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Automating Particulate Analysis on Filter Papers

Prior Scientific announces the HH201 and HH201F filter sample holders for its precise H101A and flat top H101F ProScanÂ® motorised microscope stages.

25 Jan 2017

U-M Scientists Design New Metamaterial that can Switch Between Soft and Hard

When a material is created, you cannot change whether that material is soft or hard. However, a group of scientists at University of Michigan have developed a new method to design a "metamaterial" that can switch between being soft and hard without altering or damaging the material.

24 Jan 2017

Chemists Introduce Catalysts Capable of Working Even Beyond Metathesis Reactions

As drugs that comprise of one or more fluorine atoms tend to be more powerful, highly stable, and easily absorbed by the body, drug developers would like to incorporate fluorine or trifluoromethyl, a fluorine-comprising unit, into experimental drugs. However, this process has been challenging.

24 Jan 2017

The World's Fastest Metals Analyser Vulcan, Launched by Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments has launched Vulcan, the fastest metals analyser with the most advanced reporting tools on the market. Vulcan is an ergonomic, balanced handheld LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) analyser with a simple user interface. Vulcan has been designed for the rapid identification of a wide range of alloys in manufacturing plants within multiple industries and the scrap metal processing/recycling markets world-wide.

24 Jan 2017

Powder Metallurgy Machinability Seminar Program Available

The PM Machinability Seminar offers essential knowledge on machining, tooling, and additives to boost efficiency and profitability in the PM industry.

24 Jan 2017

Monitoring the Oxygen Content in Bio-methane-to-grid Supply

Since 1984, Orbital has provided advanced technology solutions for the natural gas industry. Orbital’s customers, including the National Grid and the UK's gas distribution networks, rely on its crucial engineering support and specialised knowledge. Its value-added services and innovative products reduce the time it takes to identify, design and begin cost-effective delivery of new technology to the natural gas and other industries.

24 Jan 2017

Tough Aqua Material for Water Purification

Water purification processes usually make use of robust membranes for filtering off contaminants while working at high pressures. Can materials employing water as major component be made strong enough to suit such a demanding application? Israeli scientists now report in the journal Angewandte Chemie that a supramolecular aqua material can be utilized as a sustainable membrane for water purification at high pressures.

24 Jan 2017

Magnesium Elektron's SynerMag® Bioresorbable Alloy Named 2016 Product of the Year at Bionow Life Science Industry Awards

Magnesium Elektronâ€™s patented SynerMagÂ® bioresorbable magnesium alloy technology has won the prestigious 2016 Product of the Year award at the Bionow Life Science Industry Awards. Bionow is an organization that supports business growth, competitiveness and innovation within the biomedical and life science sectors across Northern England.

24 Jan 2017

Photocatalysts Capable of Reoxidizing C-H Activation Catalysts Could Revolutionize Pharmaceutical Industry

Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have demonstrated that a greener and simpler version of the C-H activation reaction can be carried out using light from a standard electric light bulb. According to the research team, this is one of the most innovative new reactions for the assembly of complicated chemical structures.

23 Jan 2017

World's First Catalyzed Reaction Initiated with Inexpensive Iron Salts

A new chemical reaction that is catalyzed using simple iron salts - an abundant, low-cost, and sustainable substitute for highly expensive and scarce metals - has been developed by researchers from the University of Huddersfield.

23 Jan 2017

New Hot Runner Nozzles For Thin-Wall And Thick-Wall Applications

The Italian hot runner specialist HRSflow will present in its Multitech line â€“ in which HRSflow has expanded hot runner solutions for multi-cavity molds â€“ new hot runner nozzles of the MTR range, designed for both thin-wall and thick-wall injection molding processes. Additionally, the company will inform about the advances of the partnership between HRSflow Multitech and Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a global leader in plastic packaging development for single-serve beverage and food capsules.

23 Jan 2017

Investment in Production Line Brings New Orders To Alloy Wire

Alloy Wire International (AWI), which employs 28 people across its two factories in the UK, has spent more than Â£150,000 on a host of new machinery that gives its customers access to wider and thinner or bigger cross-section profiles (up to 100mm2) in more than 60 different alloys.

From Alloy Wire International - High Performance Wire 23 Jan 2017

Researchers Use Theoretical Simulations to Characterize WTe2 Crystal

In order to characterize a category of metals with fascinating electronic properties that can help to discover other, similarly endowed materials, researchers from Princeton, Yale, and the University of Zurich have put forward a theory-based approach.

20 Jan 2017

Free webinar "Solving structure from powder data: tutorial and best practice"

PANalytical, one of the worldâ€™s leading suppliers of analytical instrumentation and software for X-ray and related techniques, announces their free webinar â€˜Solving structure from powder data: tutorial and best practiceâ€™ on February 9, 2017 presented by Dr. Gwilherm NÃ©nert, Product Marketing XRD, PANalytical B.V., the Netherlands.

20 Jan 2017

Pittcon Announces Call for Nominations for 2018 Awards

The Pittcon sponsors, Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP), are pleased to announce the call for nominations for four prestigious annual awards that will be presented during Pittcon 2018 in Orlando, Florida.

From Pittcon 20 Jan 2017