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CPG’s Needle in the Haystack Webinar Reveals What’s Buried in Your LC-MS Data

Cambridge Polymer Group has announced an upcoming webinar entitled “Needle in the Haystack: What’s Buried in Your Polymer LC-MS Data?” featuring Adam Kozak, CPG Research Scientist II. This webinar will ...

From Cambridge Polymer Group, Inc. 25 Sep 2017

High Performance Filtration for API Manufacturing

Amazon Filters is a leading manufacturer of bespoke filter housings and high-performance filter media used in the manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API's) - vital building blocks for producing final pharmaceutical products.

25 Sep 2017

Better Rechargeable Batteries Coming Soon?

Novel lithium electrodes coated with indium could be the basis for more powerful, longer-lasting, rechargeable batteries.

25 Sep 2017

Novel Hybrid Indium-Lithium Electrodes Could be Basis for Rechargeable Batteries

New lithium electrodes coated with indium could lay the foundation for longer-lasting, more powerful, rechargeable batteries.

22 Sep 2017

Increase the Quality of Reclaimed Metal Powders with High-Capacity Screeners

Screening reclaimed metal powders with the innovative Russell Vibrasonic® Deblinding System The quality of fine metal powders used in the production of components, paints and coatings directly impacts the quality ...

From Russell Finex Ltd 22 Sep 2017

Researchers Create 'Few Atoms Thick' Semiconductors for Solar Cells and Circuits

During the past half-century, researchers have shaved silicon films down to merely a strand of atoms in the quest of smaller, faster electronics. For the next set of innovations, though, they will need unique ways to construct even tinier and more robust devices.

21 Sep 2017

Metal-Free Method for Controlling Cationic Polymerization

Chemists at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) have developed a metal-free method for collecting cationic polymerization capable of providing a new framework for superior quality industrial polymers applicable to bio-materials and semi-conductors.

21 Sep 2017

Thomas Swan Appoints Prof Steve Bennington as New Business Director for its Advanced Materials Division

Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. announced today that it has appointed Prof Stephen Bennington as Business Director for its Advanced Materials Division.

From Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. 20 Sep 2017

Researcher Uses Internet to X-ray Life-Sustaining Crystals

At his West Virginia University lab, Aaron Robart grows crystals that may look like simple rock salt under conventional magnification, but by bombarding them with X-rays, he and his research team can construct computational models that expose the molecules within.

20 Sep 2017

Axalta Launches Eloxal Selection of High-Performance Metallic Effect Powder Coatings

Axalta Coating Systems, a top global supplier of powder and liquid coatings, launched the Eloxal Selection, containing high-performance metallic effect powder coatings from Axalta’s Alesta® Super Durable range.

20 Sep 2017

VTT Researchers Develop New Method to Create Recycled Fiber

The method develop at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland involves dissolving worn and discarded cotton and using it as a raw material for new fibre. The first product models demonstrate that recycled fibre can be transformed into a yarn and pleasant fabric.

20 Sep 2017

New Solar Cell Works Even in Water

Researchers from RIKEN and the University of Tokyo have created a new type of ultra-thin photovoltaic device, coated on both sides with waterproof and stretchable films, which can continue to provide electricity from sunlight even after being immersed in water or being compressed and stretched.

19 Sep 2017

Chemists Create Playdough/Lego-Like Particles to Make Miniature Building Blocks

Legos and Playdough are two very popular childhood building blocks. But what could one use to create something extremely small—a structure measuring lesser than the width of a human hair?

19 Sep 2017

Potential Use of Magnesium-Antimony Materials in Thermoelectric Devices

Thermoelectric materials will be a vital resource for the future as they are capable of producing electricity from sources of heat that would otherwise go to waste, from vehicle tailpipes, power plants and elsewhere, without producing additional greenhouse gases.

19 Sep 2017

Uncommon Fluorescent Materials for Use in Rapid Light-Based Communications Systems

Two-dimensional (2D) materials known as molecular aggregates are extremely effective light emitters that function on a different principle than usual organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) or quantum dots.

19 Sep 2017