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New Breakthrough in Uranium Could Lead to Monumental Developments

Uranium is capable of performing reactions that earlier no one thought could be possible, and these reactions are now capable of converting the way industry makes polymers, bulk chemicals, and the precursors to new plastics and drugs, based on latest findings from The University of Manchester.

4 Dec 2017

ETH Researchers Develop New 3D Printing Platform that Works Using Living Matter

3D printing has become a ubiquitous phenomenon. However, "dead matter" such as metals or plastics are still being used for this process.

4 Dec 2017

KIT Researchers Successfully Develop a Metamaterial from Cubic Building Blocks

Researchers of KIT have used 3D printers for the microrange and successfully developed a metamaterial from cubic building blocks responding to compression forces by a rotation. Generally, this can only be attained by transmission with the help of a crankshaft, for example.

4 Dec 2017

Light Microscopy Used for Combining Two X-Ray Methods

A team of scientists at KIT have obtained three-dimensional insights into the interior of crystals by employing non-destructive imaging methods. They have established the vital data about line-shaped defects that immensely influence the deformation behavior of crystals.

4 Dec 2017

Scientists Use New Class of Liquids to Develop Innovative Material Platform for TTA Photon Upconversion

A concept called the Shockley-Quesser limit currently restricts the conversion of solar energy into electricity. This restriction causes lower energy photons to be wasted, while enabling those that possess higher energies than those of the bandgap to be utilized.

4 Dec 2017

Research on the Electronic Structure of 2D-Topological Insulators

Insulating materials were assumed to be "boring" materials, for decades, from an electronics point of view, since electrons are considered to be immobile and do not have the potential to contribute to electrical conduction.

4 Dec 2017

DENSsolutions Heating Things Up for In Situ TEM Studies

DENSsolutions specialise in building solutions that allow TEM microscopists to carry out dynamic studies in situ. Their latest heating Nano-Chip that will be available for Wildfire (heating) and Lightning (heatin...

4 Dec 2017

Towards a Condensed Platform for Protein Aggregation Profiling

Malvern Panalytical wins Innovate UK grant to lead biopharmaceutical consortium on aggregation analytics. Malvern Panalytical announces the launch of a collaborative project which aims to support the development o...

From Malvern Panalytical 4 Dec 2017

Army Scientists Publish New Findings on Efficient Batteries

In a peer-reviewed publication from the American Chemical Society, a team of army scientists working on extremely efficient batteries recently published new findings.

1 Dec 2017

New Energy Efficient, Low-Cost Process Could Help Convert Methane to Methanol

Methane is the main constituent of natural gas. The direct oxidation of this compound into methanol at low temperatures has traditionally been a holy grail.

1 Dec 2017

New Simple Method Used to Synthesize Amorphous Diamond for First Time

Earlier this year, a technique involving moderately high temperatures, high pressures, and a small amount of glassy carbon as starting material was used to synthesize amorphous diamond for the first time.

1 Dec 2017

Digicom Electronics Presents Ways to Mitigate Device Failure through Proper Manufacturing Processes, at BIOMEDevice, Booth 327

Digicom Electronics, Inc., a technology and quality driven electronics manufacturing services company based in Oakland, CA, will present ways to mitigate device failure in manufacturing processes, at the BIOMEDevice Show...

From Digicom Electronics 1 Dec 2017

The FluoTime 300 Spectrometer is now available with double monochromators in excitation and emission

PicoQuant proudly announces that the FluoTime 300 fluorescence lifetime spectrometer is now available with double monochromators in excitation and emission. Due to the very high stray light rejection of these mon...

From PicoQuant 1 Dec 2017

Sachin Mishra is 2017 Goodfellow PhD Award Winner

The 2017 Goodfellow PhD Award for the best PhD publication by a South African student in the field of the Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials has been presented to Sachin Mishra of the University of the Free State ...

From Goodfellow 1 Dec 2017

Obtain continuous measurements in water extraction and other applications

HORIBA Scientific, a global leader in Fluorescence instrumentation and solutions, is pleased to announce that it now is offering an automatic sipper accessory and a 4-sample changer unit for its Aqualog® A-TEEM spect...

From HORIBA 1 Dec 2017