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 ...

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 ...

Move over, color-drenching! This softer, layered look is taking over.

Whether you are building your own hot rod at home or having a professional shop do it for you, you'll find that powder coating colors have a lot to offer. Sometimes called powder paint, powder coating ...

Formulating colors for architectural coatings is a complicated process that includes resins, pigments, and solvents. Special care must be taken to formulate coatings to ensure performance, even in the ...

While a good paint job can certainly provide a much-needed makeover with minimal investment of time and money, it can also ...

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

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 ...

The author discusses a new fillm-coating system to create customized colors and the research an development tools used in conjunction with this system. This article is part of a special supplement on ...