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New Consortium Uses AI and Robotics to Accelerate Discovery of Advanced Materials

The Acceleration Consortium, a new global collaboration between academia, industry and government, based at the University of Toronto (U of T), will use artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to accelerate the design and discovery of materials that don't yet exist.

22 Apr 2021

Creaform Expands with New Center in Texas

Houston, Texas, April 21, 2021 — Creaform, a worldwide leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, announced the opening of a new office and innovation center in Texas ...

From Creaform Inc. 22 Apr 2021

Researchers Observe Ad- and Desorption of Guest Atoms into a Mesoporous Host

Most battery materials, novel catalysts, and storage materials for hydrogen have one thing in common: they have a structure comprised of tiny pores in the nanometer range.

22 Apr 2021

Unique Fingerprint to Reduce Illicit Use of 3D Printers

3D printing is transforming everything from fashion and health care to transportation and toys. But this rapidly evolving technology, also known as additive manufacturing, can threaten national security and intellectual property rights.

22 Apr 2021

Researchers Unravel the Mystery of How Many Bubbles are in a Glass of Beer

After pouring beer into a glass, streams of little bubbles appear and start to rise, forming a foamy head. As the bubbles burst, the released carbon dioxide gas imparts the beverage's desirable tang.

22 Apr 2021

Fluorescent Polymer Used to Illuminate Invisible Bloody Fingerprints

Careful criminals usually clean a scene, wiping away visible blood and fingerprints. However, prints made with trace amounts of blood, invisible to the naked eye, could remain.

22 Apr 2021

Researchers Construct Isolated Active Sites In Porous Single-Crystalline Structures

Porous single-crystal monolithic catalytic materials offer the benefits of a clear lattice structure, long-range ordered lattice structure, precise chemical composition, disorderly interconnected pore structure, and clear surface composition.

22 Apr 2021

Fast Mitigation of Power Grids Instability Risks

Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Arizona and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an approach that allows power grids to return to stability fast after demand response perturbation.

22 Apr 2021

NuNano Installs and Automates TESCAN FESEM for High-Precision Quality Control

NuNano Ltd. and TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING a.s. announce the successful installation of a TESCAN Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) at NuNano’s Bristol facility, where it will be used for 100-percent automated quality control on atomic force microscope (AFM) probes with some of the tightest dimensional tolerances available today.

From Tescan Group 22 Apr 2021

Study Determines Charge Buildup and Dynamics in Resonant-Tunneling Diodes

Diodes are widely used electronic devices that act as one-way switches for current. A well-known example is the LED (light-emitting diode), but there is a special class of diodes designed to make use of the phenomenon known as "quantum tunneling".

21 Apr 2021

Integrating Photonic Components with Superconducting Electronics to Enhance AI Capabilities

As artificial intelligence has attracted broad interest, researchers are focused on understanding how the brain accomplishes cognition so they can construct artificial systems with general intelligence comparable to humans' intelligence.

21 Apr 2021

New Hybrid Material may Soon Lead to Advanced Fuel Cell Technology

When it comes to fuel cell technology, protons are considered the next big thing. The subatomic exchange generates significant power that challenges modern solid-state fuel cell technology that is currently used to fuel space shuttles.

21 Apr 2021

Pfeiffer Vacuum Presents Extension to DigiLine Series: Total Pressure Vacuum Gauges with Digital Signal Outlet

For more than 20 years now, Pfeiffer Vacuum’s portfolio has included its comprehensive DigiLine range of digital total vacuum pressure gauges, which can be modularly adapted to suit any industrial vacuum applicatio...

From Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH 21 Apr 2021

New Advances in Materials Science are Key to Developing Hardware for Quantum Computing

A new study outlines the need for materials advances in the hardware that goes into making quantum computers if these futuristic devices are to surpass the abilities of the computers we use today.

20 Apr 2021