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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

The X-Cite Vitae™ product family from Excelitas streamlines OEM development, offering customizable illumination for improved biomedical diagnostics and imaging.

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

With LOTQuantumDesign as a distributor, Tomocube enhances its presence in the UK, providing top-tier support for innovative holographic imaging solutions.

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

New Polymers Could Allow Electric Cars to Travel as Far as Petrol Cars on Single Charge

RESEARCHERS CLAIM to have found a form of battery power that would allow electric cars to travel as far as petrol cars without long periods waiting for recharge, while also allowing mobile devices to recharge in seconds.

7 Dec 2016

New Neonatal Sensing System Uses Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy and Time-Resolved Near-IR Spectroscopy

According to the Global Action Report published by the World Health Organization, there are 15 million preterm births every year and this number is increasing. Furthermore, about 1.1 million of those babies unfortunately do not survive.

7 Dec 2016

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Could Dominate Automotive Industry in Future

You’d have to be completely uninterested in cars or any other type of transportation to not recognize that automobiles are undergoing a major transition. They no longer run solely on internal-combustion engines and burn petroleum-based fuels. Nowadays, consumers routinely purchase vehicles that run in part or entirely on electricity.

7 Dec 2016

Wobulation Technique Enables 3D Printer to Produce More Sophisticated Microstructures

Flow-lithography is a lithographic method for continuously generating polymer microstructures for various applications such as bioassays, drug-delivery, cell carriers, tissue engineering and authentication.

7 Dec 2016

UCSB Engineer Receives Coveted Award for Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature

Glenn Fredrickson, a UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) engineer, has been presented with the 2016 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature awarded by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

7 Dec 2016

Materials Science News

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

New Polymers Could Allow Electric Cars to Travel as Far as Petrol Cars on Single Charge

New Neonatal Sensing System Uses Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy and Time-Resolved Near-IR Spectroscopy

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Could Dominate Automotive Industry in Future

Wobulation Technique Enables 3D Printer to Produce More Sophisticated Microstructures

UCSB Engineer Receives Coveted Award for Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature

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