A metallic glass rod being drawn into a metallic glass wire and SEM image of the hot-drawn metallic glass wires. Courtesy: Chinese Physics Letters Metallic glasses are promising materials for ...

It might seem like a bad move, but there are two major reasons why automakers are fitting their cars with plastic valve ...

Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results. Now, scientists have ...

New metallic bubble wrap is far stronger than plastic bubble wrap, and more than 50 percent more bendable than flat sheet metal. Engineers at North Carolina State University invented the metallic ...

Ordinarily, if you want to join metal and plastic items together, you have to use either adhesives or rivets. Engineers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology, however, ...

This guest article from CPC takes a look at the differences between metal and plastic liquid cooling connectors, the benefits and challenges to each, as well as what you should consider when making a ...

Right now, I’m carrying two nearly all-metal smartphones as my daily drivers: the curvaceous HTC One M8 and the giant, plate-like iPhone 6 Plus. Why did I choose metal? You could say I have an ...

I just ordered a dual drive Firewire enclosure. It was a good deal, but it's an ugly beige color.<BR><BR>View image: http://www.compgeeks.com/images/300x300/CAS-MAP ...