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Leonardo DRS Expands Commercial Infrared Business With Assignment of U.S. Master Distributor

Leonardo DRS and SOTI join forces to enhance distribution of uncooled thermal cores, driving innovation and expanding market reach in infrared technologies.

From Sierra-Olympic Technologies Inc. 18 Oct 2017

Axalta Launches a New Industrial Tufcote™ Product Line

Axalta Coating Systems has expanded its industrial Tufcote™ product line with Tufcote Hydro 2.1 HG and Tufcote Hydro LV HG waterborne acrylic products.

17 Oct 2017

Leading Edge Materials Participates in a Swedish Government Funded Research Project

Leading Edge Materials Corp. (“Leading Edge Materials”) or (the Company”) is pleased to make an announcement of its participation in a Swedish Government Funded research project entitled “Natural Swedish Graphite for Future Lithium Ion Batteries”.

17 Oct 2017

New Technology for Concrete and Cement Testing

ELE International has launched a new automatic control unit for concrete and cement testing.

From ELE International 17 Oct 2017

MADMEC’s Top Prize Goes to Hydrogel that Extracts Uranium from Water

At this year’s MADMEC competition held on October 10 an economical hydrogel capable of extracting uranium from water to provide additional fuel for nuclear power plants was bestowed the top prize.

16 Oct 2017

Study on How Mimetic Martin Water Could Exist on the Martian Surface

New insight into the limits of life on the red planet has been provided by researchers exploring the possibility of liquid water existing on Mars.

16 Oct 2017

Metrohm Releases New Autosampler and Significant Upgrade to its 915, 916 and 917 Ti-Touch Titrators

Metrohm is proud to announce the release of significant enhancements to its Ti-Touch Titrator family of potentiometric and Karl Fischer titrators and a new low-cost autosampler. These releases will bring enhanced productivity to laboratories performing standard, routine titrations in support of product quality or manufacturing.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 16 Oct 2017

Analyzing Self-Repairing Tendency of Flax Plants for Developing Innovative Materials

Researchers from EPFL’s Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites (LPAC) as well as from the Botanical Garden of the University of Freiburg have investigated how the self-repair nature of the flax plant heals upon being damaged.

13 Oct 2017

A New 2D Metal-Organic Solution for Storing Renewable Energy

Researchers are keen to discover the next generation of materials that can catalyze a transformation in renewable energy harvesting and storage.

13 Oct 2017

Engineers Create Programmable “Camouflaging” Material

For the cuttlefish and octopus, rapidly changing their skin pattern and color to vanish into the environment is simply a part of their camouflage ability. These animals can also quickly and reversibly alter their skin into a textured, 3D surface, giving the animal a raggedy outline that resembles coral, seaweed, or other objects it detects and uses for camouflage.

13 Oct 2017

Shortage of Critical Metals Unlikely to Disrupt Lithium-Ion Battery Production

Over the years, there has been a significant increase in the production of electric vehicles combined with the fact that the use of grid-connected battery systems for storing the electricity generated from renewable sources is also expected to grow considerably.

13 Oct 2017

Organic/Inorganic Sulfur Shows Promise for Safer and More Efficient Lithium Batteries

Leaky sulfur-acid automobile batteries may be a thing of the past, but current generation of lithium batteries still continues to have some disadvantages. Now, a group of engineers at Penn State have developed a unique kind of lithium sulfur battery that could be safer, more efficient, and less expensive.

13 Oct 2017

Leybold Increases the Energy Efficiency of its Diffusion Pumps

The subject of energy efficiency of vacuum solutions plays an important role in all areas of application. Not least for this reason, the vacuum supplier Leybold from Cologne has continuously reduced the energy consumption of its product range in recent years.

13 Oct 2017

New Machine-Learning Method Predicts Molecular Behavior

A new machine-learning method has been developed by an international, interdisciplinary research team of scientists.

12 Oct 2017

Researchers Discover New Methods to Produce Lithium Ion Batteries from Waste Graphite

With the cost of raw materials increasing and lithium ion batteries continuing to be flammable, are there any alternatives? The answer is yes. Researchers at Empa and ETH Zürich have come up with potential approaches as to how batteries can be produced from scrap metal and waste graphite.

12 Oct 2017