA scientists and engineers is developing specifically for CubeSat scientific investigations could become the first to carry a mirror made of carbon nanotubes in an epoxy resin.
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2016
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Restorers put their work on the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun on display in Cairo on Tuesday, over a year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued back on with epoxy.
Archaeology
Oct 20, 2015
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Despite their small size and simple structure, carbon nanotubes—essentially sheets of graphene rolled up into straws—have all sorts of potentially useful properties. Still, while their promise looms large, how to fully ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 30, 2015
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Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3-D printing technology.
Materials Science
Nov 18, 2014
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