Electrochemical research often requires more than current, potential and time data alone. While a potentiostat provides essential control and measurement of the electrochemical experiment, it does not directly identify the gases or volatile species being produced during a reaction.
Hiden Isochema, a world leader in high-accuracy sorption instrumentation, today announces the launch of IGAsorp Ultra, the latest addition to its Dynamic Vapor Sorption (DVS) product range.
As transistors approach atomic dimensions, the interface between different materials grows in importance. Researchers from?National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), TSMC Corporate Research, and colleagues from National Taiwan University, Academia Sinica, and the National Center for Instrumentation Research have devised an interface engineering approach to address a major challenge in two-dimensional (2D) transistors.
Rough finishes, limited wear resistance, and poor adhesion to protective coatings can restrict polymer use in demanding applications. Researchers have demonstrated that carefully engineered metal and ceramic multilayer coatings can overcome these limitations, giving commonly used polymers tougher, more durable surfaces.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
11 Sep 2026
Because many natural and industrial processes rely on the transport of bubbles and droplets through fluids, the behavior of ordinary air bubbles and water droplets has been well documented.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an artificial intelligence framework that helps researchers use atomic force microscopes to identify important nanoscale features while autonomously targeting the most informative areas of a sample for closer study.
A review of rare earth element-containing materials finds that cerium, lanthanum, and other REEs can improve redox behavior, oxygen mobility, electrochemical activity, charge separation, hydrogen storage, and membrane performance across several hydrogen-production technologies. Most advances remain at laboratory scale, with wider deployment dependent on cost, resource availability, extraction impacts, long-term stability, recycling, and techno-economic feasibility.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
11 Sep 2026
The Austrian instrumentation specialist eralytics has expanded the technical capabilities of its eraspec oil, a portable, stand-alone FTIR lubricant analyzer.
The advanced manufacturing technologies have driven mechanical equipment toward higher speeds, greater loads, and longer service lifetimes. The intensive and high-frequency operation inevitably leads to friction and wear of mechanical components, compromising their reliability, functionality, and service life, as well as leading to safety issues and causing considerable waste of energy and resources.
A research team at the University of Vienna led by physicist Jani Kotakoski demonstrates how the shape of nanopores in hexagonal boron nitride - the electrically insulating counterpart to graphene, also known as "white graphene" - can be precisely controlled at the atomic level. Electron irradiation in ultra-high vacuum creates circular pores, while adding small amounts of oxygen yields triangular pores. The nanopore engineering presented in the journal Nature Communications thus unlocks new applications in filtration, DNA sequencing, catalysis, and quantum technologies.
Virginia Tech researchers have put that idea to the test, creating degradable polymers with a new molecular architecture that combines properties that are often difficult to achieve in one material: strength, toughness, flexibility, and the ability to block oxygen.
Aerogels are often described as 'frozen smoke' because these extremely light materials are composed mostly of air
Until now, it has been almost impossible to measure the energy density of hydrogen precisely, but a new sensor can register every single molecule. This could lay the foundation for correct accounting in the hydrogen economy.
Researchers developed a room-temperature, maskless electrodeposition method for directly 3D-printing freestanding copper microinductors onto chip contact pads, enabling inductance to be generated without requiring additional dedicated planar silicon area. The printed microsolenoids achieved nanohenry-range inductance, quality factors up to 18, and experimentally validated inductive behavior up to 15 GHz, supporting their potential for post-fabrication integration into future RF electronics.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
10 Sep 2026
High-entropy alloys are highly promising structural and functional materials. Among them, refractory high-entropy alloys possess outstanding high-temperature mechanical properties and have broad application prospects in critical components under extreme working conditions such as aerospace, nuclear power, and gas turbines.