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Insights into Bacteria's Metabolism Could Lead to Efficient Production of Biofuels

A new study reveals how bacteria control the chemicals produced from consuming 'food.' The insight could lead to organisms that are more efficient at converting plants into biofuels.

4 Dec 2020

Graphene-Enhanced Heat Pipes can Efficiently Cool Power Electronics

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have found that graphene-based heat pipes can help solve the problems of cooling electronics and power systems used in avionics, data centres, and other power electronics.

4 Dec 2020

Study Discovers Why a Perfect Crystal is not Good at Conducting Heat

Barium titanium sulfide (BaTiS3), a crystalline solid, is a poor conductor of heat. It has now been found that the occurrence of a wayward titanium atom simultaneously in two positions is responsible for this phenomenon.

4 Dec 2020

Efficiently Inspect Complex Piping Systems with the Olympus IPLEX™ GAir Long Videoscope

Enabling fast, easy and accurate long-distance inspections, the IPLEX™ GAir long videoscope solution combines maneuverability with high-quality, wide-view images to make complex pipe inspections fast and efficient.

From Evident - NDT 3 Dec 2020

Smart Evaporator Assists Medicinal Chemistry

From BioChromato Inc. 3 Dec 2020

Picosun Launches PicoOS™, a Unified Control Software for PICOSUN® ALD Modules and Clusters

Picosun Group, leading provider of AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for industrial manufacturing, presents PicoOS™, the new, full stack operating system and process control software for PICOSUN® ALD equipment.

From Picosun Oy 3 Dec 2020

A New Breakthrough in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethylene

In recent times, "electrochemical conversion (e-chemical)" technology-which converts carbon dioxide to high-value-added compounds using renewable electricity-has gained research attention as a carbon capture utilization (CCU) technology.

3 Dec 2020

Study Describes a New Type of Amorphous Solid Bodies

Many substances with different chemical and physical properties, from diamonds to graphite, are made up of carbon atoms. Amorphous forms of solid carbon do not have a fixed crystal structure and consist of structural units--nanosized graphene particles.

3 Dec 2020

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

Gain insights into optimizing amorphous solid dispersions through powder testing, improving flow properties and compressibility for better drug processing.

From Malvern Panalytical 3 Dec 2020