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Austin American Technology to Introduce New Era in Batch Cleaning During APEX Virtual EXPO

Austin American Technology (AAT) is pleased to announce plans to participate in the 2021 IPC APEX Virtual EXPO, scheduled to take place March 9-11, 2021 online at www.ipcapexexpo.org. For the first time in 2021, AAT plans to release the newest edition of the Aqua ROSE™ Batch Cleaner live from their new Virtual Demo Room.

From Austin American Technology 8 Feb 2021

3D Printing a New Type of Airway Stent

A new type of 3D printed airway stent could make treating upper airway obstructions quicker and safer.

By Robert Lea 8 Feb 2021

New Polymer Improves Durability of Silicon Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries

Silicon anodes are known to considerably increase the capacity of Li-ion batteries, but their performance degrades quickly with use. Although polymeric coatings could be a solution to this problem, only a handful of studies have analyzed the mechanisms at play.

8 Feb 2021

New Plastic Film Deactivates the Coronavirus in just 15 Minutes

A scientific collaboration including the companies Nanox, AplFilm, Braskem and the UFSCar (Brazil) and Jaume I of Castellón (Spain) universities has launched a plastic film with the potential to deactivate 99.99% of the novel coronavirus in just 15 minutes.

8 Feb 2021

New Flexible Crystal may Lead to More Efficient Bendable Electronics

Headed by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), a research team has designed a novel material that can flex and bend 40 times more than its competitors when an electric current is applied on it, paving the way to more improved micro machines.

8 Feb 2021

Operando Surface Science Method Reveals Surface Effect of Working Electrodes

Surface and interface play critical roles in energy storage devices, thus calling for in-situ/operando methods to probe the electrified surface/interface. However, the commonly used in-situ/operando characterization techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray spectroscopy and topography, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are based on the structural, electronic and chemical information in bulk region of the electrodes or electrolytes.

5 Feb 2021

Study Reveals Peculiar Surface Structure in Materials Resembling Quasicrystals

Between chemistry classes, gemstones, and electronics, the idea of crystals, substances with an ordered and periodic arrangement of atoms is quite common. But about 40 years ago, a strange particle was discovered by scientists that hasn't become commonplace in our world yet: quasicrystals.

5 Feb 2021

New Methodology can Lead to Mechanistic Understanding of Chemical Reactions

Scientists globally aim to control chemical reactions--an ambitious goal that requires identifying the steps taken by initial reactants to arrive at the final products as the reaction takes place. While this dream remains to be realized, techniques for probing chemical reactions have become sufficiently advanced to render it possible.

5 Feb 2021

A Non-Noble Metal Catalyst Outperforms Conventional Alternatives

Many different catalysts that promote the conversion of glucose to sorbitol have been studied; however, most offer certain properties while requiring compromises on others. Now, researchers from Osaka University have reported a hydrotalcite-supported nickel phosphide nanoparticle catalyst (nano-Ni2P/HT) that ticks all the boxes. Their findings are published in Green Chemistry.

5 Feb 2021

Novel Carbon Catalysts Open the Door to a New Class of Materials

Catalysts are key materials in modern society, enabling selective conversion of raw materials into valuable products while reducing waste and saving energy. In case of industrially relevant oxidative dehydrogenation reactions, most known catalyst systems are based on transition metals such as Iron, Vanadium, Molybdenum or Silver.

5 Feb 2021

Fully Recyclable Plastics Created from a Natural Molecule

Plastics are among the most successful materials of modern times. However, they also create a huge waste problem. Scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai produced different polymers from lipoic acid, a natural molecule.

5 Feb 2021

FEFU Researchers Optimized Technology for High-Speed Synthesis of Optical Ceramics

Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) have advanced the technology of high-speed sintering for optical ceramics (Nd3+:YAG), i.e. active elements generating laser emission in the near-infrared wavelength range (1.06 µm) for cutting the edge microelectronics and medicine.

5 Feb 2021

Researchers Develop an Optical Coating Like No Other

For more than a century, optical coatings have been used to better reflect certain wavelengths of light from lenses and other devices or, conversely, to better transmit certain wavelengths through them. For example, the coatings on tinted eyeglasses reflect, or "block out," harmful blue light and ultraviolet rays.

5 Feb 2021

Polymers Made from Lipoic Acid Fully Depolymerize Under Mild Conditions

In this modern age, plastics are one of the most successful materials. But they also contribute to a huge problem of waste.

5 Feb 2021

HORIBA FRANCE Opens a New R&D and Production Site: HFR Lille

On January 4, 2021, HORIBA FRANCE SAS, the world leader in Raman spectroscopy, inaugurated its new site in Loos (Herein after HFR Lille), Hauts-de-France.

From HORIBA 5 Feb 2021