Dr. Karl-Heinz Heise

Consumer safety sits at the heart of many certifications and approvals. For product safety – and fire safety in particular – Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) has led the field since …

Valves are part of our everyday life – in water taps, bicycle valves, or as 3-way mixing valves in heating systems. The latter regulate the flow rates of liquids or …

Among plastics, silicones are exceptional performers, combining chemical resistance to a wide range of substances with high temperature stability and flexibility – even at very low temperatures down to -100 …

Prostheses, implants and suture materials all have one requirement in common: they should cause as little adverse effect as possible on the surrounding tissue and on the human body as …

Anyone who has worked in a lab knows that pipettes are indispensable for handling liquids. Depending on the design, they either transfer liquids simply or dispense them with precision. Laboratory …

Honey, water, ketchup and a starch solution represent four liquids with four very different flow behaviours. Honey flows slowly and thickly, but it can be made thinner by gentle heating. …

Chemical products have become indispensable to everyday life. Plastic household items, medicines, detergents and specialised chemicals inside high-tech goods all make our lives easier, more comfortable and more liveable. Both …

In plant and mechanical engineering, in drive technology, or in precision mechanics, information on the friction behavior of the materials used is essential, with the coefficient of friction being a …

Plastics used in medical technology and pharmaceuticals are classified into six biocompatibility classes in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), the US pharmacopoeia. To assign elastomers and other polymeric materials to …

Sintering is a manufacturing process that has been known and widely used for a very long time. The production of ceramics – such as firing kaolin or shaping clay into …