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Boeing, GKN Aerospace Partner to Develop Largest Skyview Panoramic Window for Passenger Jets

Boeing Business Jets has collaborated with GKN Aerospace's Fokker Services to develop, produce, offer and support the largest window available for passenger jets, the Skyview panoramic window.

9 Dec 2016

Scientists Unearth Peculiar Properties and Anomalies Related to Water and Ice

Water is vital to life on Earth, and it's importance cannot be overstated. However, from a scientific point of view, there is more to be known about water and its various solid phases. These phases exhibit a plethora of unusual properties and so-called anomalies which, while being the main reason for the biological and chemical importance of water, are often viewed as controversial.

8 Dec 2016

Cascaded Emission of Electrons Might be Future Application for Radiation Therapy

Scientists are working toward innovative techniques to break down electrons from matter, and this research could have an impact on radiation therapy.

8 Dec 2016

Discovery on Liquid Alkanes can Benefit Petroleum Industry

The latest finding from a group of scientists, headed by Yang Zhang, assistant professor of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has contradicted a theory that has been the norm for more than eight decades and holds major promise for the petroleum industry.

8 Dec 2016

3M Develops 3D Printing Technology Using Fluorinated Polymers

Materials innovator 3M has developed a 3D printing technology using fully fluorinated polymers. It said the technology is particularly exciting for PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) applications and is aimed at the automotive, chemical processing, medical as well as energy and aerospace markets.

8 Dec 2016

MIT Scientists Develop New Wearable, Silicon-Based Material to Smooth Out Wrinkles

A new wearable, silicone-based material has been developed by scientists at MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, biomaterial research group, Olivo Labs and biotech company Living Proof.

8 Dec 2016

Carbon Fibers Could Help Aerospace and Automotive Manufacturers Build Better Vehicles in Future

Carbon fiber is an interesting material, especially when used as the key ingredient in fiber-reinforced plastics and other composites.

8 Dec 2016

Advanced Manufacturing Research Center Develops World’s First Carbon Composite Reconfigurable Machine-Tool

Lightweight and made using a modular design, the tool can be easily moved around by two people and, according to the AMRC, could reduce tooling costs in aerospace and other industries.

8 Dec 2016

Thermwood Adds Thermographic Imaging to Large-Scale-Additive-Manufacturing Machines

Thermwood, the manufacturers of large format 3D printer, have announced the addition of thermographic imaging to their Large-Scale-Additive-Manufacturing machines (LSAM) machines.

8 Dec 2016

Phenom-World Introduces Unique 6-axes Eucentric Sample Holder for Desktop SEM

Phenom-World announces a Eucentric Sample Holder with a 6-axes sub-stage for eucentric tilting and compucentric rotation. The stage is designed for use in the Phenom XL desktop SEM and allows users to move samples around easily without losing sight of the sample detail.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Phenom-World BV 8 Dec 2016

Excelitas Expanding Focus to Provide Advanced Illumination for OEM Applications

New X-Cite Configurable Illumination Platforms Streamline OEM Path to Market for Biomedical Instrumentation Excelitas Technologies® Corp., a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customize...

8 Dec 2016

UV-visible-NIR Microspectroscopy Available with Windows 10®

CRAIC Technologies, the leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microscopy solutions for science, announced that it is now offering it's 20/30PV™ microspectrophotometer running on Windows 10®. Scientists use the 20/30PV™ to measure the UV-visible-NIR transmission, reflectance, fluorescence and polarization spectra of microscopic samples.

From CRAIC Technologies 8 Dec 2016

LOT-QuantumDesign Ltd Appointed as Distributors for Tomocube in the UK and Ireland

Label-free holographic high resolution imaging for cell biology Tomocube - a manufacturer of holographic microscopes has today announced an exciting new business relationship with the highly regarded and well renowned...

8 Dec 2016

Spectro Scientific Event Marks Five Years of Growth in China

Spectro Scientific – one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed water analysis instrumentation and software –noted five years of the company’s growth in the Chinese market with a celebratory event in Beijing.

From AMETEK Spectro Scientific 7 Dec 2016

Rigaku Innovative Technologies Announces Precision EUVL Optical Coatings for Manufacturing Reflective Mirrors used in Semiconductor Printing

Reflective optics critical for high speed printing of chip patterns onto wafers.

From Rigaku Corporation 7 Dec 2016

Materials Science News

Boeing, GKN Aerospace Partner to Develop Largest Skyview Panoramic Window for Passenger Jets

Scientists Unearth Peculiar Properties and Anomalies Related to Water and Ice

Cascaded Emission of Electrons Might be Future Application for Radiation Therapy

Discovery on Liquid Alkanes can Benefit Petroleum Industry

3M Develops 3D Printing Technology Using Fluorinated Polymers

MIT Scientists Develop New Wearable, Silicon-Based Material to Smooth Out Wrinkles

Carbon Fibers Could Help Aerospace and Automotive Manufacturers Build Better Vehicles in Future

Advanced Manufacturing Research Center Develops World’s First Carbon Composite Reconfigurable Machine-Tool

Thermwood Adds Thermographic Imaging to Large-Scale-Additive-Manufacturing Machines

Phenom-World Introduces Unique 6-axes Eucentric Sample Holder for Desktop SEM

Excelitas Expanding Focus to Provide Advanced Illumination for OEM Applications

UV-visible-NIR Microspectroscopy Available with Windows 10®

LOT-QuantumDesign Ltd Appointed as Distributors for Tomocube in the UK and Ireland

Spectro Scientific Event Marks Five Years of Growth in China

Rigaku Innovative Technologies Announces Precision EUVL Optical Coatings for Manufacturing Reflective Mirrors used in Semiconductor Printing

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