Adding a white, reflective coating to a rooftop can help keep a house cooler in the summer and save on air-conditioning bills. But if you live in a city with cold winters, the same coating leads to ...

When a rope is heated – either by friction or by fire – it may lose its structural integrity, subsequently breaking when put under load. A new surface coating, however, could cause ropes to change ...

Keeping indoor spaces comfortable takes a lot of power. About half the energy Americans use in their homes goes toward heating and cooling, accounting for a sizable chunk of both utility bills and ...

The desert-dwelling Namaqua chameleon has a pretty neat trick – it changes skin color to stay cool when outdoor temperatures rise, and stay warm when they drop. An experimental new coating could one ...

CLEVELAND —Minwax, an American brand of interior wood stains and clears, announced its 2025 Color of the Year, Violet. This color, available in the new Minwax Wood Finish Color Series Premium ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced the release of new data showing the superior color and gloss retention performance of PPG CORAFLON® Platinum powder coating for ...

In a step towards developing advanced materials for functional coatings, a research group has developed a technology that combines structural color coating with super water-repellent properties. The ...

An ultra-thin layer of a metal and a semiconductor could be applied to essentially any rough or flexible material to produce a vividly colored coating, researchers report. The technique, which ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a coating using proteins and bacteria that could enable the development of T-shirts that warn of excessive sun exposure or labels ...

(Phys.org) —Solar thermal panels developed at EPFL are are dressed up in unique and patented new materials. Researchers created a stronger black coating that retains its original color and thereby its ...

BASF and Kentwood-based X-Rite Inc. said Wednesday that they now offer the pharmaceutical industry an easy-to-handle on-site approach to color coating tablets by combining X-Rite's ColorEye XTH ...

Third-party testing highlights product’s superior color and gloss performance PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced the release of new data showing the superior color and gloss ...