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Researchers Find New Method to Watch Changes in Crystal Structure

Washington State University researchers have met the long-standing scientific challenge of watching a material change its crystal structure in real time.

26 Jul 2016

Organic Carbon-Based Materials Used as Semiconductors in New Generation of Printable, Wearable Electronics

Organic carbon-based materials are increasingly exploited as active elements in electronic devices. A major example, representing a multi-billion dollar industry already, is the field of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays currently found in top-of-the-line smart phones and televisions - apart from which many other areas are also application-targets for electrically and optically active organic materials.

26 Jul 2016

Metals Digester – an Automatic Success

The latest addition to the Thomas Cain range of sample preparation equipment, the DEENA II from SEAL Analytical, is finding global success in environmental laboratories because automation saves time and money, improves safety and lowers the risk of human error

From SEAL Analytical Ltd. 26 Jul 2016

Metrohm USA Seminar Program: Confident KF

Metrohm USA is pleased to announce a series of seminars dedicated to Karl Fischer (KF) analysis hosted in 16 cities across the US and Canada.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 26 Jul 2016

Hosokawa Micron Engineers Are Riding High on New Buggy Fill/Weigh Booth

Hosokawa Micron Ltd announce the launch of a new ‘twin, buggy filling and weighing, containment booth’, designed to handle safe, easy and accurate FIBC filling.

From Hosokawa Micron Ltd 26 Jul 2016

New Analytical Consultancy Offers Unique Combination of Instrumentation, Methodology and Expertise to GC Laboratories

A new consultancy has been established to assist analytical chemists with complex or demanding applications using gas chromatography (GC)

26 Jul 2016

New ‘Super Elastic’ Metal Foam Could Absorb Impacts, Reduce Injuries in Car Accidents

The Mexican automotive industry is growing steadily. The current trends in national technology used for the development of innovative materials provide an opportunity to enter into the international market. Mexican researchers have created products that help reduce the risks of injury in car accidents. These products are derived from the combination of metals that have porous characteristics and a "super elastic" capacity.

25 Jul 2016

Researchers Invent Microneedle Drug Monitoring System for Painless Drug Delivery

A microneedle drug monitoring system has been developed by a team of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland. This new system is capable of enhancing patient comfort and could potentially replace expensive, invasive blood draws.

25 Jul 2016

Saarland University Professor Achieves Highest Award in Field of Microscopic Materials Research

For materials with complex internal structures, researchers still do not precisely understand which substances or which mechanisms are responsible for controlling a desired material property. Experience gathered over many years can, of course, help them deduce how specific additives or processing steps may affect a material.

25 Jul 2016

Eos Quality Leadership: Reproducible Part Quality in Plastics-Based Additive Manufacturing

Holistic approach: Consistent quality assurance from preliminary product to the EOS laser sintering material EOS, the global technology and quality leader for high-end Additive Manufacturing (AM) solutions, offers a q...

25 Jul 2016

Teijin’s FASTENANOTM Polyester Hook-and-loop Fastener Offers Extra-soft Touch

FASTENANOTM, an extra-soft polyester hook-and-loop fastener developed and marketed in Japan by Teijin Limited, will now enter the global market.

25 Jul 2016

Hiden Product Catalogue for Thin Films, Plasma and Surface Engineering

The new Hiden catalogue describes the full range of Hiden mass spectrometry-based products for vacuum coating and etching processes and for surface evaluation studies. Key new products include the UHV Temperature Progra...

From Hiden Analytical 25 Jul 2016

Researchers Develop Durable Material to Help Support Artificial Hip and Knee Joints

Titanium that is four times harder than steel has been discovered at Rice lab.

22 Jul 2016

Scientific Reports Evaluate Air Versus Water Condensers

Asynt announces how new scientific evaluations from the Department of Chemistry, University of Uppsala (Sweden)** and the Australian National University (Canberra) report on the testing of the performance of their CondenSyn air condenser versus traditional water-driven condensers and an alternative commercial air condenser in “real-world” laboratory conditions.

From Asynt 22 Jul 2016

Rusty Steel Triggers Oxygen Evolution

Electrocatalytic water splitting is one of the most promising next generation technologies for environmentally friendly and inexpensive energy conversion and storage.

22 Jul 2016