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Polytec’s Multipoint Vibrometer Recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Technologically Significant New Products of the Year

Polytec is proud to announce that the MPV-800 Multipoint Vibrometer is a 2017 R&D 100 Award winner. This prestigious awards program honors the very best R&D pioneers and their ingenious ideas, ide...

From Polytec 22 Nov 2017

The Acoustic Camera: Noise of Hummingbirds

Anna's hummingbirds are a local hummingbird species in coastal central California living in the region year round. A few migratory species such as the Allen's hummingbird migrate through the region spending ...

From Polytec 22 Nov 2017

Golf Club Dynamics Studied with the MPV-800 Multipoint Vibrometer

Golf clubs come in a variety of different types. Drivers are designed to generate distance, wedges to lift the ball out of difficult situations, and putters to gently place the ball in the hole. Golf club manufa...

From Polytec 22 Nov 2017

Hammer Hit Dynamics Studied with the MPV-800 Multipoint Vibrometer

Hammers come in many varieties. The design of hammers can be for specific use functions and can also be for comfort or efficiency in the hands of the user. Two types of hammers, a steel head sledge hamm...

From Polytec 22 Nov 2017

See MeasureReady I/V source for low-noise sample excitation at MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Lake Shore Cryotronics will be at next week’s MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston to showcase their latest in simple-to-use solutions for material characterization, including an innovative new current/voltage ...

From Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. 21 Nov 2017

Lake Shore Cryotronics 8600 Series VSM winner of R&D 100 Award

Lake Shore Cryotronics is pleased to announce that its 8600 Series VSM has been named winner of an R&D 100 Award in the Analytical/Test category. The winners, announced Friday at an awards gala hel...

From Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. 21 Nov 2017

Transparent Abrasion-Resistant Coatings for Daily Use Products

Water- and dirt-repellent outdoor clothing and sportswear, or anti-fog windshields – there are many daily use products that can gain from very hydrophobic coatings. For such coatings, researchers guided by Dr. Bastian E. Rapp at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have created Fluoropor, a material that is both abrasion-resistant and transparent and that comprises of a fluorinated polymer foam with continuous nano/micro-structure. Fluoropor is described in Nature Scientific Reports.

21 Nov 2017

New Catalyst Regulates Stimulation of Carbon-Hydrogen Bond

Chemists have created another catalyst that can selectively trigger a carbon-hydrogen bond, part of a continuing strategy to transform the field of organic synthesis and pave the way for new chemical space.

21 Nov 2017

Physicists Develop Thin-Film Combinations to Use Waste Heat from Electronic Devices

The heat generated in electronic devices (e.g. computers) is generally wasted. At present, physicists from Bielefeld University have come up with a technique to put the waste heat to good use—they use the heat to produce magnetic signals called as “spin currents.”

21 Nov 2017