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Fisnar Launch New DC50 Digital Dispense Controller

Fisnar, leading manufacturer of precision fluid dispensing equipment, is pleased to announce the launch of its new DC50 Digital Dispense Controller.

From Fisnar Inc. 8 Jul 2020

Motif FoodWorks Collaborates with the University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Improve the Sensory Experience of Plant-based Foods

Motif FoodWorks, the ingredient innovation company making plant-based food better tasting and more nutritious, today announced partnerships with two leading universities in chemical and mechanical engineering—the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—to better understand and design the rheological properties of plant-based foods.

From Motif FoodWorks, Inc. 8 Jul 2020

New Electrochemical Oxidation Process Could Help Cleaning Complex Wastewater

A team of engineers may be one step closer to cleaning up heavily contaminated industrial wastewater streams.

8 Jul 2020

New On-Chip Plasmonic Nanograting Detects Phase, Polarization Singularities

Optical singularities are key elements in modern optics and have been widely researched.

8 Jul 2020

Study Unravels Reasons for Instability in Inorganic Perovskites

Researchers in the Cava Group at the Princeton University Department of Chemistry have demystified the reasons for instability in an inorganic perovskite that has attracted wide attention for its potential in creating highly efficient solar cells.

8 Jul 2020

Researchers Observe Changes to Electronic Properties of Topological Materials

In physics, they are currently the subject of intensive research; in electronics, they could enable completely new functions.

8 Jul 2020

New Low-Cost Reactive Adsorbent Efficiently Purifies Air from Toxic Compounds

The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists strive to find a way to purify it.

8 Jul 2020

Study Analyzes Use of Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration

Successful tissue regeneration can have major benefits in healing injuries or replacing portions of diseased or damaged tissue in bone, skin, the nervous system and in organs such as the muscle, kidney, liver, lung and heart.

8 Jul 2020

Novel Device Emits Photons from Quantum Dots to Power Communication Devices

Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have created an innovative new device that will emit single particles of light, or photons, from quantum dots that are the key to practical quantum computers, quantum communications, and other quantum devices.

8 Jul 2020

Study Achieves Well-Controlled Loading of Non-Noble Metal Ions in Quantum Dots

Very recently, Chinese researchers had achieved site- and spatial- selective integration of earth-abundant metal ions in semiconductor quantum dots for efficient and robust photocatalytic H2 evolution from water.

8 Jul 2020

New Active Photonic Power Transfer Method for Medical Implants

Over the past few decades, medical technology seen various advances in terms of the scope and efficiency of implant devices.

8 Jul 2020

Study Tests, Controls Magic-Angle Twisted Bi-Layer Graphene Devices

If you stack two layers of graphene one on top of the other, and rotate them at an angle of 1.1º from each other - the so-called magic-angle, experiments have proven that the material can behave like an insulator, where no electrical current can flow, and at the same time can also behave like a superconductor, where electrical currents can flow without resistance.

8 Jul 2020

New Thermoelectric Device Self-Cools Through Radiative Cooling

Sensors placed in the environment spend long periods of time outdoors through all weather conditions, and they must continuously power themselves in order to collect data.

8 Jul 2020

Microscopic Structures in Perovskites can Influence How Fast Electrons Move

Solar cells based on perovskite compounds could soon make electricity generation from sunlight even more efficient and cheaper.

8 Jul 2020

Fixed Effects Regression Used to Analyze Photovoltaic Performance Degradation

Utility-scale photovoltaics, ground-mounted projects larger than 5 megawatts of alternating current, are the largest sector of the overall solar market within the U.S. and the fastest-growing form of renewable power generation.

8 Jul 2020