From humble beginnings in a small building with just a handful of employees, Michell has grown to become one of the largest high-tech manufacturers in the region, with over 90% of its output exported to Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The workshop was held on the 14th and 15th of July on the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) North Campus, and focused on application and operation of the Rigaku SmartLab Intelligent X-ray diffraction system.
Carl Zeiss Microscopy, a leading provider of microscopy products for life sciences and materials research, highlights the benefits of its new server-based image databasing software, ZEN browser.
The ZEN browser techno...
Researchers at the Oregon State University (OSU) are studying the adhesion mechanism of geckos, which have a peculiar ability to hold on to any surface, including hanging upside down.
By Alessandro Pirolini
13 Aug 2014
The FlexTiles project was launched in 2011 by a consortium of industries, universities and RTOs coordinated by Thales. They have joined forces to develop a programmable heterogeneous many-core platform which can be reconfigured on the fly to meet advanced processing needs such as surveillance drones or driverless cars.
A group of bioengineers has successfully developed a 3D brain-like tissue that exhibits similar structural and functional properties as the rodent brain tissue. The study was funded by NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to set up novel biomaterials and tissue engineering models.
By Alessandro Pirolini
13 Aug 2014
NPL scientists have demonstrated that graphene devices exhibit a different conductivity at the center when compared to the edges.
By Alessandro Pirolini
13 Aug 2014
A new white paper titled The Efficient Use of Elements urges researchers to develop alternative materials and novel methods to technology development to address the issue of scarcity in the supply of critical elements used in a range of products from electric motors to hybrid cars and the iPhone.
By Alessandro Pirolini
12 Aug 2014
Indium Corporation’s Wisdom Qu, assistant technical manager, and Fengying Zhou, research chemist, will present at the SMTA China South Conference Aug. 26-28 in Shenzhen, China.
Wisdom’s presentation, Epoxy...
Morgan Advanced Materials, a global materials engineering company, has signed a new joint development deal with The University of Manchester, a renowned institute specializing in applied and fundamental graphene research.
NASAs saucer-shaped test vehicle was successfully launched into Earth’s atmosphere as part of their Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) mission in June 2014.
By Alessandro Pirolini
12 Aug 2014
Metal oxides and water are two of the most common substances in the world yet the chemical reactions which occur when the two meet were not fully understood until now.
By Alexander Chilton
12 Aug 2014
A new method of 3D printing has been developed by scientists at the University of Zaragoza and Disney Research Zurich which allows the exact reproduction of the hairstyles of an individual on miniature statues.
By Alexander Chilton
12 Aug 2014
The Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute will participate in the NASA Mars-2020 mission, which will primarily focus on detecting the presence of life on the red planet.
By Alexander Chilton
12 Aug 2014
HORIBA Scientific, global leader in Raman spectroscopy systems, is proud to announce the release of a major update to its acclaimed LabSpec 6 Raman spectroscopy software platform.
Featuring a new 3D Surface and Volume...