Airplanes, cars, and ships that don’t corrode are the promise of self-healing paint coatings and polymer materials. Now researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and ...

Metal coatings are applied on all kinds of items made of alloys, metals and plastics. These are used either for decorative platings or to enhance the chemical and physical properties of their surface ...

A gold nanolayer applied directly to zinc metal electrodes can suppress the spiky metal growths known as dendrites that ...

A typical recycling process converts large quantities of items made of a single material into more of the same. However, this approach isn't feasible for old electronic devices, or ''e-waste,'' ...

Lithium-metal battery anodes can store 10-fold more energy by weight than those in today’s best batteries, but they have been too unstable to be practical. Now, researchers have borrowed technology ...

Many new materials have been developed, but steel remains the principal construction material for automobiles, appliances, and industrial machinery. Because of steel's vulnerability to attack by ...

Fraunhofer IWS has developed the new “laser direct plating” process, which creates a functional layer directly on the base component by winding a strip-shaped metal spirally onto rotationally ...

Raman spectroscopy enables detailed comparison of coating composition and uniformity between RLD and generic pellets.