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Stratasys to Offer SAF Technology for Production-Scale 3D Printing

Stratasys Ltd., a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, today shared the first details about its upcoming line of powder bed fusion-based 3D printers.

From Stratasys Ltd. 25 Mar 2021

FLIR Systems and Neurala Make Deep Learning Inspection for the Production Line More Accessible

To empower those with no AI expertise and to reduce the complexity and cost of implementing deep learning inspection on the production line, FLIR Systems has collaborated with Neurala to develop a fully supported software and hardware solution.

24 Mar 2021

Liquid Instruments Introduces Moku:Go

Liquid Instruments, an innovator in precision software-defined instrumentation, has launched Moku:Go, a complete, portable platform designed to bring the engineering lab anywhere and usher in a new era of scientific and engineering education at universities around the world.

From Liquid Instruments 24 Mar 2021

Scientists Observe Helical Magnetic Ordering in a Topological Compound

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have observed novel helical magnetic ordering in the topological compound EuIn2As2 which supports exotic electrical conduction tunable by a magnetic field. The discovery has significant implications for basic research into functional topological properties and may one day find use in a number of advanced technology applications.

24 Mar 2021

Tiny Rotations of 2D Layers can Significantly Change the Material Properties

The discovery of the material graphene, which consists of only one layer of carbon atoms, was the starting signal for a global race: Today, so-called "2D materials" are produced, made of different types of atoms. Atomically thin layers that often have very special material properties not found in conventional, thicker materials.

24 Mar 2021

New Chemical Compound may be Used to Develop Cheaper, Safer Near-Infrared Semiconductors

NIMS and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have jointly discovered that the chemical compound Ca3SiO is a direct transition semiconductor, making it a potentially promising infrared LED and infrared detector component.

24 Mar 2021

Developing High-Performance LEDs from Quasi-2D Perovskite Materials

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are changing the lighting and display industry and have obtained significant advances than traditional lighting sources. The traditional materials LEDs, e.g., III-V semiconductor LEDs, organic LEDs (OLEDs) and quantum-dot LEDs (QLEDs), have achieved great success and gradually realized commercialization, but still face some challenges.

24 Mar 2021

Analysis Reveals a Dramatic Price Drop in Lithium-Ion Batteries

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen dramatically over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. But attempting to quantify that cost decline has produced ambiguous and conflicting results that have hampered attempts to project the technology's future or devise useful policies and research priorities.

24 Mar 2021

Exotic Metal-Insulator Transition in a Surface-Doped 2D Semiconductor

Metal-insulator transition (MIT) driven by many-body interactions is an important phenomenon in condensed matter physics. Exotic phases always emerge around the metal-insulator transition points where quantum fluctuations arise from a competition among spin, charge, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom.

24 Mar 2021

Enhanced Ceramic Materials Could Play a Key Role in 5G Development

5G, or the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, is touted as having finally arrived for ultrafast download speeds, an end to dropped calls and buffering, and greater connectivity to advance autonomous vehicle development, remote surgery, and the Internet of Things.

24 Mar 2021

New Edible Food Packaging Films are Safe for Health and Environment

An international team of researchers from India and Russia has developed edible food films for packaging vegetables, fruits, seafood, meat, and poultry. The new films are made of natural ingredients and are safe for both the environment and health.

24 Mar 2021

Innovative Next-Generation Polymers to be Featured on First Day of ACS Spring 2021

Materials that interface with the human body, plastics to sequester carbon dioxide and other innovative and sustainable polymers will be explored in the opening session of the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS President H. N. Cheng, Ph.D., is co-sponsoring the April 5 session, which will set the stage for the meeting’s theme of “Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century.” ACS Spring 2021 will be held online April 5-30, with live oral technical presentations hosted April 5-16 and on-demand and networking content continuing through April 30.

24 Mar 2021

New Structural Battery Enables “Massless” Energy Storage

A new structural battery created by scientists from the Chalmers University of Technology can perform 10 times better than all the earlier prototypes.

23 Mar 2021

Research Breakthrough Paves the Way for 'Massless' Energy Storage In Vehicles

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fibre that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Their latest research breakthrough paves the way for essentially 'massless' energy storage in vehicles and other technology.

23 Mar 2021

Sealing Fistulas More Effectively with Water-Immiscible Bioadhesive

A Korean research team has recently developed an innovative vesico-vaginal fistula treatment method using the mussel adhesive protein (MAP) that can effectively seal fistulas in organs even when exposed to urine.

23 Mar 2021