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JEOL CANADA Names SOQUELEC as Microscopy Sales Representative in Canada

JEOL, the leading supplier of electron microscopes in North and South America, begins a new partnership on April 1st, 2021 with SOQUELEC LTD., a Montreal, Quebec company with more than 40 years of experience specializing in sales of scientific instruments.

From JEOL USA, Inc. 2 Apr 2021

Researchers Demonstrate Superconducting Materials at Room Temperatures

University of Rochester researchers who demonstrated superconducting materials at room temperatures last fall, now report a new technique in the quest to also create the materials at lower pressures.

1 Apr 2021

Scientists Identify Elusive Spin Dynamics in Quantum Mechanical System

Using complementary computing calculations and neutron scattering techniques, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories and the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the existence of an elusive type of spin dynamics in a quantum mechanical system.

1 Apr 2021

Study may Help Create Pressure Sensors Based on Silicene, Other 2D Materials

Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) have developed a method for modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure. The research will help create pressure sensors based on silicene or other 2D materials. The paper was published in the ACS Nano journal.

1 Apr 2021

Hexagonal Form of Diamond is Stronger than Natural Diamonds

Nature's strongest material now has some stiff competition. For the first time, researchers have hard evidence that human-made hexagonal diamonds are stiffer than the common cubic diamonds found in nature and often used in jewelry.

1 Apr 2021

Tantalum Nitride has Optimal Thermal Conductivity

A thermos bottle has the task of preserving the temperature - but sometimes you want to achieve the opposite: Computer chips generate heat that must be dissipated as quickly as possible so that the chip is not destroyed. This requires special materials with particularly good heat conduction properties.

1 Apr 2021

New Phenomenon may Help Tune Superalloys that Withstand Very High Temperatures

Superalloys that withstand extremely high temperatures could soon be tuned even more finely for specific properties such as mechanical strength, as a result of new findings published today.

1 Apr 2021

New Method Helps Grow Magnetic Thin-Film Material that Hosts Skyrmions

Skyrmions - tiny magnetic vortices - are considered promising candidates for tomorrow's information memory devices which may be able to achieve enormous data storage and processing capacities. A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed a method to grow a particular magnetic thin-film material that hosts these magnetic vortices.

1 Apr 2021

ABB and Amazon Web Services Steer Fleets To An All-Electric Future

ABB and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, has announced a collaboration to jointly develop a cloud-based digital solution for the real-time fleet management of electric vehicles (EVs).

From ABB Power Conditioning – Electrification Products Division 1 Apr 2021

Specialty Coating Systems Acquires Diamond-MT

Specialty Coating Systems, Inc. (SCS), a global leader in Parylene conformal coating services and technology, has announced its acquisition of Diamond-MT, Inc., a provider of Parylene and liquid conformal coating services.

1 Apr 2021

New Assessment Could Help Find Carbon Footprint of Electric Car Battery Recycling

By 2030, 30 million electric cars will run throughout the European Union (EU), and the European Commission has been making hard targets for recycling these and other batteries.

1 Apr 2021

ABB launches world’s fastest, most sensitive drone-based gas leak detection and greenhouse gas measuring system

HoverGuard™ will transform safety and environmental measurement capabilities for operators of millions of kilometers of pipelines traversing the globe. Pipelines often cross inaccessible terrain to supply indust...

From ABB Measurement & Analytics 1 Apr 2021

A Skoltech Method Helps Model the Behavior of 2D Materials Under Pressure

1 Apr 2021

Malvern Panalytical Launches Smart Manager™, a Cloud Based ‘Control Room’ for Zetium and Axios-mAX XRF Systems

1 April 2021, Almelo, the Netherlands. Today we introduce Smart Manager, one of the new Smart Solutions in the Connected World, a cloud based ‘control room’ that connects and monitors all of your Zetium and Axios-mAX XRF systems. It will give you a clear picture of both the real-time utilization and health of your instruments, wherever they are in the world.

From Malvern Panalytical 1 Apr 2021

The World's Longest 3D Printed Bridge is Breaking the Building Mold

Construction of the world's longest 3D printed pedestrian concrete bridge is underway in the Netherlands. The project points to a bright future for the unification between building and 3D printing.

By Robert Lea 31 Mar 2021