What can the U.S. military learn from a common squid? According to researchers at UC Irvine’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering, it can learn a lot about how to hide from enemies.
Specialty chemicals and performance materials company Cabot Corp., Boston, has been designated the winner of Best Overall Innovation and Innovation with Best Environmental Benefit at the 10th annual ICIS Innovation Awards 2013.
Flexible displays, cost-efficient solar cells for a new era of energy production, futuristic lighting at home all require thin layers with specific properties. Scientists at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials are exploring new routes to such coatings in NanoSPEKT, a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Emerald Specialties, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed SiWax Group, based in Milan, Italy, and Madrid, Spain, to become the exclusive distributor for its line of Carnapol™ synthetic waxes in Europe.
Dr. John Hook, retired Senior Research Fellow at Dow Coatings Materials (formerly Rohm & Haas), will deliver the Mattiello Memorial Lecture at the American Coatings Conference (ACC), April 7-9, 2014, in Atlanta.
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) has received a record number of entries for both the BCF Sustainable Innovation and the Excellence in Training awards. Winners will be announced, along with the Student of the Year Award and Coatings Care Awards, on Tuesday November 12.