Whitford Corporation announces the establishment of a new medical coatings group dedicated to supporting the use of its coatings on medical devices.
The demand for high precision displacement, distance, temperature, colour and position sensors are ever increasing. Whether for quality inspection or for applications in maintenance, process and machine monitoring, automation or research and development – sensors are making a vital contribution to the improvement of both products and processes.
Warwick Analytical Service (WAS), a division of Exeter Analytical, has launched an analytical breakdown service to provide operational cover for labs using elemental analysis (ICP-OES, CHN microanalysis, Titrimetric) equipment.
Michelman has introduced the latest addition to its line of HP-recommended DigiPrime digital press primers. Water-based DigiPrime 680 is formulated for use with the HP Indigo WS6X00 series of digital presses and is particularly effective for flexible packaging printing applications.
PI (Physik Instrumente) has developed a new PiezoMike linear actuator with integrated incremental encoder for the closed-loop adjustment of mechanical and optomechanical components.
A research team from the Tohoku University and Advanced Institute for Materials Research in association with Group Leader Takashi Taniguchi at the National Institute for Materials Science and Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC) has identified for the first time the atomic structure and bonding mechanism of coherent interfaces between the hardest and second hardest materials, diamond and cubic boron nitride, respectively.
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, leading an international team of researchers, have shown that the high purity single crystals of superconducting material (CeCoIn5), possessing the highest superconducting temperature for a material based on cerium, could function as a suitable system for analyzing the effect of disorder in crystalline materials.
In an attempt to design and fabricate ultra-lightweight (ULW) materials for aircraft structures and vehicles, NASA has chosen three proposals that enable 40% weight reduction of spacecraft used for deep space exploration applications.
The new compact version of the Hiden Biostream gas composition monitor, the QIC Biostream-C, enables automated monitoring of up to 80 independent gas streams yet has a footprint of just 0.35 square metres.
Convion LTD, Fraunhofer IKTS and Plansee SE have one common goal: to contribute to the breakthrough of SOFC technology as a future form of affordable, reliable, and clean energy.
Scientists from Washington State University (WSU) claim that the common prickly lettuce demonstrates potential as a raw material for producing rubber. The prickly lettuce is a common weed and is a wild relative of cultivated lettuce.
By Stuart Milne
8 Apr 2015
ROFIN, worldwide leading solution provider for all aspects of laser material processing in medical device manufacturing, showcases new laser solutions at the Medtec 2015: The most compact tube processing system StarCut Tube SL, the newly developed ultrashort pulse laser source StarFemto and the flexible laser welding system Performance Open.
Foster Polymer Distribution, a business unit of Foster Corporation specializing in the distribution of medical polymers and additives, announces their official partnership with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical to distribute MX-Nylon to the North American medical market.
Brown University Engineers have led a study that has shown that the hair-like appendages of the Venus’ flower basket sea sponge derive their strength from their remarkable internal structure. These tiny appendages, which are made of glass, enable the Venus’ flower basket to anchor itself to the sea floor. This natural internal structure could inspire engineered structures.
By Stuart Milne
7 Apr 2015
The University of Houston researchers have developed a versatile electron-transporting polymer that is highly conductive. This has been a mystery to researchers for a very long time and this discovery holds promise in ultrafast battery applications.
By Stuart Milne
7 Apr 2015