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New 3D Printing Process Prints Stronger Nonmetallic Materials in Record Time

3D printing has changed the world. It's allowed the aerospace, medical, automotive, manufacturing and many other industries to customize parts and prototypes in ways they never could before.

14 Mar 2024

Harnessing Lignin Nanoparticles: Insights into Enhancing Sun Protection in Cosmetics

Lignin nanoparticles (LNPs) have emerged as promising candidates for enhancing sun protection in cosmetics, offering superior UV-blocking capabilities compared to soluble lignin oligomers.

14 Mar 2024

Emerson’s New Compact, Rugged PC Built to Connect Industrial Floor to Cloud

Emerson today announced the new PACSystems™ IPC 2010 Compact Industrial PC (IPC), a rugged industrial computer designed to handle a wide range of machine and discrete part manufacturing automation applications.

From Emerson 14 Mar 2024

IDTechEx Discusses Developments in Long Duration Energy Storage Technologies

As the volume of variable renewable energy (VRE) sources penetrating electricity grids increases globally, so does the need to manage the increasing uncertainty and variability in electricity supply.

From IDTechEx 14 Mar 2024

Optical Metrology for Every Budget and Every Level of Expertise

From April 23 to 26, Stuttgart will once again be all about quality management. The Austrian measurement technology manufacturer Bruker Alicona sees its presence at Control 2024, the inter-national trade fair for quality assurance, as a duty to communicate the clear advantages of optical 3D meas-urement technology.

From Bruker Alicona 14 Mar 2024

New "Redox Gating" Technique Promises Highly Efficient Microelectronics

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have made a breakthrough that could pave the way for a novel type of microelectronic material to fulfill this need.

14 Mar 2024

New Electrode Material Offers Promise for Clean Energy Production

Hydrogen (H2) is being explored as a potential alternative to fossil fuels, which contribute significantly to atmospheric emissions and global warming. However, reducing production costs is essential for it to be a feasible choice.

14 Mar 2024

New Technology Turns Biomass Into Eco-Friendly Plastics

Jeremy Luterbacher's team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL) has recently published a study that describes a novel method for creating high-performance plastics using renewable resources.

14 Mar 2024

IDS Joins the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI)

The Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) is probably the most ambitious project for applied artificial intelligence in Europe. Its home will be a large, circular campus in Heilbronn, close to IDS headquarters. ...

From IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH 14 Mar 2024

KIC Presents Contact-Less Thermal Analysis™ at APEX: A New Reflow Process Inspection Sensing Technology

KIC, a renowned pioneer in thermal process and temperature measurement solutions for electronics manufacturing, is excited to announce its participation in the 2024 IPC APEX EXPO, scheduled to take place April 9-11, 2024 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California.

From KIC 14 Mar 2024

High-Entropy Inorganic Materials to Advance Sustainable Uses

Scientists in Manchester are spearheading investigations into the potential of inorganic high-entropy materials (HEMs). Due to the somewhat paradoxical stabilization of chaos in their structure, HEMs deviate from the conventional understanding of a material, which is that of something that is stabilized by forming bonds with other atoms.

13 Mar 2024

The Potential of Spatiotemporal Phase Change Materials in Solar Energy Innovation

Solar thermal fuels, or STFs, are able to transform solar energy into chemical energy that can be stored for a long period and released as thermal energy when required utilizing certain triggers.

13 Mar 2024

Fastest-Growing Circular Tech Company Ranked 257th on Prestigious FT1000 List

Alchemy, the fastest-growing circular technology company globally, headquartered in Dublin, has been named as Ireland’s top-ranking business in the Financial Times’ world-renowned FT1000 list.

13 Mar 2024

Rubber Additives for Sustainable Tire Production

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS will be presenting its comprehensive range of additives and solutions for the tire industry at Tire Technology Expo 2024 in Hanover, Germany.

13 Mar 2024

Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. Selects Velo3D's Metal Additive Manufacturing Solution to Revolutionize the Supply Chain for the U.S. Navy

Velo3D, Inc. (NYSE: VLD), today announced Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. (BPMI) has selected a fully integrated metal additive manufacturing solution from the company to produce parts for the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. The Sapphire XC large format printer, calibrated for stainless steel 415, will be operated by ATI (NYSE: ATI) at its new additive manufacturing facility outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

13 Mar 2024