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New Coating Mechanism Prevents Solar Panels from Being Overheated

The use of smart materials in solar thermal collectors is becoming increasingly popular. A research team from EPFL has produced a coating that can both absorb and radiate heat.

6 Jul 2015

Metalysis Demonstrates One-Step Metal Powder Production Process to EPMA Summer School Members

The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) Summer School was held this year for the first time in the UK, at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Rotherham. As part of this, Metalysis hosted a visit from members of the EPMA Summer School to provide a detailed insight into the one-step metal powder production process at its site in Rotherham.

6 Jul 2015

Insect Legs Inspire Improved Designs of Long Tubular Structures

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin are working on a project to identify the various ways the legs of cockroaches, locusts, bees and stick insects bend and buckle when subject to stress. The researchers believe that their study will help in improving the safety of long tubular structures utilized in hospital equipment, such as catheters and in aircraft to minimize weight.

3 Jul 2015

EVT Introduces ChipEye 5Side ChipControl Command Set with 5 Side Inspection

EVT presents with ChipEye 5Side the ChipControl command set with 5 side inspection as a complete system.

3 Jul 2015

Controlling and Optimizing Nitrogen Use in Industrial Gas Environments

Systech Illinois have released the first in a series of process gas analyser videos which will be released over the coming months, demonstrating how their oxygen analysers and control systems work in a variety of industr...

From Industrial Physics Product Integrity Limited 2 Jul 2015

SEMICON West 2015: Nordson MARCH Introduces the SPHERE Series Plasma Treatment Systems for Semiconductor Applications

Nordson MARCH, a Nordson company (NASDAQ: NDSN), a global leader in plasma processing technology, announces its new SPHERE™ Series plasma systems for wafer-level and 3D packaging applications.

From Nordson MARCH 2 Jul 2015

Ultrasonic Vibrations Significantly Reduce Friction, Increase Production Speed and Improve Internal Surface Finish

Sonobond Ultrasonics announced today that its Tube Drawing System and components are specially designed to accommodate manufacturers of fine metal tubing used in syringe needles, as well as for medical devices and tubing...

From Sonobond Ultrasonics, Inc. 2 Jul 2015

Picosun and Carleton Strike Gold with ALD

Picosun Oy, the leading provider of high quality Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) solutions for industrial manufacturing, and Carleton University, Canada, report uniform ALD gold deposition on complete silicon wafers.

From Picosun Oy 2 Jul 2015

The HMT from Hiden Analytical - Wide-Range Vacuum Process Diagnostics

Vacuum processing is an essential element of diverse chemical, metallurgical and electronics-related procedures including vacuum furnacing, chemical vapour deposition, surface etching and evaporative coating, with operating requirements through diverse pressure stages.

From Hiden Analytical 2 Jul 2015

Plansee Invests in a New Cold Rolling Mill: Thin and Medium-Thickness Sheets Are Now Even Cheaper

Plansee uses modern rolling mills to produce the world's largest molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum and niobium sheets. New investments mean that customers will immediately benefit from cost savings.

From PLANSEE 2 Jul 2015

Leading Taiwan OSAT Adopts Zeta Instruments Metrology System for Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing

Zeta Instruments Inc., announced today that a leading Taiwan based outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) ordered its third Zeta-580™ automated metrology system for production monitoring of advanced semiconductor packaging, including 2.5D interconnect and fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP).

2 Jul 2015

Advion’s Expression Compact Mass Spectrometer Integrated Within Many Top University Chemistry Programs

Advion, Inc., a leading systems and consumables developer for the life sciences industry, announces that at the close of its 2015 fiscal year and after only 33 months on the market, the expression compact mass spectrometer (CMS) is integrated within many of the Top 10 organic and biochemistry programs (as ranked by US News and World Reports) of the United States at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Scripps, Princeton, Michigan and Yale as well as the Top 2 programs in the UK at Cambridge and Oxford (as ranked in The 2015 Complete University Guide).

From Advion Interchim Scientific 2 Jul 2015

MIT Spinout LiquiGlide Licenses its Nonstick Coating to Major Consumer-Goods Company

MIT’s Kripa Varanasi and David Smith developed a liquid-impregnated coating known as LiquiGlide that serves as a slippery barrier between a viscous liquid and a surface in 2009. The coating technology has now been licensed to a major consumer-goods company.

1 Jul 2015

New Methods for Characterizing 3D Macroporous Hydrogels for ‘Smart’ Materials

Chemists at Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski’s lab at Carnegie Mellon University have developed novel methods for characterizing 3D macroporous hydrogels (3DOM hydrogels), which could enable development of new “smart” responsive materials. These materials could be used for various applications, including tissue engineering scaffolds, chemical detectors, carbon capture absorbents, and as catalysts.

1 Jul 2015

Rare-Earth Recovery Process Enables the Creation of Magnets from Recycled Material

Scientists belonging to the Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub managed by the Ames Laboratory, have discovered a novel way to recycle manufacturing waste to recover precious rare-earth magnetic material and utilize it to form useful magnets. One of the ways to minimize demand of rare-earth magnetic materials, which are limited mined resources, is to develop efficient waste-recovery techniques.

1 Jul 2015