In a microwave oven, sparks are generated inside a glass vial containing coal powder and copper foil as part of an experiment by UW researchers. They successfully converted the coal powder to ...

Effective sealing of flanges in applications containing extreme heat, hazardous chemicals or when low creep properties are required, is extremely challenging. Conventional rubber-bonded gasket ...

Ice on the wings and other aircraft surfaces is extremely dangerous. It changes the wing's aerodynamics, thus reducing lift, and ice adds weight. Until now, most anti and de-icing systems have been ...