Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee-based manufacturer Sellars Absorbent Materials has ...

Engineers find the hydrogel polyethylene glycol (PEG) doubles its water absorption as temperatures climb from 25 to 50 C, and could be useful for passive cooling or water harvesting in warm climates.

Radar-absorbent materials (RAM) play a key role in determining the effectiveness of an aircraft’s stealth performance. As stealth performance becomes a design cornerstone of military aircraft, it is ...

Super absorbent polymers (SAPs) have quietly become one of the most influential material innovations of the modern era. Known ...

The electric everything revolution is here, and with it an unprecedented demand for critical battery materials. The most precious of all? Lithium, the crucial ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries ...

With new funding, the company plans to accelerate R&D on biodegradable superabsorbent materials for hygiene and agriculture, ...

The vast majority of absorbent materials will lose their ability to retain water as temperatures rise. This is why our skin starts to sweat and why plants dry out in the heat. Even materials that are ...