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CRAIC Technologies Establishes New Microspectroscopy Applications and Demonstration Laboratory Complete With Broadband Web Conferencing

RAIC Technologies announces the opening of MicroLab/Songdo, its new applications and demonstration laboratory featuring CRAIC's microspectrophotometers. Located in South Korea, MicroLab/Songdo features a complete web conferencing studio and high speed internet for demonstrations, applications research and customer training anywhere in the world.

From CRAIC Technologies 10 May 2021

MIT Professional Education Offers New Professional Certificate Program in Industry 4.0

MIT Professional Education has launched a new Professional Certificate Program in Industry 4.0.

10 May 2021

New Strategy to Convert Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas into Industrially Valuable Material

Plants are unparalleled in their ability to capture CO2 from the air, but this benefit is temporary, as leftover crops release carbon back into the atmosphere, mostly through decomposition.

7 May 2021

Carbon-Based Materials Have Special Stretching Properties

Like most materials, an elastic band gets thinner when it is stretched. But some materials behave in the opposite way -- they grow thicker when stretched and thinner when compressed.

7 May 2021

Controlled Magneto-Mechanical Processes may Lead to New Generation of Artificial Muscles

"The overarching idea of this research project is to influence different biological processes at the cellular level by developing timely engineering applications", explains 4D-BIOMAP's lead researcher, Daniel García González from the UC3M's Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis.

7 May 2021

New Hybrid Crystal Helps Create Tailored Materials with Innovative Properties

They are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair, and just a few atoms thick: two-dimensional materials are the thinnest substances it is possible to make today.

7 May 2021

Study Makes Significant Progress in the Development of Lithium-Air Battery

Research led by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with Johnson Matthey PLC and Loughborough University is making significant progress in the development of stable and practical electrolytes for lithium-oxygen batteries.

7 May 2021

Study Advances Stable and Practical Electrolytes for Li-O2 Batteries

Under the guidance of the University of Liverpool, a study performed in collaboration with Johnson Matthey PLC and Loughborough University has been making considerable advances in the development of practical and stable electrolytes for lithium-oxygen batteries.

7 May 2021

Two-Luminogen Hydrogel Chemosensor Detects Seafood Freshness by Changing Color

A team of researchers from Germany and China has developed a novel artificial color-changing material that imitates the skin of a chameleon, through luminogens (molecules that cause crystals to glow) arranged into different core and shell layers of hydrogels rather than a single uniform matrix.

7 May 2021

Navitar Releases Coaxial Illuminator and Controller for Resolv4K® Wide Angle FOV Zoom and Fixed Imaging Lens System

Navitar, a global provider of integrated lens and camera machine vision solutions, announced the release of their new Resolv4K® coaxial illuminator, designed to be used with the Resolv4K zoom and fixed lens systems for improved, even illumination across a wide field of view.

From Navitar Inc. 7 May 2021

New High-Tech Textile for Outdoor Personal Thermal Management

Clothing, from tank tops to parkas, helps people adapt to temperatures outdoors. But you can only put on or take off so much of it, and fluctuations in weather can render what you are wearing entirely inadequate.

6 May 2021

Hyaluronic Acid's Complex Chemistry and Ever-Expanding Uses

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is more than a buzzword ingredient touted by skincare brands. The "workhorse" capabilities of this biopolymer, which is present in most mammalian tissues, have fascinated scientists for decades.

6 May 2021

Using Silk Proteins to Create Leather-Like Material

Leather is an ever growing multi-billion dollar industry requiring more than 3.8 billion bovine animals - equal to one for every two people on earth - to sustain production each year.

6 May 2021

Novel Magnetic Material Demonstrates Fastest Switching Ever Recorded

Researchers at CRANN, and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, today announced that a magnetic material developed at the Centre demonstrates the fastest magnetic switching ever recorded.

6 May 2021

New 3D Bioprinting Technique Directs Cell Orientation at Individual Cell Level

3D bioprinting has the ability to make engineered scaffolds that imitate natural tissue. Regulating the cellular organization inside those engineered scaffolds for regenerative applications is a complicated and tough process.

6 May 2021