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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

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

Materials Science News

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

Business Success Results in Office Expansion for Systech Illinois, China

DSM Launches ForTii MX Polyamides for Die-cast Metal Replacement

Benchtop Scale Fermentation Systems

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

Researchers Develop Artificial Water-Repellent Materials with Switchable Wetting Surface

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

New Description of Electron Backscattering Speeds Up Materials Analysis

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

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