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Powder Characterisation Workshop Hosted by Freeman Technology and Surface Measurement Systems

Freeman Technology, the powder characterization specialists, and Surface Measurement Systems, will be hosting a ‘Powder Characterization Workshop’ on the 18th May 2017 at Imperial College London.

From Freeman Technology 4 Apr 2017

New Duralar® CS-50 System Coats both Inner and Outer Surfaces

Duralar Technologies, Tucson-Arizona based developer of advanced, ultra-hard metal coatings and coating machines has recently launched the Duralar® CS-50 deposition system.

4 Apr 2017

High-Speed Data Transfer Enabled by Tiny Black Holes-Based Photodetector

A silicon wafer has tiny “black holes” that act as a new form of photodetector for potentially moving more data across a data center or around the world, in a less expensive manner. Electrical engineers at the University of California, Davis, and a Silicon Valley startup, based at Los Altos, California, called W&WSens Devices Inc., have developed this technology, which is reported in the April 3 issue of Nature Photonics.

4 Apr 2017

New Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells Set New World-Record Performance

A recent research affiliated with UNIST has revealed a new economical way to manufacture inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) which sets a new world-record efficiency performance, particularly in photostability.

3 Apr 2017

Researchers Succeed in Performing Modern Alchemy by Developing Luminescent Iron Molecules

The first iron-based molecule that has the potential to emit light has been developed by a research team at Lund University in Sweden. This new molecule can contribute to the production of environmentally friendly and cost-effective materials such as displays, light sources and solar cells.

31 Mar 2017

Santa Barbara Infrared (SBIR) & Labsphere Partner to Provide Unique, Fully-Calibrated / Integrated E-O Test Systems

New COLOSUS™ family of fully-calibrated 0.3 to 14+ micron E-O test systems will be showcased at SPIE’s Defense & Commercial Sensing (DCS), Anaheim, CA, April 11-13, 2017 in booths #601 and #800.

31 Mar 2017

Contained Active Freeze Drying Could Revolutionise Pharmaceutical Materials Drying

A new method of lyophilisation or freeze drying that uses a single, sterilisable, closed vessel to deliver lump free, fine powder product has the capability to revolutionise the production of bulk pharmaceutical powders.

From Hosokawa Micron Ltd 30 Mar 2017

Pittcon Announces Finalists for the Pittcon Today Excellence Awards

Pittcon, the world’s leading conference and exposition for laboratory science, is pleased to announce the selection of eight finalists in the first ever Pittcon Today Excellence Awards conducted by CE Communications, official publishers of Pittcon Today and Pittcon Buzz.

From Pittcon 30 Mar 2017

Haward, Chen, and Uneyama receive the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” Award from TA Instruments

TA Instruments is pleased to announce three recipients of the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” award

From TA Instruments 30 Mar 2017

New Method Allows Researchers to Fine-Tune Properties of Metallic Glass to Develop New Materials

Using Hokkaido University’s high-voltage electron microscope, an international team of researchers have solved a four-decade old puzzle regarding the atomic structure of metallic glasses.

30 Mar 2017

Block Polymers Prove to be Promising for Nanostructured Systems

Significant advances are being introduced by high-performance materials in a wide range of applications starting from digital information storage and energy generation to medical devices and disease screening.

30 Mar 2017

Helical Semiconductors Could Move Holograms in Future

A smartphone display producing moving, holographic 3D images must also be able to twist the light it emits.

30 Mar 2017

Legos and Origami Help Researchers Design Next-Generation Materials

Researchers from Tianjin University of Technology and Harvard University have borrowed the idea of assembling building-blocks from playing with Legos to make next-generation materials a real possibility.

30 Mar 2017

Alicat Scientific a Preferred Supplier for VICI Air Pollution Analyzer Calibrators

Alicat Scientific has been selected by analytical instrumentation manufacturer Valco Instruments Company Inc. (VICI) as one of its preferred suppliers for gas flow controls in its Dynacalibrator Calibration Gas Generators. Alicat’s range of BASIS OEM mass flow controllers provide the control required by VICI to create gas mixes down to fractions of a nanogram per minute, in a compact footprint for easy integration.

From Alicat Scientific, Inc. 29 Mar 2017

Spectro Scientific Wins Patent for Coolant and Diesel Exhaust Fluid Measurement Method Used in its CoolCheckTM 2 Analyzer

Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed water analysis instrumentation and software, has been awarded U.S. patent 9,448,112 B2 for a method to measure two key vehicle fluids. The patent for “Multifunctional fluid meter and method for measuring coolant, bio-diesel, gas-ethanol and DEF” has also been granted in Australia.

From AMETEK Spectro Scientific 29 Mar 2017

Materials Science News

Powder Characterisation Workshop Hosted by Freeman Technology and Surface Measurement Systems

New Duralar® CS-50 System Coats both Inner and Outer Surfaces

High-Speed Data Transfer Enabled by Tiny Black Holes-Based Photodetector

New Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells Set New World-Record Performance

Researchers Succeed in Performing Modern Alchemy by Developing Luminescent Iron Molecules

Santa Barbara Infrared (SBIR) & Labsphere Partner to Provide Unique, Fully-Calibrated / Integrated E-O Test Systems

Contained Active Freeze Drying Could Revolutionise Pharmaceutical Materials Drying

Pittcon Announces Finalists for the Pittcon Today Excellence Awards

Haward, Chen, and Uneyama receive the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” Award from TA Instruments

New Method Allows Researchers to Fine-Tune Properties of Metallic Glass to Develop New Materials

Block Polymers Prove to be Promising for Nanostructured Systems

Helical Semiconductors Could Move Holograms in Future

Legos and Origami Help Researchers Design Next-Generation Materials

Alicat Scientific a Preferred Supplier for VICI Air Pollution Analyzer Calibrators

Spectro Scientific Wins Patent for Coolant and Diesel Exhaust Fluid Measurement Method Used in its CoolCheckTM 2 Analyzer

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