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Article: German Inventors Develop Structured Body Construction Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Paul Kissl and Christian Kunert, both of Mainz, Germany, Frank Bullesfeld of Frankfurt, Germany, Sabine Lehnicke of Essenheim, Germany, Martin Zimmermann of Mahlberg, Germany, Bernd Hoppe of Ingelheim, Germany, and Volker Plapper of Saulheim, Germany, have developed a structured body shaping method.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for shaping a body with elongate structures on its surface, bodies produced using the process, and to apparatuses having these bodies are provided. For this purpose, a preform is provided, at the surface, with structures which are elongate along one direction, the preform is heated at least in one region ...