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New Sustainable Hydrosetting Method to Process and Reshape Hydroplastic Polymers

Plastics offer many benefits to society and are widely used in our daily life: they are lightweight, cheap and adaptable.

23 Jul 2021

New Tests can Detect Coal Ash Contamination in Soil with Unprecedented Sensitivity

Scientists at Duke University have developed a suite of four new tests that can be used to detect coal ash contamination in soil with unprecedented sensitivity.

23 Jul 2021

Chemists Succeed in Synthesis and Characterization of Square-Planar Silicon Species

Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds in its natural form with four other elements and its three-dimensional structure takes the form of a tetrahedron.

23 Jul 2021

Global Implications of New European Union Regulations on Batteries

New European Union regulations on batteries could offer a huge boost to the global decarbonisation mission - but only if it leverages its political and economic weight to ensure a fairer global marketplace.

23 Jul 2021

New Standalone Quadrupole Power Supply Brings Extrel Expertise to a Wider User Base

Extrel CMS, the experienced expert in quadrupole mass spectrometry for gas and ion analysis, has launched a new power supply, bringing high-quality performance to more vacuum research systems than ever before.

From Process Insights - Mass Spectrometry 23 Jul 2021

Nanalysis Acquires New York-Based Software Company

Nanalysis Scientific Corp., is pleased to announce that it has acquired 100 percent of One Moon Scientific, a New York based magnetic resonance software company.

From Nanalysis Corp. 23 Jul 2021

TESCAN Launches Next Generation AutoSlicer Module for High Throughput TEM Sample Preparation

TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING a.s. announces its latest generation AutoSlicer™ module for unattended, semi-automated transmission electron microscope lamella preparation in semiconductor failure analysis and materials science.

From Tescan Group 22 Jul 2021

New Class of Molten Sodium Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed a new class of molten sodium batteries for grid-scale energy storage. The new battery design was shared in a paper published today in the scientific journal Cell Reports Physical Science.

22 Jul 2021

Rare Type of Superconductivity Observed in Magic-Angle Twisted Trilayer Graphene

( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type of superconductivity in a material called "magic-angle" twisted trilayer graphene. They report that the material exhibits superconductivity at surprisingly high magnetic fields of up to 10 Tesla, which is three times higher than what the material is predicted to endure if it were a conventional superconductor.

22 Jul 2021

New Framework Improves the Accuracy of Interatomic Potentials in Materials Design

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new framework using machine learning that improves the accuracy of interatomic potentials -- the guiding rules describing how atoms interact -- in new materials design.

22 Jul 2021

Printing Technologies for Scaling-Up Perovskite Solar Cells

To reach the target of carbon neutral, a transition from fossil energy to renewable energy generation is indispensable. Photovoltaic technology is considered as one of the most prominent sources of renewable energy.

22 Jul 2021

Chemists Develop a Thiol-Free Technique for Synthesis of Aryl Sulfides

Aryl sulfide, an aromatic compound in which sulfur is attached to an aryl (a functional group derived from an aromatic ring), is found in biologically active materials effective against asthma, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer.

22 Jul 2021

Researchers Create Novel Self-Healing Materials for Space Structures

Certain materials employed in aerospace applications like polymers can erode and degrade upon prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation, atomic oxygen, and extreme temperature cycling found in outer space.

22 Jul 2021

Plasma-Therm ‘RANKED 1st’ in VLSI 2021 Survey for Etch & Clean Equipment – Marking 10 Consecutive Years

Plasma-Therm is honored to have once again been named the top supplier of etch and clean equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, according to the results of the 2021 VLSIresearch Customer Satisfaction Survey of worldwide semiconductor industry customers.

From Plasma-Therm 22 Jul 2021

Xometry Launches Instant Quoting for Binder Jet 3D Printing Metals

Xometry, Inc., a leading AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, announced today the availability of instant quoting on metal binder jetting, a popular metal 3D printing process, in its Instant Quoting Engine.

From Xometry 22 Jul 2021