Flexible electronics, or flex circuits, is a technology developed for assembling electronic circuits by mounting electronic devices on flexible plastic substrates known as polyimide or PEEK Film. A flexible circuit design can also be in the form of screen printed silver circuits on polyester. These circuits are made using the same components that used for [...]
Kynar is special material that is made from polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). It is a pure and highly non-reactive thermoplastic fluoropolymer. It is used for many different purposes, primarily service applications in wire installation, jacketing, and chemical handling. It has amazing cut-through properties and abrasion resistance, which is combined with high dielectric strength. This dense, high-purity [...]
I started knitting when I was 15 years old. My grandmother taught me everything I know now in her sunroom in the back of the house. Ever since I learned how to knit from her, I’ve been doing a lot of it! I’ve made all sorts of things including baby clothes, hats, coin purses, etc. [...]
Four years ago, words like “impossible,” “futuristic,” and “science fiction” filled discussions about nanotechnology. Since the announcement of the US National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000, though, worldwide investment in nano research and development has raced forward, with $8 billion invested in 2004 alone. That kind of growth has leaders at major companies sitting up and [...]
Columns, pipes, bearings and springs are a few common ways that engineers have made use of the geometric shape known as a ‘cylinder.’ The utility of this shape is apparent in architecture, plumbing and mechanical devices. Carbon nanotubes are molecular cylinders that are rapidly extending our ability to fabricate nanoscale devices by providing molecular probes, [...]
anotechnology is a relatively new field of research and scientific development. It has been speculated about for decades and the wonders and advantages of nanotechnology have been extolled by many. But not all. The scientific community, in its never ending quest for information and knowledge, consistently fails to seriously acknowledge the dangers of “invisible” technology, [...]
The challenge with all emerging liabilities is to identify risk potentialities at an early stage, and well before they become the subject of court action. Technology is no exception and with rapid innovation companies can find it difficult to keep up with the risks. Nanotechnology is a good example. And it’s one where you get [...]
ano-this and nano-that. These days it seems you need the prefix “nano” for products or applications if you want to be either very trendy or incredibly scary. This “nanotrend” has assumed “mega” proportions: Patent offices around the world are swamped with nanotechnology-related applications; investment advisors compile nanotechnology stock indices and predict a coming boom in [...]
Truly revolutionary nanotechnology products, materials and applications, such as nanorobotics, are years in the future (some say only a few years; some say many years). What qualifies as “nanotechnology” today is basic research and development that is happening in laboratories all over the world. “Nanotechnology” products that are on the market today are mostly gradually [...]
The EuroNanoForum 2009 international nanotechnology conference took place from 2nd to 5th June 2009 in the Prague Congress Centre, organized by the Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, as an event of the Czech Presidency and under the auspices of the Czech Ministry for Education Youth and Sports. It has [...]