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Researchers Unravel Mystery of Physics-Connection Between Glass Formation and Crystallization

Glasses are amorphous solids, meaning that they are neither fluids nor crystals. They are one of the greatest puzzles of condensed matter physics. How glass is formed has been a matter of debate over years. Is it due to the freezing of thermal motion of some regions? Or is it due to the clusters or particles which do not fit to produce a crystal?

5 Jul 2016

Iowa State University Researchers Discover 3D Paper-Based Microbial Fuel Cell with Potential Applications

Iowa State University scientists have displayed a proof-of-concept 3D paper-based microbial fuel cell (MFC) that uses capillary action to direct the liquids via the MFC system and eradicate the requirement of external power. Their findings have been reported in the journal TECHNOLOGY.

5 Jul 2016

Guiding the Way for Operators

Earlier this year RCT successfully delivered its ControlMaster® Guidance ATX2200 Teleremote training course to operators at Renison Tin Mine in Tasmania - with an overwhelming response.

5 Jul 2016

Fashion Designer Jasna Rok Showcases Collection Based on Smart Plastics and Smart Textiles

At the upcoming FashionTech Conference in Berlin and the Fashion Week in Amsterdam, fashion designer and start-up Jasna Rok will present their “Fashion On Brainwaves” to the public.

From IMEC 5 Jul 2016

Cortec® Forever Changes the Anticorrosion Coating Business! EcoShield® 386 is the First Water Based Coating Ever with Salt Spray Resistance of Over 1,000 Hours in ASTM B117 Test!

Never before has a water based coating passed 1,000 hours of salt spray testing. Never before was it thought possible to get so much protection at only 1 mil dry film thickness (DFT). Now, through the cutting edge Nano VpCI® coatings chemistry of Cortec® Laboratories, the first water based coating has been created to withstand a minimum 1,000 hours of intense salt spray at super thin coverage rates!

From Cortec Corporation 5 Jul 2016

Australian Planetary Scientists Congratulate Nasa After Juno Enters Jupiter’s Orbit

Early this afternoon, while many on Australia’s East Coast were finishing their lunch, the spacecraft Juno entered the orbit of Jupiter more than 588 million kilometres away. The extraordinary achievement, label...

From ANSTO 5 Jul 2016

Workshop Helps Graduate-Level Researchers Translate Experiments into Powerful Visuals

What do engineers see when they look at their nanocrystal, microneedle, and quantum-dot experiments? Results, of course.

4 Jul 2016

Picosun and University Of Helsinki Shed New Light On ALD

Picosun Oy, the leading supplier of advanced Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film technology, provides equipment and solutions for commercial utilization of photo‐assisted ALD. Photo‐ALD enables novel ALD ...

From Picosun Oy 4 Jul 2016

BioTek Instruments Expands in Canada

BioTek Instruments, Inc. affirms their ongoing investment across the North American microplate-based technology market with the expansion of their business in Canada. The dedicated sales and support operation will focus ...

4 Jul 2016

SUSS MicroTec Announces New Mask Aligner Series MA/BA Gen4

SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry and related markets, announced the launch of the MA/BA Gen4 series today. The new generation of SUSS MicroTec’s se...

From Focuslight Technologies Inc. 4 Jul 2016

Fluorescent Polymer Gels Could be Used to Spot Structural Failure in Oil, Gas and Wind Equipment

An MIT research team is in the process of creating fluorescent polymer gels capable of changing color when they are heated, exposed to acid, shaken, or disrupted in some form. With this kind of response, these innovative materials hold promise as effective sensors for identifying modifications in structures, the environment or in fluids.

1 Jul 2016

Researchers Explore Interactions Between Solvents and Biomolecules Change at Extreme Pressure

Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Technische Universität Dortmund have examined how the interactions between solvents and biomolecules change at high pressure.

1 Jul 2016

MSU Graduate Awarded NSF Fellowship to Explore Ways to Improve Structural Fibers Used in Composite Materials

Nathan Fritz, a fall 2015 graduate of Montana State University’s Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellowship to research ways to improve the structural fibers used in composite materials.

1 Jul 2016

Björk Selects Stratasys' 3D Printed Mask for Tokyo Performance

Stratasys Ltd., the 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, today unveiled a 3D printed mask in collaboration with widely-acclaimed designer Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group.

1 Jul 2016

Researchers Use Drop of Water to Study Relationship Between Adhesion and Stiction

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich have created a system that would enable swapping of adhesion and stiction (static friction) of a water drop on top of a solid surface.

1 Jul 2016

Materials Science News

Researchers Unravel Mystery of Physics-Connection Between Glass Formation and Crystallization

Iowa State University Researchers Discover 3D Paper-Based Microbial Fuel Cell with Potential Applications

Guiding the Way for Operators

Fashion Designer Jasna Rok Showcases Collection Based on Smart Plastics and Smart Textiles

Cortec® Forever Changes the Anticorrosion Coating Business! EcoShield® 386 is the First Water Based Coating Ever with Salt Spray Resistance of Over 1,000 Hours in ASTM B117 Test!

Australian Planetary Scientists Congratulate Nasa After Juno Enters Jupiter’s Orbit

Workshop Helps Graduate-Level Researchers Translate Experiments into Powerful Visuals

Picosun and University Of Helsinki Shed New Light On ALD

BioTek Instruments Expands in Canada

SUSS MicroTec Announces New Mask Aligner Series MA/BA Gen4

Fluorescent Polymer Gels Could be Used to Spot Structural Failure in Oil, Gas and Wind Equipment

Researchers Explore Interactions Between Solvents and Biomolecules Change at Extreme Pressure

MSU Graduate Awarded NSF Fellowship to Explore Ways to Improve Structural Fibers Used in Composite Materials

Björk Selects Stratasys' 3D Printed Mask for Tokyo Performance

Researchers Use Drop of Water to Study Relationship Between Adhesion and Stiction

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