Math puzzle for better material utilization
Companies that process steel usually require customized cutting of steel bars for their products. As a result, steel traders are faced with the challenge of meeting customer-specific requirements while producing as little scrap…
New stainless steel cable tie hand tool
Higher performance and reliability combined with state of the art ergonomic features Panduit Europe Ltd., a company that operates in the control panel, wire harness and heavy-duty cable management solutions for over 60…
Reliable protective clothing with high-grade steel wire
Friedrich Münch GmbH & Co. KG from Mühlacker, Germany, is the leading producer for personal protection clothing and equipment made of stainless steel wire. To ensure the cut and stab resistance…
Electromobility and the wire industry
Electromobility has been widely discussed for many years now. The term stands for a complex system that covers electric vehicles, the energy supply and our traffic and transport infrastructure. Whereas electrically driven bicycles…
Nanofibres to interact with human brain
Science has always searched for the way to investigate the human brain operation and the interconnection among the various regions and an excellence result has been reached by a team of researchers of…
Transforming CO2 into fuel, with the aid of light
Catalysis is a phenomenon that allows varying the speed of a chemical reaction due to the intervention of a substance, or a mix of substances, identified by the term of catalyst. Some time…
Water-repellent nanofabrics from nature
In nature some insects, in their evolution, have acquired particular skills, such as having parts of their body surface able to repel water and oil liquids. Some time ago, the scientists of DOF…
Nanofibres to regenerate degraded nerves
A team of researchers of Osaka University, in Japan, has developed a nanofibre mesh that, wound around peripheral nerves that have suffered a trauma, facilitates their regeneration, restoring their original functions. This nanotechnological…
Silver wires
They are actually silver nanowires, whose characteristics and properties are originating innovative applications, to the extent that we can state we are facing a new technology. Nanowires, according to an unofficial but commonly…
Optical switch based on nanofibres
Computers translate, or better digitize letters, numbers, images and sounds into a set of 8 zeroes and ones, i.e. into bytes. The word “test”, for instance, is translated into the sequence 01110000 01110010…
