A paper crane that flaps its wings without a single motor inside it sounds like a magic trick. But engineers at Princeton ...

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Compact, adaptive lenses with adjustable focal lengths are particularly attractive for space-constrained applications such as endoscopes, cellular phone cameras, web cams and machine vision systems.

Researchers have developed a new resilient actuator that could allow soft robots to operate ...

Calling the material the industry's first cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) elastomer, TOPAS Advanced Polymers has received Food Contact Notification (FCN) #1104 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

Strain-induced crystallization can strengthen, toughen, and facilitate an elastocaloric effect in elastomers. The resulting crystallinity can be induced by mechanical stretching in common elastomers ...

High purity seal manufacturer, Perlast Ltd announces Kimura K13X, a new technology, high purity, elastomer featuring a proprietary self-reinforcing polymer structure. The elastomer avoids the needs ...

For many years, “Made in the USA” has been used to promote quality products throughout a broad range of industries. And in today’s plastics industry, it has perhaps never been more important. Why?

Eagle Elastomer Inc., a custom mixing and extrusion company, is a job shop. One extruder could see two or three setups in a single shift, making logistics and task management of paramount importance.