Modern Materials quickie

What is this material?

• Flexi-MDF

• Greyboard

• Flexiply

This crafting medium consisting of very small particles of metal which is held in a modelling clay which burns way in the kiln leaving the valuable metal. What is it called?

• Precious Metal Clay

• Fimo Precious Clay

• Smart Metal Clay

These show excellent chemical, thermal, and oxidative stability and are practically insoluble in all common solvents. They conduct electricity - which is not their normal property!

• Conductive fabrics

• Conductive polymers

• Conductive glass

Heated in hot water - at 62 degrees centigrade, the granules form a mass of ‘clear’ material that can be shaped into almost any form

• TeflonPoly

• Precious polymer

• Polymorph

Polytetrafluoroethylene, employed as a coating in paints, fabrics, carpets and clothing (school uniform trousers) to repel liquids.

• PTFE

• Polytetra

• Teflon

Printed images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles.

• Holograms

• Lenticular displays

• 3d Images