Teijin Limited announced today that it has developed the world's first printable electronics material, named NanoGram® Si paste, and related processing technologies, for the local back surface field (L-BSF) photovoltaic (PV) cell capable of high conversion efficiency.
B&W Tek, an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is pleased to announce that our newest handheld Raman system, the TacticID-N, has recently received some exceptional praise from a United States federal law enforcement agency.
CRAIC Technologies, a leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microanalysis solutions, is proud to introduce CRAIC FilmPro™ film thickness measurement software. This software package is designed to plug-in to CRAIC Technology’s microspectrophotometers and their controlling Lambdafire™ software.
Two new additions to Malvern Panalytical’ popular ‘10 ways to…’ whitepaper series provide practical guidance on using rheological testing to develop stable, high performance dispersions.
A team of researchers from the FOM Institute AMOLF and Forschungszentrum Jülich have discovered that the filaments of biopolymer networks become soft when transitioning from an entwined spaghetti of filaments to aligned bow-shaped filaments.
By Alexander Chilton
10 Oct 2014
PicoQuant congratulates Stefan W. Hell, W.E. Moerner, and Eric Betzig, who have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of "super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".
Scientists from Purdue University have created a new class of electrically conductive polymers known as PTMA which are likely to revolutionise the manufacture of smart lightweight batteries, ultrathin antiglare coatings and transparent solar cells for the aircraft and electronics markets in a relatively inexpensive manner.
By Alexander Chilton
10 Oct 2014
Engineers at Lancaster University are reinventing a Terahertz vacuum electron device for monitoring of plasma turbulence in nuclear fusion reactors. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has provided £450,000 for the study, which is being done by a collaborative group of researchers from the University of Leeds, the Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute and the University of California Davis.
By Will Soutter
10 Oct 2014
Victrex has developed a new PAEK-based polymer and an innovative hybrid molding technology. This allows engineers to overmold a PAEK-based composite with fiber-reinforced VICTREX® PEEK injection molding materials.
...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments will participate at Neuroscience 2014. The company will be on booth #2426 exhibiting their correlative microscopy stage, warm stages and humidity generator.
Scientists from the Ultrasonics and Non-destructive Testing (NDT) research group of the University of Bristol have developed a nonlinear acoustic method that would help in the detection of cracks and dents, which were earlier undetected by acoustic imaging systems.
By Will Soutter
9 Oct 2014
A quantum probe for measurement of electric field strength has been developed by researchers belonging to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Michigan. The new technique is based on the quantum properties of atoms, and is linked to the International System of Units (SI).
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.
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
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.