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Business Success Results in Office Expansion for Systech Illinois, China

Due to the continued success in promoting and supplying gas analysis instruments to the Asian market, Systech Illinois China are relocating to larger offices in Shanghai. It is wonderful that Frank Liu, General Mana...

From Industrial Physics Product Integrity Limited 1 Jul 2016

DSM Launches ForTii MX Polyamides for Die-cast Metal Replacement

Royal DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials, is once again extending its range of ForTii® high performance polyphthalamides based on polyamide 4T. Following the introduction earlier this year of the ForTii Eco family of partly bio-based grades, it is now launching the ForTii MX grades to provide a more cost-effective alternative than ever to die-casting metals.

1 Jul 2016

Benchtop Scale Fermentation Systems

Cleaver Scientific announces proSET – an innovative new range of benchtop scale fermentation systems designed to provide an optimized cell cultivation solution for applications including growth of sensitive and fragile mammalian and insect cells.

1 Jul 2016

Free webinar on Enhance Your Productivity and Analytical Performance with TheOx Advanced® Fusion Instrument

Claisse, a PANalytical company and global market leader in sample preparation for atomic spectroscopy (including X-ray) analysis, announces their free webinar on Enhance Your Productivity and Analytical Performance with TheOx Advanced® Fusion Instrument. The webinar is held in 3 times zones on 14 and 15 July 2016 and presented by Chantal Audet, Product Manager instruments department at Claisse.

From Malvern Panalytical 1 Jul 2016

Researchers Develop Artificial Water-Repellent Materials with Switchable Wetting Surface

The lotus leaf has a unique feature that prevents the leaf from getting wet when rain falls on it. The water just rolls off without actually wetting the surface of the leaf. This novel characteristic has made room for the possibility of developing artificial materials that are water-repellent just like the lotus leaf.

30 Jun 2016

WSU Scientists Develop Unique Smart Material that Can Change Shape from Heat or Light

Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, multifunctional smart material that can change shape from heat or light and assemble and disassemble itself. They have filed a provisional patent on the work.

30 Jun 2016

New Description of Electron Backscattering Speeds Up Materials Analysis

Without detailed knowledge of the properties of the materials we use today's technology could neither function nor develop. A new description of electron scattering in the surface layers of samples proposed by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw significantly speeds up materials analysis and enables a better understanding of what can really be seen in a sample.

30 Jun 2016

Applied Materials' New Etch Technology Provides Atomic-Level Precision in Selective Removal of Unwanted Materials

Applied Materials, Inc. is revolutionizing etch technology with its Applied Producer® Selectra™ system, the industry's first extreme selectivity etch tool that introduces new materials engineering capabilities for continued scaling of 3D logic and memory chips.

30 Jun 2016

Researchers Capture Spreading of Mixable Liquids into Droplet Hats

When raindrops fall into bodies of water, milk is added to a cup of coffee, and in other mixing and rinsing processes, you might wonder how one liquid is absorbed by the other. Small droplets can be absorbed so fast that our minds perceive it to be instantaneous. However, in reality, there is much more to the process than first meets the eye.

30 Jun 2016

Intel, Tyndall Renew Partnership to Explore Next-Generation Materials, Devices and Photonics Technologies

Intel and Tyndall National Institute in Cork have announced the renewal of a $1.5 million research partnership.

30 Jun 2016

Two IU Chemists Receive NSF Grant to Advance Research on Carbon Recycling

Two Indiana University chemists have received $525,000 from the National Science Foundation to advance research with applications to the emerging field of carbon recycling.

30 Jun 2016

MonoSol Launches New Food Grade Film Application with Dicoisa

MonoSol, the world leader in water-soluble films, announces its newest food grade film customer – Dicoisa. A supplier of color additives based in Mexico City, Dicoisa is using MonoSol’s Vivos® film to package and deliver food colors to processors in Latin America.

From MonoSol 30 Jun 2016

New Hiden Product Catalogue: Catalysis and Thermal Analysis

Hiden Analytical release a new catalogue detailing their latest mass spectrometers and micro-reactors for analysis of gaseous thermal processes. The series includes systems for application to process pressures from 5 bar through to ultrahigh vacuum (UHV).

From Hiden Analytical 30 Jun 2016

Virtual Foundry’s Filamet Enables 3D Printers to Print Pure Metal on Desktop

Filamet™, the new product from The Virtual Foundry, llc in Madison, Wisconsin, lets any standard 3d printer, print pure metal right on the desktop. This Crowdfunded development will likely change the way metal is 3D Printed.

29 Jun 2016

Unique Characteristics of Perovskites Discovered

An international group of scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Rostov-on-Don, China, France, and Germany have explained the movement of charge-carrying particles in perovskite.

29 Jun 2016