Researchers at the University of Missouri have designed a new material that is capable of controlling elastic waves which travel through air. This latest breakthrough could provide promising applications in military, medical and imaging fields.
By Alexander Chilton
26 Jan 2015
Stratasys, a worldwide supplier of additive manufacturing solutions and 3D printers, has announced that the custom earphone manufacturer Normal has adopted their 3D printers for the mass customisation of earphones.
By Alexander Chilton
26 Jan 2015
A fast GC add-on for PTR-TOFMS trace gas analyzers and the new PTR-QiTOF are now available.
Scientists from Kyoto University and the University of Bristol have harnessed information theory and computer simulation to solve the long-running mystery of whether glass ever stops flowing.
By Will Soutter
22 Jan 2015
Titan Enterprises has released a new data recording version of its Atrato ultrasonic flowmeter software interface.
The Hiden CATLAB-PCS combined microreactor and mass spectrometer system is purpose designed for the characterisation and evaluation of catalysts together with general thermal studies including temperature programmed desorption and reaction testing.
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created complex multimodal polymer fibers that have the ability to deliver drugs and optical signals into the brain, directly. These fibers also enable continuous monitoring of the effect of numerous inputs thorough simultaneous electrical readouts. Further, these fibers can be produced with thickness less than that of a hair’s width.
By Stuart Milne
22 Jan 2015
Scientists belonging to the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have collaborated with global partners to build a germanium-tin (GeSn) semiconductor laser for applications in silicon chips. This semiconductor is made up only of main group IV elements, and hence the GeSn laser can be applied onto silicon chips directly. A new method for data transmission using light on computer chips is offered by this semiconductor. The speed of data transfer is faster and requires only a fraction of the energy that is required when compared to data transmission through copper wires.
By Stuart Milne
22 Jan 2015
Researchers at the VTT Technical Centre of Finland have developed a new mass production method for flexible organic solar panels, based on traditional printing technology. The possibility of easily producing flexible solar panels offers a whole range of new design possibilities, with the solar panels offering aesthetic value for both the interior and exterior of buildings.
As part of its rapidly expanding range of analytical tools for materials characterization, Malvern Panalytical will showcase a new chromatography system and detectors at Pittcon 2015 (Mar 8th – 12th, New Orleans, USA).
Hardide Coatings, provider of advanced surface coating technology, has today announced investment in a new Virginia manufacturing plant worth £4.5m. The investment will see Hardide Coatings expand provision of its range of specialist nanostructured coatings throughout North America.
Scientists at Stanford University have discovered that when perovskite, a crystalline material, is stacked on top of a conventional silicon solar cell, it provides a big boost to the efficiency of the solar cell.
By Stuart Milne
22 Jan 2015
Over the last decade, one of the most potential findings in the field of condensed matter physics is the presence of "topologically protected" electrical conductivity on the surface of certain materials, whose bulk interior behaves as an insulating material, resulting in new potential applications and various unusual electronic states. Most of these phenomena, however, have not yet been studied properly.
Physicists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Technische Universität München have determined the speed at which an electron races through a single layer of atoms of a crystal lattice.
Engineers at Trinity College, Dublin are leading a European Space Agency (ESA) project that aims to fine-tune revolutionary ‘Cold Spray’ 3D printing technology.