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Huhtamaki Launches Push Tab® Paper, an Industry-First Sustainable Renewable Paper-Based Blister Solution

Huhtamaki, a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions and Syntegon, the German processing and packaging technology provider, today announce a breakthrough innovation for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

From Huhtamäki Oyj 29 Jul 2021

One-Sided Nanotexturing Increases Efficiency in Solar Cells

Researchers have used simulation and experiments to illustrate that introducing a small nanoscale texturing on the surface of materials in perovskite or silicon tandem solar cells can remarkably raise the efficiency by decreasing the amount of light energy lost by reflection.

28 Jul 2021

Plastics Derived from Pine Sap Could Help Develop Sustainable Materials

In the last 10 decades, plastics and polymers have altered the way the globe functions, right from airplanes and automobiles to computers and mobile phones, almost everything is composed of fossil fuel-based compounds.

28 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop New Highly Stable Catalyst for Propylene Production

The addition of calcium and lead to an industrial catalyst significantly improves its potential to promote the production of propylene at extreme temperatures, which makes it firm and active for around a month.

28 Jul 2021

Bettersize Instruments Opens New Regional Laboratory in Russia

As the leading manufacturer of analytical instruments, Bettersize Instruments has announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art regional laboratory in Hephaestus, Moscow.

From Bettersize Instruments 28 Jul 2021

Picosun Delivers ALD technology to ams OSRAM

ESPOO, Finland, 28th of July 2021 – Picosun Group delivers cutting-edge Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology to ams OSRAM for volume manufacturing of optical semiconductor devices.

From Picosun Oy 28 Jul 2021

Nexa3D Launch xMODEL 2505 Material for Dental Prosthetics Powered by BASF Forward AM

Nexa3D, the maker of ultrafast polymer 3D printers, today announced the immediate commercial availability of xMODEL 2505 dental material powered by BASF Forward AM.

From BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH 28 Jul 2021

New Feasible Method for Guarding Carbon Fiber Against Oxidation

Around five decades, manufacturers believed carbon fiber to be a dream material. Individual fibers are thinner than a strand of human hair, but they can be twisted together and fused with a matrix material to form a lightweight composite harder than steel, twice as stiff, and exhibit good heat conductivity.

27 Jul 2021

Research Describes a New Type of Liquid in Thin-Film Glass

Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a new type of liquid in thin films, which forms a high-density glass.

27 Jul 2021

Innovate Ultrafine Wires Launched by Goodfellow

Leading materials supplier, Goodfellow, has announced the launch of a worldwide exclusive range of ultrafine wires, including microwires of Copper, Nickel, Platinum and more.

From Goodfellow 27 Jul 2021

Metso Outotec Launches Thickening and Clarifying Solutions to Enable Clear Performance Improvements and Sustainable Profits

Metso Outotec is introducing a comprehensive portfolio of thickening and clarifying solutions to achieve new levels of operational reliability and performance in minerals and metals processing.

From Metso 27 Jul 2021

KNAUER Donates 15,000 Euros for the Victims of Germany’s Flood Disaster

The manufacturer of high-tech laboratory instruments, KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, has committed to helping the victims of the West Germany’s recent flooding disaster with a donation of €15,000.

From KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH 27 Jul 2021

Porvair Increase Porous Plastics Manufacturing Capacity

Porvair Sciences reports on the installation of new automated precision die-cutting equipment that has enabled a five-fold increase in its production capacity for porous plastic components.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 26 Jul 2021

Dynamic Control of THz Waves by Rotating Layers of Cascaded Metasurfaces

Electromagnetic waves in the terahertz regime contribute to important applications in communications, security imaging, and bio- and chemical sensing. Such wide applicability has resulted in significant technological progress.

26 Jul 2021

Novel Solid Electrolyte Material to Produce Cheaper and Effective Li Batteries

Scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed a novel material to manufacture affordable and effective all-solid-state Li ba...

26 Jul 2021