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TU Wien Researchers Devise New Method to Produce 3D-Printed Magnets

How can a magnet be produced with precisely the right magnetic field? A team of researchers from TU Wien has a solution for the first time: a 3D printer can make magnets.

26 Oct 2016

Researchers Create Silicon-Germanium Core Fibers for Faster Transistors, Optical Transmission

Glass fibers are used in numerous applications - from connecting people to the internet to enabling keyhole surgery by supplying light via medical devices such as endoscopes. Although today's fiber optics is versatile, scientists globally are eager to broaden their capabilities by incorporating semiconductor core materials to the glass fibers.

26 Oct 2016

Researchers Examine Increased Complexity in Splitting of Disulphide Bonds Under Tensile Stress

Bonds between two sulfur atoms that link long molecules together are indispensable in rubber and proteins. Unexpected complex processes are generated when pulling from outside on the disulphide bonds.

26 Oct 2016

Selecting Successful Conservation Strategies at the Mary Rose Trust Using the X-MET8000

The X-MET8000 Optimum handheld X-ray fluorescence analyser from Oxford Instruments is used regularly by the Mary Rose Trust’s conservation team, responsible for conserving and displaying the Mary Rose hull and her artefa...

From Oxford Instruments 26 Oct 2016

Edwards Launches New Smart Thermal Management System at SEMICON® Europa 2016

Smart TMS helps semiconductor, flat panel display and solar manufacturers improve their process performance and safety by reducing vacuum/abatement pipework condensation.

From Edwards Vacuum Ltd 26 Oct 2016

$CRAIC Technologies Offers Superior Glass Refractive Index Measurements$

CRAIC Technologies Offers Superior Glass Refractive Index Measurements

Whether your lab is in need of a complete, easy-to-use system or you need to upgrade your current system, CRAIC Technologies’ rIQ™ is the perfect low cost option for you. The rIQ™ pairs top of the line hardware with unbeatable software options and stage control to give the most user friendly and stable glass analysis experience available.

From CRAIC Technologies 26 Oct 2016

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26 Oct 2016

Harper Teams with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Carbon Fiber Project

Harper International, world leader in custom thermal processing solutions for advanced materials, announced that in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) they have been awarded funding for a project through the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office’s HPC4Mfg Program.

From Harper International 25 Oct 2016

Axalta’s New Self-bonding Electrical Steel Coating Offers Longer Shelf Life and Better Handling

Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global manufacturer of liquid and powder coatings has developed a new one-component self-bonding electrical steel varnish called Voltatex® 1175 W - 1 K.

25 Oct 2016

Self-Assembled Nanomaterials Could Store Large Amounts of Tensile Strain

Next to silicon, germanium (Ge) is the most widely used semiconductor material in the world. While it is great at conducting electricity, Ge is inefficient at turning light into electricity or electricity into light, and this factor restricts its use in other applications.

25 Oct 2016

Harvard University Researchers Build First Sensor-Integrated 3D-Printed Organ-on-a-Chip

Researchers from Harvard University have successfully built the first sensor-integrated completely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip.

25 Oct 2016

New Options Increase Versatility of High Pressure Parallel Reactor

The Asynt MultiCell is a lightweight, high pressure parallel reactor designed for undertaking experiments including carbonylation, hydrogenation, catalysis and supercritical fluid reactions as well as air sensitive material studies.

From Asynt 25 Oct 2016

Researchers Develop 3D Printed Materials that Shrink when Heated

3D printed materials with a unique property of shrinking when heated instead of expanding have been developed by a team of researchers, with members from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Additive Manufacturing Initiative.

25 Oct 2016

A True ONE-Stop Inspection Solution – from Back-End Semiconductor to PCB Assembly

ViTrox Technologies designs and manufactures innovative, leading-edge and cost-effective automated vision inspection equipment and system-on-chip embedded electronics devices for the semiconductor and electronics packaging industries.

25 Oct 2016