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Albright Restructures Organization to Better Suit Needs of Current Silicone Molding Market

Albright Technologies, a leading provider of silicone prototyping and low-volume production molding solutions, announced today a restructuring of its organization following a comprehensive evaluation of its workforce. The restructuring will pose the company to be better suited to the needs of the current silicone molding market.

21 Apr 2015

New Method for Discovering Superconductors with High Superconducting Critical Temperature

Professor Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University, has led an international team of researchers who have discovered a new state of matter called as the Jahn-Teller metal. In this state, localized electrons on the fullerene molecules demonstrate co-existence with metallicity.

20 Apr 2015

Researchers Predict Properties of Granular Platonic Solids for MEMS Applications

A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame have conducted some research on the ways in which precise statistical illustration of heterogeneous particulate materials used within statistical micromechanics theories impacts thermo-mechanical properties.

20 Apr 2015

Michelman Conducting Five Product Presentations at European Coatings Show 2015

Michelman, a global developer and manufacturer of water-based coatings, surface additives and polymers will be conducting five product presentations at the European Coatings Show 2015, being held from April 21-23, 2015 i...

From Michelman Inc 20 Apr 2015

New ICP-MS is Received with Great Interest at Analytica Expo in Moscow

Analytik Jena’s PlasmaQuant ® MS was presented to the public at the Analytica Expo in Moscow during a workshop held at the Analytik Jena booth. Used for element trace analysis, the system is suitable for a wide range of routine applications in environmental analysis, food safety, mining, chemistry, and petrochemistry.

From Analytik Jena 20 Apr 2015

Picosun Develops Printed Circuit Board Protection with ALD Technology

Picosun Oy develops a novel ALD method for PCB protection, enhancing reliability in aerospace and consumer electronics with advanced coating solutions.

From Picosun Oy 20 Apr 2015

New Discovery About Rare Element Californium

Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, a Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, has discovered that californium is a transitional element that enables the linking of one part of the Periodic Table of Elements to the next.

17 Apr 2015

Dragon Spacecraft Begins Mission to Resupply the International Space Station

On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft lifted from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station based in Florida, beginning SpaceX’s sixth cargo delivery to resupply cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) via NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. The launch took place at 4:10 pm EDT. Among the two tons of cargo were science payloads that will help robotic explorers and NASA astronauts to prepare for future missions to Mars.

17 Apr 2015

Hosokawa Micron Announces New Mini Cyclomix for Blending of Pharmaceutical Formulations for Dry-Powder Inhalers

To support R&D work for the blending of DPI (dry-powder inhaler) formulations, Hosokawa Micron has developed the Mini Cyclomix lab mixer.

From Hosokawa Micron Ltd 17 Apr 2015

HiPoSwitch Project Develops High-Efficiency, Lightning-Fast Gallium Nitride Power Switches

The European HiPoSwitch project has developed novel nitride (GaN) transistors for high efficiency, high speed gallium nitride power switches.

By Will Soutter 17 Apr 2015

NACE International Honors Exova Corrosion Specialist

A prestigious industry award has been given to Stuart Bond, Group Corrosion Business Development Manager, of Exova.

17 Apr 2015

Graphene-Based Photodetector Rapidly Converts Light into Electricity

Researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) have shown that a graphene-based photodetector can convert light into electrical signals within 50 femtoseconds.

By Will Soutter 16 Apr 2015

Carbon Nanotube Film Holds Promise for Creating Composites for Use in Aircraft Manufacture

MIT aerospace engineers have successfully designed a carbon nanotube(CNT) film that is capable of heating and solidifying a composite without requiring large ovens. The heated film causes solidification of the polymer, when electric power is supplied and it is wrapped over a multilayer polymer composite.

16 Apr 2015

Micro Gas Chromatography System Reduces Analysis Time of Volatile Compounds

Masoud Agah, Virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering associate professor has designed a credit-card-sized gas chromatography platform that is capable of analyzing volatile compounds in few seconds He received the National Science Foundation award to conduct this research and has been involved in the development of micro gas chromatography systems for the past few years.

16 Apr 2015

Study of Interactions Between Floral Form and Pollinator Performance Using 3D Printing

Eric Campos and colleagues from the University of Washington have produced artificial flowers using 3D printing so as to study the effect of flower shape on the foraging mechanism of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta.

16 Apr 2015

Materials Science News

Albright Restructures Organization to Better Suit Needs of Current Silicone Molding Market

New Method for Discovering Superconductors with High Superconducting Critical Temperature

Researchers Predict Properties of Granular Platonic Solids for MEMS Applications

Michelman Conducting Five Product Presentations at European Coatings Show 2015

New ICP-MS is Received with Great Interest at Analytica Expo in Moscow

Picosun Develops Printed Circuit Board Protection with ALD Technology

New Discovery About Rare Element Californium

Dragon Spacecraft Begins Mission to Resupply the International Space Station

Hosokawa Micron Announces New Mini Cyclomix for Blending of Pharmaceutical Formulations for Dry-Powder Inhalers

HiPoSwitch Project Develops High-Efficiency, Lightning-Fast Gallium Nitride Power Switches

NACE International Honors Exova Corrosion Specialist

Graphene-Based Photodetector Rapidly Converts Light into Electricity

Carbon Nanotube Film Holds Promise for Creating Composites for Use in Aircraft Manufacture

Micro Gas Chromatography System Reduces Analysis Time of Volatile Compounds

Study of Interactions Between Floral Form and Pollinator Performance Using 3D Printing

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