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BioTek Instruments Embarks on Major Site Expansion

BioTek Instruments celebrated the start of a $4 million, 22,000 square foot facility expansion during a company-wide event on Monday, July 18, featuring honorable guests Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, Congressman Peter W...

22 Jul 2016

Researchers Investigate Special New Coatings to Ensure Food Safety

One of the ways to prevent food waste and food-borne illness is to ensure that surfaces of production units are free from contamination even between scheduled cleanings.

21 Jul 2016

Researchers Develop Garnet-Type Fast Ionic Conducting Oxide for Rechargeable All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

Fast rechargeable all-solid-state lithium batteries could become one of the next generation of energy storage devices due to their outstanding cycle stability, safety and high energy density. In addition, having higher lithium-ion conductivity of more than 1mS/cm at room temperature, the oxide-based solid electrolyte materials must also have chemical stability.

21 Jul 2016

UH Physicist on Board for Thermal Conductor Research

A physicist from the University of Houston will participate in a $7.5 million collaboration to develop an innovative material with a higher conductivity than diamonds.

21 Jul 2016

XEI Scientific to Feature Evactron® Easy Plasma SoftClean (EPSP) with EP Remote Plasma De-Contaminator™, Presenting a Poster on Remote Plasma Cleaning and Radical Recombination Rates at M&M 2016

Join us at XEI Scientific Inc. in Booth #1108 to see the Evactron Easy Plasma SoftClean (EPSC) with EP Plasma De-Contaminator, the newest model in our line of Evactron Plasma De-Contaminators at the Microscopy & Micr...

From XEI Scientific 21 Jul 2016

Explosive Synthesis

Trinitrotoluene or TNT has been considered as the standard measure for explosives for 100 years, although new high-energy-density materials or HEDMs outperform this substance in terms of explosion power, safety, but also environmental compatibility.

21 Jul 2016

Asian Electronic Company Selects Harper for Two New Furnace Systems

Harper International, world leader in custom thermal processing solutions for advanced materials, has been selected by a leading Asian electronic components firm for the design of two high temperature Elevator furnaces for use in their production plant

From Harper International 20 Jul 2016

Researchers Develop Materials that Resemble Cell Membrane and its Properties

A team of materials scientists have developed a new material that behaves like a cell membrane found in nature. Researchers have been seeking similar materials for applications such as drug delivery and water purification.

20 Jul 2016

A New Application Report from Rigaku Describes Rapid ROHS Screening for Toxic Metals in Polyethylene by XRF

Applied Rigaku Technologies, Inc. has announced a new empirical method for the measurement of toxic elements in plastics by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF)

From Rigaku Corporation 20 Jul 2016

Electron Microscopes Used to View Individual Electron Orbitals within an Atom

It is not possible for an electron microscope to take a photo like a mobile phone camera. An electron microscope’s ability to image a structure, and the success of the imaging will depend on the researcher’s understanding of the structure. In most cases, complex physics calculations are required to make complete use of the electron microscopy’s potential.

20 Jul 2016

Trelleborg Nominated for Top Industry Innovation Award

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions’ “constant determination” to push the boundaries has once again been recognized after being shortlisted for a prestigious industry award

From Trelleborg - TAEM 20 Jul 2016

Researchers Define Primary Enhancement for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

A team of researchers from Washington State University have established a primary step to enhance solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), a potential clean energy technology that has struggled to obtain wide commercial acceptance.

19 Jul 2016

Sheffield Hallam Jewellery and Metalwork Student Wins National Award

A jewellery and metalwork student from Sheffield Hallam University has scooped the New Designer of the Year 2016 award

19 Jul 2016

Malleable and Microscopic Building Blocks Developed to Aid Formation of Synthetic Materials

Researchers inspired by a page from Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”, have developed microscopic and malleable self-assembling particles that can act as advanced building blocks in the formation of synthetic materials.

19 Jul 2016

New Molecules Inspired by Vitamins for Better Batteries

A new molecule that is capable of safely storing electricity from irregular sources, such as wind and solar power, has been found by researchers at Harvard. The vitamin B2-inspired organic molecule has high performance rates and can store the energy in large batteries.

19 Jul 2016