Four South Dakota State University faculty members will help improve battery technologies through the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage. The new governor's research center, which is led by South Dakota Mines associate professor Alevtina Smirnova, recently received $3.9 million in state funding.
Membrane filters don't require much energy to purify water, making them popular for wastewater treatment. To keep these materials in tip-top condition, they're commonly cleaned with large amounts of strong chemicals, but some of these agents destroy the membranes in the process.
The first CSEM Inventor Award has been given to Dr. Franz Xaver Pengg for a remarkable invention that he developed and patented at CSEM.
Aceto, the supplier of choice for life sciences and advanced technology specialty ingredients, today announced the acquisition of Biotron Laboratories and Talus Mineral Company (affiliated entities collectively referred to as Biotron herein), leading manufacturers of specialty ingredients for the nutritional supplements industry.
Production of liquid crystals could be done in a highly efficiently eco-friendly manner any sooner.
It is widely recognized that the use of hydrogels in tissue engineering is highly dependent on optimal component selection and the precise characterization of the structural and molecular properties of these components.
By Adrian Thompson
2 Mar 2022
A surprising new source of conductivity from oxygen atoms trapped inside has been noted by a research group probing the properties of a semiconductor integrated with a novel thin oxide film.
Shape-memory polymers are an emerging class of smart polymer materials that have been a research focus since the 1980s in the materials sciences. Writing in Polymers, researchers from Spain and Italy have investigated the synergic effects of electrospun fibers and shape-memory properties, with implications for the fields of biomedical sciences, sensors, smart electronics, and actuators.
By Reginald Davey
2 Mar 2022
Scientists from the University of California (UCLA) have created an exclusive design of ultrathin films for extremely flexible yet mechanically strong bioelectronic membranes that could open doors for diagnostic on-skin sensors that can be positioned precisely over the body’s contours and adapt to its movements.
The deployment of 12 PTR-TOF instruments in Shenzhen supports advanced air quality monitoring and research on atmospheric VOCs and ozone pollution mechanisms.
A paper in Polymers, published this week, has investigated the properties of soil enhanced with biopolymers. Whilst there has been growing research interest in soil engineering with biopolymers, thus far there has been little engineering application for these materials to enhance the properties of soil. This research has implications for research into the improvement of soils for construction purposes.
By Reginald Davey
2 Mar 2022
Writing in Sustainability, researchers from Portugal and Spain have analyzed the loss of animal byproducts in food retail and the valorization of waste streams.
By Reginald Davey
2 Mar 2022
In a recent study published in the open-access journal Materials, researchers analyzed the characteristics of an ultrasonic acoustic field generated by a laser inside a fused quartz crystal cell-based acousto-optical (AO) modulator.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
2 Mar 2022
In a review recently published in the journal Biomaterials, the researchers presented a detailed discussion regarding smart biomaterial-based platforms. They also discussed the effect of cells on the controlling parameters of such platforms.
By Surbhi Jain
2 Mar 2022
In an article recently published in the open-access journal Materials, the researchers presented a detailed discussion regarding the shock imprinting technique using polymer molds through a combination of numerical analysis and experimental research.
By Surbhi Jain
2 Mar 2022