Composite adhesives like epoxy resins are excellent tools for joining and filling materials including wood, metal, and concrete. But there's one problem: once a composite sets, it's there forever. Now ...

Modern portable and wearable electronic devices increasingly integrate high-performance components and wireless communication technologies. While this integration enhances functionality, it also ...

Conductive putty-like polymer composites have recently received considerable attention in wearable electronics, soft robotics, and energy storage due to their unique electrical and mechanical ...

Highly electrically conductive polymer composites are fundamental materials for today’s electronic engineering. However, these composites are very expensive since heavy loading of costly conductive ...

3D printing technology is used not only to build things as large as houses, but also as small as snowflakes. A new material allows the latter to be much stronger than ever before, and to be printed ...

In a win for chemistry, inventors have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing an exceptionally tough carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer and later recovering all of its starting materials. In a win ...

An extruded wood polymer composite (WPC) green body that has then been carbonized into a porous preform and then processed via silicon melt infiltration into a high-performance silicon carbide (SiC) ...

Distinguished R&D Staff, part of the Soft Materials and Membranes group within the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge ...

Wind turbine blades are being buried at their end of life (EOL), a practice soon to be prohibited by landfill bans taking effect across Europe in 2025. With a forecast of 43 million tons to be ...

Silica nanoparticles affixed with a distribution of polystyrene chains (purple) self-assemble into hexagonal lattices. Depending on how the chains are organized on the particle surface, they tangle ...

The French group Michelin has signed agreements to acquire the North American Cooley Group and Tex Tech Industries, both leading companies in the field of coated fabrics and specialty textiles. The ...

Researchers evaluated how wood dust affects PLA parts printed by FFF, and the results could change how makers and manufacturers approach bio-filled filaments.