Düsseldorf, Germany — You may recall the legend of Damocles and the sword that hung over his throne. Now picture that sword being hung from a bit of plastic glued to metal. Or, as Fraunhofer Institut ...

Rather than use unreliable adhesives, Apple is exploring new ways to permanently bond plastic and metal parts to build better portable devices like the iPhone. The concept was revealed this week in a ...

Ordinarily, if you want to join metal and plastic items together, you have to use either adhesives or rivets. Engineers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology, however, ...

Rubber to metal bonding is a generic phrase covering a number of interdependent processes. The rubber bonded units that result from the process are used for the isolation of noise and vibration in ...