The orientation of liquid crystal molecules is very sensitive towards contacting surfaces, and this phenomenon is critical during the fabrication of liquid crystal display panels, as well as optical ...

A transparent coating that repels a wide variety of liquids, prevents staining, is capable of self-repair and is robust towards mechanical damage can have a broad technological impact, from solar cell ...

The study of liquid droplets and their behavior upon impingement is of major importance in many fields, including agriculture, engineering, and medicine. Droplet behavior prediction has use in spray ...

Vinod Radhakrishnan, Senior Product Specialist for the Particle and Material Characterization group at Anton Paar USA, talks to AZoM about the new SurPASS 3 and how it enables users to generate ...

The attributes of a solid surface facade system include aesthetic appearance, ease of maintenance and colour fastness. Being compatible with virtually any insulation system, substrate and load-bearing ...

Researchers use ultrasonic waves to assemble copper nanosheets into uniform, conductive coatings on curved and flexible surfaces for electronics and sensors. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ability to ...

A hard disk platter is a part of a hard disk drive, used to store the data. Hard drives can have one or more hard disk platters. The platters possess complex layer structures, which can be split into ...