For much the same reason LCD televisions offer eye-popping performance, a thermomagnetic processing method developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) can advance the performance of polymers.
A consortium of companies in the European process industry comprising the areas of biotechnology, renewable resources, chemistry, process engineering, and equipment supply, as well as research organizations, recently launched project PRODIAS (PROcessing Diluted Aqueous Systems).
At the 2015 Coatings Tech Conference in Louisville, KY, the American Coatings Association (ACA) awarded the Roon Award to a team of researchers led by Dr. Wenjun Wu, Principle Scientist for Arkema Coating Resins.