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Affordable Raman Engine for High Volume OEM Customers with Unmatched Detection Limit

HORIBA Scientific, a global leader in OEM Gratings, Miniature spectrometers, and Scientific Camera systems and solutions, just announced its new CiCi-Raman engine designed for high volume OEM industrial customers.

From HORIBA 1 Dec 2020

New Electrolysis System Could Extract Oxygen, Fuel from Martian Salty Water

With regard to water and Mars, it is a mixture of good news and not-so-good news. The good news is that there is water on Mars and the not-so-good news is that it is salty.

1 Dec 2020

New Cross-Coupling Reaction Could Help Make Chemical Industry More Sustainable

Human life has been transformed by plastics, pharmaceuticals, and several other chemical products. To make such products, chemists frequently make use of a catalyst—often based on rare metals—at different points in their syntheses.

1 Dec 2020

Novel Microorganism can Produce Biodiesel Precursors from Discarded Cardboard Boxes

Automobile exhaust emitted by fossil-fuel-based vehicles, especially those operating on diesel, is known to be a major source of fine dust and greenhouse gases.

1 Dec 2020

New Approach to Produce Sustainable Regenerated Isotropic Wood

Since plastic was invented in the late 19th century, it was beginning to change human lives. The invention of plastic gives us a lightweight, strong and inexpensive material, which greatly facilitated daily life.

1 Dec 2020

TU Graz Researchers Look for Ways to Embed Passive Electronic Components in Three Dimensions

In smartphones and many other complex, wirelessly networked devices, sophisticated technologies are used to integrate the individual electronic components into the housing. While active components, such as semiconductors, are already well investigated, passive electronic elements such as antennas or filters are lagging behind.

1 Dec 2020

New System Enables the Design and Control of Complex Mixtures with Multiple Phases

While the mesmerizing blobs in a classic lava lamp may appear magical, the colorful shapes move in response to temperature-induced changes in density and surface tension.

1 Dec 2020

Flexible Molecular Sieves for Gas Separation

Researchers at the University of Liverpool and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have made reported some exciting findings relating to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of porous materials, which could benefit a wide range of important gas separation processes. The findings are reported in two research papers.

1 Dec 2020

N-Heterocyclic Phosphines: New Group of Promising Catalysts for Metal-Free Reductions

Hydride transfer is a prevailing protocol for reduction of unsaturated compounds, which is traditionally accomplished under the catalysis of transition-metals, particularly those of noble metals.

1 Dec 2020

Scientists Create a Shapeshifting Material Using Inorganic Materials

By embedding titanium-based sheets in water, a group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science has created a material using inorganic materials that can be converted from a hard gel to soft matter using temperature changes.

1 Dec 2020

Researchers Report a Breakthrough in the Development of Magnesium Batteries

Magnesium batteries have long been considered a potentially safer and less expensive alternative to lithium-ion batteries, but previous versions have been severely limited in the power they delivered.

1 Dec 2020

DSM, SABIC, Cepsa, Fibrant, and Viscofan Co-develop Novel Meat Packaging Material Made from Mixed Post-consumer Plastics

Driven by a shared vision of sustainability and strong collaboration, DSM, SABIC, Cepsa, Fibrant, and Viscofan have together created a multi-barrier casing for meat products made via advanced recycling of post-consumer plastics.

From Royal DSM 1 Dec 2020

ColdBlock and Nucomat Partner to Automate Mineral Sampling Prep Process

Two technology companies that take laboratory efficiency and workplace safety to a new level have pooled their expertise to help automate one of the more labour intensive and risky elements involved in the mineral sampling process.

From ColdBlock Technologies Inc 30 Nov 2020

Researchers Observe Conversion of Heavy Water into Light Water Using X-Rays

Water is vital to the development and continuation of life, as well as indispensable to life on Earth. However, it is still cloaked in mystery.

30 Nov 2020

Game-Changer in Thermoelectric Materials: Decoupling Electronic and Thermal Transport

A new University of Wollongong study overcomes a major challenge of thermoelectric materials, which can convert heat into electricity and vice versa, improving conversion efficiency by more than 60%.

30 Nov 2020