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Layered Structures – Innovative Tube/Pipe Manufacturing Process

High Performance Tubular Structures (HPTS) is an emerging technology being developed by Techreo in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. HPTS will provide breakthrough performance advantages in a wide range of metal tubular structures, including pipes transporting [...]

Utilization of Aerogel Materials and Systems in the Building Envelopes of Tomorrow

Gao T., Jelle B.P., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) / SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, NO

Building envelopes incorporating aerogel materials may exploit miscellaneous properties of the aerogels such as a very low thermal conductivity, lightweight properties due the air-filled low-density aerogel structure, and the possibility of utilizing solar radiation as [...]

Novel nanocarbon-based, lightweight, flexible EMI shield

Banerjee S., Chang S., Jayasinghe C., Monville M., Sprengard J., Strobl K., CVD Equipment Corporation, US

The EMI shielding capability of a material depends primarily on its electrical conductivity, its magnetic permeability, the frequency of an electromagnetic wave of interest, the total surface area of the material and its thickness related [...]