All about paints and coatings
Throughout history, people have sought vibrant blue pigments. The Egyptians and Babylonians used lapis lazuli 6,000 years ago. In 1802,
Building materials that clean themselves could save immense time and labor in homes and businesses, as well as reduce disease
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Every day, more than 141 billion liters of water are used solely to flush toilets. With millions of global citizens
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Buildings devote more than 30% of their energy use to heating, cooling, and lighting systems. Passive designs such as cool
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RUDN University chemists have developed a simple and convenient method for producing derivatives of the natural polymer chitosan. These derivatives
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Aalto University researchers have developed a new way of making garments water-resistant with wax obtained from Brazilian palm tree leaves.
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Researchers in China have developed a rewriteable paper coating that can encrypt secret information with relatively low-tech invisible ink —
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More than many other auto parts, brake discs are subject to repeated mechanical loads. As a result of this continual
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Hope has been restored for the rechargeable lithium metal battery – a potential battery powerhouse relegated for decades to the
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A team of international scientists has found an environmentally friendly way of producing potential sunscreens by using cashew nut shells,
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A pigment package designed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to slow discoloration of the exterior coating on surface
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Not only are greasy fingerprints on shiny stainless steel surfaces unattractive, they also attack the surface in question. A new
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Scientists chemically treated the surface of wire-looking nanostructures made of zinc oxide to apply a uniform coating of titanium dioxide;
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Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) is joining textile technology experts Xefco and engineering equipment specialists Proficiency Contracting on a
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The World Health Organization warns that antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest global threats and predicts that worldwide death rates from
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Center for Corrosion Science and Engineering developed a safer and user-friendly topcoat that was recently
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AIMPLAS is participating in the DECOAT project. The project consortium, led by Belgian R&D centre CENTEXBEL, consists of 17 partners
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, TEES, were recently awarded a grant from the U.S.
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden have developed a new production process with
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A protective layer of epoxy resin helps prevent the leakage of pollutants from perovskite solar cells (PSCs), report scientists from
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Unlike water, liquid refrigerants and other fluids that have a low surface tension tend to spread quickly into a sheet
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Building a better lithium-ion battery involves addressing a myriad of factors simultaneously, from keeping the battery’s cathode electrically and ionically
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Whether in agriculture, industry or private households, chemicals are needed everywhere. However, their production requires a very large amount of
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A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is a step closer thanks
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Demand for organic products is booming. Factory farms and fields drenched in chemical cocktails hold little appeal for the many
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HefCel-coated wood (left) and untreated wood (right) after 30 seconds flame test. (Credit: VTT) A spray- or brush-applied fire retardant
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A new class of coatings that sheds ice effortlessly from even large surfaces has moved researchers closer to their decades-long
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Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image ofBacillus timonensis. Credit: Jinglin Hu/Northwestern University Antimicrobial paints offer the promise of extra protection against
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Friction, corrosion, and biofilms are three major problems in shipping. The research project “Air-retaining Surfaces” (ARES) – a collaboration project
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Lithium cobalt oxide particles coated in graphene. Credit: Reza Shahbazian-Yassar. Lithium batteries are what allow electric vehicles to travel several
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