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Thixoforming Technology May Help Improve Competitiveness of Basque Automotive Companies

Researchers, as part of the Co-operative Research Centre into High-performance Manufacturing’s (CICmarGUNE) “InProRet” strategic research project, are collaborating to develop more effective joints with a longer life for joining hybrid and composite metalsthat are required for automotive applications. This would enable production of components with greater value and also aid Basque companies in competing with others in the industry.

9 Oct 2014

Plastic-Like Metals Offer Potential Applications in Spacecraft Hardware Design

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the California Institute of Technology, and Brigham Young University have developed a new technique for producing complex compliant mechanisms, by combining innovative manufacturing methods and materials.

By Alessandro Pirolini 9 Oct 2014

Megatron Sputtering System Produces Coatings with Improved Surface Quality

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST in Braunschweig, Germany, created the Megatron sputtering system that can produce a completely new range of coatings with better surface quality.

9 Oct 2014

Springer Re-Launches SpringerMaterials with Vast Improvements

Springer’s signature materials database – SpringerMaterials – has gotten a total overhaul to make the new site more nimble and user friendly. And the changes are far more than cosmetic as the entire si...

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 8 Oct 2014

On-line Particle Sizing Proves Critical for the Production of ‘Greener’ Slag Cements

Zementwerk Berlin is relying on Malvern Panalytical’ Insitec on-line particle sizing systems to efficiently manufacture high performance, ‘environmentally friendly’ slag cements. The real-time data s...

From Malvern Panalytical 8 Oct 2014

Robin MacGeachy Peak Scientific Managing Director wins Ernst and Young UK - Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Manufacturing 2014

Robin MacGeachy, Managing Director of Peak Scientific, has been awarded the EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Manufacturing. The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ programme is considered the world's most p...

From Peak Scientific 8 Oct 2014

JPK Reports on the Use of the NanoWizard® AFM System at TU Braunschweig to Study the Properties of DNA and DNA Nanostructures

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their AFM system, the NanoWizard®, in the Nanobiosciences Group of th...

8 Oct 2014

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 Awarded for Super-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to the inventors of Super-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy.

By Alessandro Pirolini 8 Oct 2014

Xcalibur XRF Services Introduces ElvaX ProSpector with Elvatech Integrated Computer at FabTech Expo in November

Xcalibur XRF Services, the exclusive US Sales & Service representative for Elvatech line of EDXRF Equipment is happy to announce an upgrade of its current ElvaX ProSpector Handheld EDXRF system. Portable, Powerful, ...

From Xcalibur XRF Services 8 Oct 2014

Gold Nanoparticles on Glass Fibres Direct Light in One Direction

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have developed a new type of optical switch using gold nanoparticles and ultra-thin glass fibres. They utilized the property of spin-orbit coupling of light which enables light to be directed in a single direction.

By Stuart Milne 8 Oct 2014

Researchers Demonstrate Link Between Electron-Boson Coupling and Superconductivity

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have used time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) to measure coupling of electron-boson and high-temperature superconductivity. Ultrafast spectroscopy helps understand the interaction of electrons and atoms with ultra-short light pulses.

By Stuart Milne 8 Oct 2014