Forge Nano Breaks Ground on a major expansion of its lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Morrisville, North Carolina, as part of its U.S. battery manufacturing platform and in partnership with Samsung SDI.
A decades-long collaboration between two Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists is reshaping how we understand learning.
Researchers developed isosorbide-based plasticizers that made brittle poly(isosorbide carbonate) more flexible while preserving its ability to undergo ammonolysis after use. The resulting degradation products supported plant growth, including in an edible vegetable, highlighting a new way to design plastics with a useful end-of-life function.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
20 Aug 2026
A new type of plastic that turns into a gas when heated and reforms into a solid when cooled has been developed by scientists at the University of Surrey, opening up a new approach to processing and recycling polymers.
Biology doesn’t happen at one scale. Molecular interactions unfold in milliseconds and nanometers, while disease-associated change such as in Alzheimer’s spreads across millimeters of brain tissue. Understanding complex biological systems requires scientists to watch both — ideally at the same time and with the same sample.
A prospective life cycle assessment of 37 metals found that net-zero energy technologies will increase mining-related environmental damage, especially from copper, nickel, and aluminum. Even so, the modeled climate benefits of deeper decarbonization outweighed the added metal burden by roughly 400 to 1.
By Dr. Noopur Jain
18 Aug 2026
Researchers showed that alkaline cyanide aerosols interacting with six mineral substrates can spontaneously form mineral-organic hybrid materials, with mineral identity and reaction time shaping the resulting nitrogen-rich organic structures. The findings reveal that minerals can actively influence prebiotic molecular complexity while organic coatings can also stabilize or transform the underlying mineral phases.
By Muhammad Osama
18 Aug 2026
With rockets propelling it down the sled track at Sandia National Laboratories, a semitrailer loaded with mock nuclear weapons slammed into a barrier.
Researchers built a first-principles database of critical magnetic fields for nearly 7,300 electron-phonon superconductors, revealing unexpectedly large numbers of Type-I materials and predicted upper critical fields reaching 66.9 Tesla.
By Muhammad Osama
17 Aug 2026
Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components must handle sudden, punishing heat loads that rival the extreme temperatures faced by spacecraft upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
Beam-sensitive materials can hold the answers to some of today’s most important research questions, but they can also be the hardest to analyze.
On May 4, 1981, a bold vision for the future of chromatography became reality. AC Analytical Controls B.V. was founded by Han Spaans, an innovator whose work would help redefine hydrocarbon analysis for decades to come.
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated ("Teledyne") and Varex Imaging Corporation ("Varex") jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Varex for $18.90 per share payable in cash.
On May 28, 2026, PAC was pleased to welcome a delegation from ASTM International to its Rotterdam facility, home to AC Analytical Controls B.V.
Precision Analyzer Company (PAC), a business unit of Indicor, today announced the acquisition of Emcee Electronics, Inc., a Florida-based manufacturer of water separability and electrical conductivity analyzers used in the testing and certification of transportation fuels.