The nuclear power industry uses elastomers, or rubber, for many sealing applications such as airlock doors, hatches, pool gates, drywell heads, vibration dampening and others. Made from long-chain ...

A research team led by Professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki from Saarland University is using a highly versatile film not much thicker than household cling film to impart new capabilities to ...

Researchers have developed a family of highly stretchable and UV curable (SUV) elastomers that can be stretched by up to 1100%, and are suitable for UV curing based 3-D printing techniques. Using high ...

Elastic polymers, or elastomers, are desirable materials because they can repeatedly de-form and re-form. But this softness often comes at the expense of mechanical strength, which the materials need ...

Today’s electronic packages have high clock speeds (multi-gigahertz range), fine pin densities (below 0.4-mm pitch), and high pin counts (over 2000). When assembled onto a printed-circuit board (PCB), ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS—Eagle Elastomer Inc., a custom mixer and rubber product producer in Northeast Ohio, has announced several changes to its executive team, effective immediately. Eagle has appointed ...

With fast self-repair and 98 % photoluminescence, this naphthyl-rich elastomer gives flexible sensors an unexpected optical dimension. Reporting in Nature Communications, researchers have developed a ...

A new technical report titled “Polymer semiconductor blends with remarkably stable semiconducting performance under large and cyclic mechanical deformation” was published by Chinese Academy of ...