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 ...

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), ...

Cabot (NYSE:CBT) specializes in performance materials and specialty chemicals, expanding operations in advanced industrial ...

Ironwood Electronics introduced a new high-performance elastomer socket for 0.5-mm-pitch ball-grid-array (BGA) packages. The CG15-BGA-1003 socket is designed for a 10- x 5.7-mm package size. It ...

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 ...

The new Teamelite TE01 from BMC is one of the most interesting mountain bikes around at the moment and yet it’s really not that easy to see why. Check the side profile of the Teamelite 01 frame and ...