The mechanical behaviour of thermal barrier coatings in operation holds the key to understanding durability of jet engine turbine blades. Here we report the results from experiments that monitor ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute $500,000 to research and develop new materials to make nuclear reactors more resilient and efficient. The two-year project ...

(a) Schematic for the fabrication of photo-curing self-wrinkling surface coating. (b) The surface morphology of the obtained coating. (c) The mechanism of the impact resistance of this coating.

(Nanowerk News) Ice-repellent coatings have been around for some time, but until now they have been very sensitive and detach quite quickly from the surfaces they are meant to protect. A research team ...