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2008-01-07 Manufacturing
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Silver flakes make plastics conductive Plastics and electrically conductive silver flakes combine to enhance applications where conductive plastics are in demand especially for electronic components.
Silver is the most electrically conductive of metals. When tiny flakes of silver are combined with non-conductive materials, such as plastics, the conductivity of the silver flakes can greatly extend the range of possible uses of plastics. Conductive plastics are in demand in the electronics industry, for example, as they are highly suitable for applications in which high-quality components have to be protected against electrostatic discharge or stray electromagnetic radiation - in the housings of electric motors, for instance. Conductive plastics also open up new possibilities for designing electronic components and equipment. Thrilling and unsual insights. This image allows the viewer to explore structures that would otherwise only be seen by analytical chemists. State-of-the-art technologies such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy help to create a genuinely different view of the world.
This spectacular picture comes from current research at BASF. Electron microscope images by "eye of science" The bulk of the images from the "Microworld of Science" series are by the science photographers Oliver Meckes and Nicole Ottawa. The two specialists for the esthetic representation of scientific themes set up their joint agency "eye of science" in 1994. Microscopy is their key area of photographic expertise. The main tools of the "eye of science" experts are SEM, light microscopy, a suitably equipped sample preparation lab, and high-performance computers for digital image processing. Almost all the samples are prepared and photographed in the agency's own SEM lab. "eye of science" have earned a number of prestigious awards for their works. The electron microscopy image reproduces the surface structure of an
object, in this case featuring plastics combined with silver flakes, in
black and white. It does not "see" colors. "eye of science"
compensate for this deficit through the use of digital image processing
techniques. The photography specialists render the photographed materials
in their original colors, accurate to the last pixel.
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