Foam offers designers a full palette of potential materials. They can use it to absorb, seal, filter, wick, cushion, insulate, or support loads. And to solve even more application problems, you can ...

Engineers have shown that something as simple as the flow of air through open-cell foam can be used to perform digital computation, analog sensing and combined digital-analog control in soft ...

Fossil fuel-based polyurethane foam has been a firm favourite in furniture manufacturing for over half a century. Jane Englefield investigates the consequences of this dependable but unsustainable ...

Metal foams, also called cellular materials, are metallic bodies with interdispersed voids called cells. They have a reputation for high strength, low density, and absorbing impact. This combination ...

As climate change intensifies weather and delivers catastrophic hurricanes, storms, droughts and fires, there’s a growing need to design and build structures that are durable, energy efficient and ...

Pregis LLC, a Chicago-based protective packaging developer, has unveiled a foam packaging product supported by certified-circular polyethylene (PE) resins through a collaboration with Irving, ...

Corporate branding now can be prominently featured thanks to innovative full-color custom printing capability. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

How graphene-infused foam has been evaluated as a tunable thermal resistor for passive adjustable cooling. The modeling that was done to investigate the concept. The two test fixtures used to measure ...