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Application Optimised Flow Meters

Titan Enterprises is a respected international supplier of applications optimised flow meters designed and manufactured under Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement.

From Titan Enterprises Ltd. 3 Aug 2020

Element and FRISA Strengthen Relationship with Long Term Agreement Scope Expansion

Element Materials Technology has been awarded an expansion to the scope of its existing ten-year long term agreement with FRISA to include all three of FRISA’s major business units: Aerospace, Force VG, Forge SC, and Precision.

From Element Materials Technology 3 Aug 2020

New Material Exhibits Largest-Ever Anomalous Hall Effects

The fields of condensed matter physics and material science are intimately linked because new physics is often discovered in materials with special arrangements of atoms.

3 Aug 2020

New 3D Printing Method Could Help Create Durable Prosthetics, Medical Devices

More durable prosthetics and medical devices for patients and stronger parts for airplanes and automobiles are just some of the products that could be created through a new 3D printing technology invented by a UMass Lowell researcher.

3 Aug 2020

Researchers Electrically Transform Iron Sulfide into Magnetic Material

In a breakthrough new study, scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota have electrically transformed the abundant and low-cost non-magnetic material iron sulfide, also known as "fool's gold" or pyrite, into a magnetic material.

31 Jul 2020

New Copper-Catalyzed Strategy for Asymmetric Trifluoromethylation of Cyclopropanols

Scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed the first copper-catalyzed enantioselective trifluoromethylation of benzylic radicals via a copper-catalyzed radical relay strategy.

31 Jul 2020

Novel Method for Assembling Nanomaterials as Desired

Whether in innovative high-tech materials, more powerful computer chips, pharmaceuticals or in the field of renewable energies, nanoparticles - smallest portions of bulk material - form the basis for a whole range of new technological developments.

31 Jul 2020

Researchers Significantly Improve Process that Leads to Polymers, Plasticizers

Every year, the chemical industry makes trillions of dollars synthesizing the countless chemical compounds we use every day.

31 Jul 2020

Diamond-Based Qubits, Quantum Photonics Help Develop Largest Quantum Chip

An Army-funded project marks a turning point in the field of scalable quantum processors, producing the largest quantum chip of its type using diamond-based qubits and quantum photonics.

31 Jul 2020

Interlayer Coupling in Van Der Waals Material can be Modulated Using Protonic Gate

A Chinese-Australian collaboration has demonstrated for the first time that interlayer coupling in a van der Waals material can be largely modulated by a protonic gate, which inject protons to devices from an ionic solid.

31 Jul 2020

Study Finds Common Chemical Reactions Accelerate Brownian Diffusion

Steve Granick, Director of the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter and Dr. Huan Wang, Senior Research Fellow, report together with 5 interdisciplinary colleagues in the July 31 issue of the journal Science that common chemical reactions accelerate Brownian diffusion by sending long-range ripples into the surrounding solvent.

31 Jul 2020

New Technological Advances Could Make Wind Energy Viable

Florida is one of several states in the Southeast where wind energy is virtually nonexistent, which is one reason wind farms have not been an economically viable energy source in the region.

31 Jul 2020

A Ray of Sunshine for British Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic

International manufacturing and engineering company TRB Lightweight Structures is one such company that has continued operating in Peterborough and Huntingdon, as well as in its US facility in Kentucky, and has maintained production and supply for its customers – including Hitachi Rail, CAF and Elekta – despite some of its own suppliers closing.

From TRB Lightweight Structures Ltd 30 Jul 2020

Researchers Solve Representative Model of Cuprate Superconductivity Problem

Forty-five years after superconductivity was first discovered in metals, the physics giving rise to it was finally explained in 1957 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity.

30 Jul 2020

Electrochemical Doping Enhances Properties of Transparent Conductors

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Aalto University have discovered that electrochemical doping with ionic liquid can significantly enhance the optical and electrical properties of transparent conductors made of single-walled carbon nanotube films.

30 Jul 2020