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MIT Team Develops Mechanical Actuators Capable of "Breathing" as They Bend

Performing maintenance operations within a nuclear plant puts extreme stress on equipment, due to very high temperatures that are hard for components to withstand without degrading. Recently, some researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a radically new approach to create actuators that could be used in such very hot environments.

10 May 2017

New Helios G4 Plasma DualBeam Designed to Speed Time to Results

Plasma FIB addition to flagship DualBeam can significantly increase milling speed, enabling analyses of larger features that are impractical with conventional FIB technology

From Thermo Fisher Scientific 10 May 2017

New Helios G4 Plasma DualBeam Designed to Speed Time to Results

Plasma FIB addition to flagship DualBeam can significantly increase milling speed, enabling analyses of larger features that are impractical with conventional FIB technology

From Thermo Fisher Scientific 10 May 2017

A Modern Control Valve for Today’s Demanding Industries

A generation of modernized control valves is promising to transform the precision, control, reliability and efficiency of some of British industry’s most demanding processes. Downtime and under performance, ...

From Spirax Sarco 10 May 2017

Efficient Ring-Closing Metathesis of Olefins under Flow-through Conditions

Uniqsis has published details of a new flow-through protocol developed by the Lamaty Group at Universite de Montpellier (France) on a FlowSyn™ Multi-X system that provides efficient ring closing olefin metathesis.

From Uniqsis Ltd 10 May 2017

Efficient Ring-Closing Metathesis of Olefins under Flow-through Conditions

From Uniqsis Ltd 10 May 2017

Analytik are Pleased to Announce their Appointment as Exclusive Distributors for Nanophoton, Japanese Manufacturers of Innovative, Benchtop Raman Imaging Systems

Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, are pleased to announce their appointment as exclusive distributors for Nanophoton, Japanese manufacturers of innovative, benchtop Raman imaging systems for both industrial and research laboratories.

From Analytik Ltd 10 May 2017

Digicom Electronics Presents Ways to Improve Quality in the Electronics Assembly Process

Digicom Electronics, Inc., a technology and quality driven electronics manufacturing services company based in Oakland, CA, will present methods for improving product quality and integrity during the electronics assembly process at the Design-2-Part Show, being held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, on May 24 and 25, 2017, in booth 331.

10 May 2017

Scientists Develop Virtually Freely Suspended Semiconductors

Organic semiconductor nanosheets, that can be effortlessly removed from a growth substrate and then placed on other substrates, have been recently developed by Scientists at LMU Munich and FSU Jena. This new development prevents the need for error-prone evaporation deposition, printing or drop casting.

9 May 2017

Eliminating Polysulfides from Lithium-Sulfur Battery by Using Quartz Powder

Materials researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland have worked in cooperation with the Université Grenoble Alpes, France, to develop a technique for enabling advancement of the lithium-sulfur battery. Theoretically, lithium-sulfur batteries have the ability to provide remarkably more energy when compared to the currently used traditional lithium-ion batteries.

9 May 2017

Bruker Acquires Emerging Light Sheet Microscopy Company Luxendo

Patented SPIM Technology Expands Bruker’s Fluorescence Microscopy Portfolio. Bruker today announced that it has acquired Luxendo, a privately held spin-off of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...

From Bruker 9 May 2017

Analytik Are Exclusive Distributors for Nanophoton, Japanese Manufacturers of Innovative, Benchtop Raman Imaging Systems

Analytik has been appointed as the exclusive distributors in the UK & Ireland for the Nanophoton range of Raman imaging systems.

From Analytik Ltd 9 May 2017

AMSilk Strengthens Team and Product Competence in the Biosteel® Fiber Business Unit

AMSilk GmbH, the world's first industrial supplier of synthetic silk biopolymers has further expanded its Fiber Business Unit: Since the beginning of April, Martin Lankes supports the Biosteel® fiber development team as Senior Product Manager Fiber Business in a technical and market-related way to bring the protein-based silk fiber to the next development stage.

8 May 2017

Peak Scientific Expands key LATAM Office in Brazil

Peak Scientific, a market leader in gas generation solutions, has expanded its regional office in Brazil, moving to new, larger premises which will allow it to further develop its capability to support its ever growing customer base in LATAM.

From Peak Scientific 8 May 2017

New Nano-Scale Thin Film Material's High Conductivity and Wide Bandgap Improve Electronics and Solar Cell

A new nano-scale thin film material has been discovered by a research team headed by the University of Minnesota. This new material, with the highest-ever conductivity in its class, is capable of leading to faster, smaller, and more powerful electronics besides developing more efficient solar cells.

8 May 2017