Since most foam materials are made of petrochemical plastics, they aren't very climate-friendly. But now an alternative is in sight—a novel foam material produced entirely from wood, which is not ...

Students are turning waste into materials ready for cross-disciplinary use and experimentation, from blotter paper to cotton ...

Tough, ultralight foam of atom-thick sheets can be made to any size and shape through a new chemical process. In microscopic images, the foam dubbed "GO-0.5BN" looks like a nanoscale building, with ...

HOUSTON – (July 29, 2014) – Tough, ultralight foam of atom-thick sheets can be made to any size and shape through a chemical process invented at Rice University. In microscopic images, the foam dubbed ...

Cruz Foam CEO John Felts and Chief Scientific Advisor and co-founder Marco Rolandi started a lab in 2016 at UC Santa Cruz to try making surfboards out of chitin and its derivative chitosan — ...

Dublin, Jan. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Syntactic Foam Market by Product Type, Matrix Type (Metal, Polymer, Ceramic), Chemistry, Form (Sheet & Rod ...

March 22 -- Feeling hot? One day, a simple-looking block of solid foam could be the key to cooling you — or anything else — down. Such a thought seems to fly in the face of logic since foam is more ...

Editor’s note: This content was originally published on NetComposites.com. NetComposites was acquired by CompositesWorld’s parent company, Gardner Business Media, in February 2020. Core materials ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed a new material that could be used to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Made from hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), the ...