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Controlling and Optimizing Nitrogen Use in Industrial Gas Environments

Systech Illinois' video on the Nitrosave system demonstrates significant nitrogen savings and easy installation for improved efficiency in industrial settings.

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

Revolutionize tube drawing with Sonobond's ultrasonic system, designed for fine metal tubing in medical applications, reducing friction and enhancing quality.

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

Materials Science News

Controlling and Optimizing Nitrogen Use in Industrial Gas Environments

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

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

Picosun and Carleton Strike Gold with ALD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PI Launch New Q-521 Compact, Low Cost, Accurate: Mini Positioning Stage

Microspot Thin Film Thickness Measurements by Transmission and Reflectance Microspectroscopy

NEI Announces the Issuance of Multiple Patents on Self-Healing & Superhydrophobic Coatings

Collaborative Research Study Explains Formation of Glass at the Molecular Level

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