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New Dual-Mode Heating and Cooling Device for Energy Saving in Buildings

Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a dual-mode heating and cooling device for building climate control that, if widely deployed in the U.S., could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20 percent.

3 Dec 2020

KIT and Audi Launch Pilot Project for Chemical Recycling of Automotive Plastics

A large number of components in automobiles are made from plastics. They have to meet high safety, heat resistance, and quality requirements.

3 Dec 2020

Self-Healing Gelatin-Based Film Could be Used in Smart Electronics

Dropping a cell phone can sometimes cause superficial cracks to appear. But other times, the device can stop working altogether because fractures develop in the material that stores data.

3 Dec 2020

New Electrode Structure can Boost Energy Density of All-Solid-State Secondary Batteries

Scientists in South Korea have recently designed a new kind of electrode structure specifically for all-solid-state secondary batteries.

3 Dec 2020

Scientists Reveal a New, Natural Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Photonic Crystal

Nonlinear photonic crystals (NPCs) are transparent materials that have a spatially uniform linear susceptibility, yet a periodically modulated quadratic nonlinear susceptibility.

3 Dec 2020

Research Expands the List of Molecules that can be Used as Temporary Adhesives

Temporary glues may not steal headlines, but they can make everyday life easier.

3 Dec 2020

Using Powder Testing to Optimise the Processing Characteristics of Amorphous Solid Dispersions

Freeman Technology is pleased to announce the release of a new application note “Using Powder Testing to Optimise the Processing Characteristics of Amorphous Solid Dispersions”. The use of amorphous solid ...

From Freeman Technology 3 Dec 2020

New MOF-Based Material can Harness and Store Solar Energy for a Long Time

The shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy to mitigate climate change has made the requirement for novel techniques to harness and store energy highly crucial.

3 Dec 2020

New Microscope Technique Reveals Details of Droplet Nucleation

Nucleation is a ubiquitous phenomenon that governs the formation of both droplets and bubbles in systems used for condensation, desalination, water splitting, crystal growth, and many other important industrial processes. Now, for the first time, a new microscopy technique developed at MIT and elsewhere allows the process to be observed directly in detail, which could facilitate the design of improved, more efficient surfaces for a variety of such processes.

3 Dec 2020

PICOSUN® Sprinter Disrupts Fast Batch ALD on 300 mm Wafers

PICOSUN® Sprinter disrupts fast batch ALD on 300 mm wafers

From Picosun Oy 2 Dec 2020

Exploring How Advanced Materials can Contribute to More Sustainable Construction

Innovation in advanced materials offers the disruptive potential to transform the way we build our future cities - and make them greener and smarter.

2 Dec 2020

New Method Creates 3D Models of Fibers, Uses it to Predict Thermal Conductivity

As a vehicle travels through space at hypersonic speeds, the gases surrounding it generate heat at dangerous temperatures for the pilot and instrumentation inside.

2 Dec 2020

Ulbrich Unveils New High-Tech Rolling Mill

Ulbrich is pleased to announce the unveiling of one of the world’s most advanced 20 High Rolling Mill at our Wallingford, CT location, where we cold-roll precision strip and foil for over 160 alloys of stainless steel, nickel, titanium, and other special metals.

From Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. 2 Dec 2020

Kingsbury to Sell New Additive Manufacturing Machine Range

SLM Solutions Group AG, a German manufacturer of powder bed metal additive manufacturing (AM) machines, has appointed Kingsbury, Gosport, to sell its products and services in the British and Irish markets with effect from 1st December 2020.

From SLM Solutions Group AG 1 Dec 2020

Rigaku Analytical Devices to Participate in Virtual CBRNe Convergence Event

Rigaku Analytical Devices, the pioneer in handheld 1064nm Raman laser technology, will showcase its portfolio of handheld Raman analyzers during the CBRNe Convergence 2020 Bitesize Boston Event being held December 1-4, 2020.

From Rigaku Corporation 1 Dec 2020