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National Defense
May 2009
Robert H. Williams |
Smart Coat Finds Rust Before It Can Be Seen The discovery potentially could save the Pentagon and the airline industry tens of billions of dollars a year.   |
Reactive Reports
Issue 57
David Bradley |
Smart Materials Self Repair Dumb materials succumb to rust, but smart materials might be able to heal themselves, thanks to researchers in Europe. |
Chemistry World
December 7, 2011
Anne Horan |
Catalyst clears up corrosion UK scientists have developed a cheap way of cleaning tarnished metals in industry to prevent corrosion using a UV activated photocatalyst ink. The dirty surface can then simply be washed away with water. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Polymer, Heal Thyself Researchers have taken a leaf out of nature's book to develop a polymer-based system that can heal itself when it becomes damaged. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Colorful Waterproofing for Anything Materials scientists in China have developed a simple process to add an extremely waterproof coating to a variety of materials. |
Chemistry World
September 8, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Tackling graffiti A new coating was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute and the Center of polymer and carbon materials of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice and Zabrze, Poland. |
Chemistry World
January 20, 2011
Erica Wise |
Protective shells for cells A highly permeable shell made for living cells could substantially extend their lifetime in bioengineering applications, including aiding bone repair, say US scientists. |
Chemistry World
March 5, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Tough self-cleaning coating sticks it to stains Clothing stains may be a thing of the past as scientists in the UK have developed a tough, self-cleaning coating that can be applied to cotton. |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2014
Matthew Gunther |
Hollow oxide can take the heat Researchers have developed a twin-layer insulating coating made up of hollow aluminum oxide spheres which could protect industrial parts, such as steam turbine components, from both heat and oxidation damage. |
Chemistry World
January 28, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Live insects pictured with electron microscope Takahiko Hariyama's group at Hamamatsu University in Japan had developed a coating that allowed insect larvae to survive in the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope, enabling whole living creatures to be imaged at very high resolution. |
Chemistry World
November 4, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Pressure-sensitive coating makes swallowed batteries safer Scientists have developed a protective coating for button cell batteries that stops curious children that swallow them from being injured. |
National Defense
May 2014
Dan Parsons |
A Fresh Coat of Paint Can Save Navy Billions Spending their operational lives in or near the ocean, Navy ships and Marine Corps vehicles are especially susceptible to the corrosive effects of salt water. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2006 |
Anti-slip coating This anti-slip coating is suitable for indoor applications, and provides traction and prevents hydroplaning even when wet. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Erik Sofge |
Bomb-Resistant Buildings: Engineering Reinforcements Spray-on polymer coating for pickup trucks is "drafted" to help bombproof buildings. |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2011
Holly Sheahan |
Cool roof coating inspired by the poplar leaf The coating could be used on the outside of buildings to counteract the heating effect of carbon dioxide emissions, reducing the energy needed to cool the building from the inside. |
Chemistry World
September 12, 2014
Anisha Ratan |
Oxide armor offers Kevlar better stab resistance Scientists in the US have synthesized an ultrathin inorganic bilayer coating for Kevlar that could improve its stab resistance by 30% and prove invaluable for military and first-responders requiring multi-threat protection clothes. |
Wired
January 2001
David Pescovitz |
Stuff Love The latest new materials, from a stronger-than-cement plastic concrete that floats on water to a polymeric coating that completely prevents rust... |
Chemistry World
August 21, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Coating can drive down white LED light prices The cost of white LED lighting may be set to fall as scientists in the US have created an LED coating made from a relatively cheap luminescent metal -- organic framework. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2011
Laura Howes |
Green fire retardant swells to suppress flames Jamie Grunlan's team at the University of Texas A&M, US, has used layer by layer deposition to coat fabrics with a thin, environmentally benign, fire retardant layer of polymers. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2007
Tracy Staedter |
Clean Rooms Researchers at MIT have developed a paint-on coating that destroys flu bugs and other nasty microorganisms before they can stick. |
