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New Type of Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitor with Shape Memory for Energy-Storage Textiles

Wearing your mobile phone display on your jacket sleeve or an EKG probe in your sports kit are not off in some distant imagined future. Wearable “electronic textiles” are on the way. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Chinese researchers have now introduced a new type of fiber-shaped supercapacitor for energy-storage textiles. Thanks to their shape memory, these textiles could potentially adapt to different body types: shapes formed by stretching and bending remain “frozen”, but can be returned to their original form or reshaped as desired.

20 Nov 2015

EuroCPS Calls for Innovative Cyber-Physical System Projects

CEA-Leti, coordinator of the pan-European consortium EuroCPS, today announced that the 15 partners are continuing their support for SMEs, midcaps and large companies with the second open call for industrial projects, which is open from Oct. 28 to Dec. 2. Innovative cyber-physical system (CPS) projects can be submitted.

20 Nov 2015

Macronix Debuts High Performance Quad SPI NOR Flash for Xilinx UltraScale FPGAs

Macronix International Co., Ltd., a leading integrated device manufacturer in the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) market, today announced a new high performance Quad SPI NOR flash for the Xilinx® 7 Series and UltraScale™ FPGAs. These FPGA’s are geared towards the aerospace and defense, industrial, and public safety applications. The Macronix MX66U51235FME is the industry’s first commercially available extended temperature range product to meet the grueling demands of the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) market.

20 Nov 2015

Suitable Motion Controller for all Ultrasonic Piezo Motors and Stages: From Precision Positioning to Handling

Piezo-based ultrasonic drives ensure high dynamics and compact dimensions in positioning systems. An integral part of the philosophy behind the PILine® drives from PI (Physik Instrumente) is the flexibility to respond to user requirements. In this context, the range of motion controllers has now been expanded.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 20 Nov 2015

Strategies in Light Europe: Trinseo Highlights Plastics for LED Lighting

Trinseo the global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber, will showcase its plastics for LED lighting at Strategies in Light Europe at booth B8 from November 18 – 19 at the ExCel Convention Center in London, England. Strategies in Light is co-located this year with LuxLive, Europe’s biggest annual lighting event

20 Nov 2015

Researchers Successfully Produce Integrated Flexoelectric MEMS on Silicon

“Moore’s law”, according to which chip performance would double approximately every two years, approaches its limit: soon it would be impossible to produce smaller transistors. A new quest, nick-named “more than Moore”, aims to add new functionalities within each chip by integrating smart materials on top of their silicon base.

20 Nov 2015

DSM’s Patent Position for Proprietary Diablo Technology Confirmed by European Patent Office

Royal DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials, announces that the European Patent Office has confirmed DSM’s position with respect to its Diablo technology, overturning an attempt to revoke the patent.

20 Nov 2015

HORIBA Scientific Announces New Product Line Manager for Optical Spectroscopy Division

Francis Ndi has been promoted to Product Line Manager for HORIBA's Optical Spectroscopy Division, leveraging his extensive experience in sales and applications.

From HORIBA 20 Nov 2015

New TAM IV from TA Instruments

TA Instruments introduces the new TAM IV and TAM IV-48, the world’s most sensitive, stable, and flexible microcalorimeter systems.

From TA Instruments 19 Nov 2015

Hosokawa Micron Ltd Joins the Space Race

Engineers at Hosokawa Micron Ltd have literally taken their latest glove-box developments into another dimension as a result of the company’s recent collaboration with the European Space Agency.

From Hosokawa Micron Ltd 19 Nov 2015

Free Webinar on X-ray Analysis of Confectionary and Food Ingredients

PANalytical, the world’s leading supplier of analytical instrumentation and software for X-ray and related techniques, announces their free webinar on X-ray analysis of confectionary and food ingredients on 10 December 2015, presented by Andrew Fussell, pharmaceutical and food segment manager, PANalytical B.V., The Netherlands.

19 Nov 2015

Geomechanics Researchers Call on AXT Expertise to Help Solve the Mysteries of Granular Materials Flow

Professor Itai Einav at the University of Sydney runs a world-class research facility with unique capabilities specialising in geomechanics and granular physics. This involves the study of the motion of granular materials such as soil and rock and their interaction with obstacles.

From AXT Pty Ltd 19 Nov 2015

$Another High-Powered X-Ray Diffractometer Destined for Australia$

Another High-Powered X-Ray Diffractometer Destined for Australia

AXT is proud to announce the sale of another 9kW Rigaku SmartLab X-ray Diffractometer (XRD). This is the second order for a high-powered XRD in as many years. This system will be installed at CSIRO’s Manufacturing Flagship in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton.

From AXT Pty Ltd 19 Nov 2015

Ideal where space is tight and performance is critical: Copper oxide coated foam heat sinks

Microporous copper foam coated with a thin, hard layer of copper oxide provides outstanding performance as a low-profile heat sink in passive cooling environments. The underlying microporous copper foam structure of t...

From Goodfellow 19 Nov 2015

MIT Researchers Develop Tunable Metallic-Cage Gels

A novel material that displays both the stiff behavior or a solid and the soft, visoelastic behavior of a polymer gel has been developed. The material is a hybrid of a metal organic cage and a metallogel and could be used for specific gas storage, targeted drug delivery and water filtration.

By Jake Wilkinson 18 Nov 2015