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Lucideon Publishes New Testing Brochure

Lucideon, the international materials technology company, has published its new Testing Brochure.

23 Jun 2015

University of Manchester Invites Leading Researchers to Participate in Graphene Week 2015

The University of Manchester will be hosting the Graphene Week 2015 organized by the Graphene Flagship – a one billion euro research initiative. The initiative aims to bring all academic and industrial graphene researchers together to discuss about the progress being made with the new material in the last decade, generating new opportunities, jobs and economic growth.

23 Jun 2015

‘Molecular Movie’ Shows How Ring-Shaped Molecules Break Open

For the first time, researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have tracked the ultrafast structural changes in quadrillionths-of-a-second steps during the opening reaction of ring-shaped gas molecules.

23 Jun 2015

Picosun ALD Breaks Through in Medical Technology

Picosun Oy, the leading supplier of high quality Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology for industrial manufacturing, provides the advanced ALD coating solutions to enable the next generation of cutting-edge medical technology.

From Picosun Oy 23 Jun 2015

Porphyrine-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks Hold Promise for Solar Cells

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new material based on porphyrine metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for photovoltaics.

22 Jun 2015

ThyssenKrupp and Maxion to Develop Carbon Fiber-Aluminum Hybrid Wheels

ThyssenKrupp Carbon Components has established a cooperation with Maxion Wheels to develop new ultra-lightweight, carbon fiber-aluminum hybrid wheels for premium vehicles.

22 Jun 2015

OWIS Releases LIMES 124-IMS High-Precision Linear Stages with Integrated Measuring System

For years, they are among the best sellers under the high-precision linear stages – the OWIS® LIMES 124. With their excellent positioning properties they are particularly suitable for use in research and devel-opment, where highest precision is required.

From OWIS GmbH 22 Jun 2015

Exeter Analytical Model 440 System Enables Rapid, Accurate Analysis of Carbon & Nitrogen in Fertilizers

The analysis of fertilizers to determine their Carbon and Nitrogen content can be done very rapidly and accurately on the Exeter Analytical Model 440 system.

22 Jun 2015

Markes Releases Demonstration Videos on GC–TOF MS Instrument Control Software

Markes International (Llantrisant) has announced the release of a set of six videos explaining the key features of its TOF-DS™ software package. TOF-DS is an intuitive software platform for control and data-processing of Markes’ BenchTOF™ time-of-flight mass spectrometers coupled with coupled with a range of popular gas chromatographs (GCs) and autosamplers.

From Markes International Limited 22 Jun 2015

DESY Scientist Film Shock Waves in Diamonds with Ultra-Short Pulses of X-rays

A research team led by DESY scientistshave filmed shock waves in diamonds using ultra-short pulses of X-rays, thereby paving the way for investigating exotic material properties.

By Stuart Milne 19 Jun 2015

WITec Win Achema 2015 Innovation Award for the apyron Raman Microscope

WITec’s fully-automated Raman Imaging system apyron won the first prize at the Achema 2015 Innovation Awards in the category of Laboratory and Analytical Technologies. The new Raman system was chosen as the top innovation from among 18 applicants in this category.

From WITec GmbH 19 Jun 2015

Micronic Publishes Technical Note on Ultra Low Binding Polypropylene Tubes for Proteomics

Micronic has published a technical note that describes a study in which the protein binding properties of commercially available sample storage tubes was tested.

18 Jun 2015

Deben Reports on In-Situ µXCT Compressive Testing Research at the University of Portsmouth

Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, report on the µXCT in situ testing being carried out in the School of Engineering at the University of Portsmouth.

From Deben UK Ltd 17 Jun 2015

First Patent Approval for Applied Graphene Materials

Applied Graphene Materials, the producer of specialty graphene materials, is pleased to report that it has received patent approval from the Japanese Patent Office in respect of its graphene production process. The pa...

From Applied Graphene Materials 17 Jun 2015