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Melt Flow Testing Supports the Fight Against Covid-19

ZwickRoell is proud to support the production of PPE through easy-to-use and reliable testing instruments. Currently, ZwickRoell Mflows are being used to qualify material to be used as personal protective equipment.

9 Sep 2020

Researchers Discover What Makes Vanadium Dioxide Films Conduct Electricity

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the RAS Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics have discovered what makes vanadium dioxide films conduct electricity.

9 Sep 2020

New Minuscule Instrument to Detect Extremely Faint Magnetic Fields

Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields.

9 Sep 2020

Study Provides New Insight into Behavior of Rotating Superfluids

An Australian-led study has provided new insight into the behaviour of rotating superfluids.

9 Sep 2020

A New Method to Predict Rate Constants of Reverse Intersystem Crossing for Organic Semiconductors

The joint research team of RIKEN and Hokkaido University developed a method to predict rate constants of reverse intersystem crossing associated with light emission efficiency of organic semiconductors used for Organic Light-Emitting Diode through quantum chemical calculations with computers.

9 Sep 2020

Using Brain-Like Electronic Devices to Produce Technicolor

Structural coloration is promised to be the display technology of the future as there is no fading - it does not use dyes - and enables low-power displays without strong external light source.

9 Sep 2020

Fungi-Based Leather Could be Eco-Friendlier than Animal and Plastic Versions

In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in Australia, researchers argue that leather made from fungi has "considerable potential" to be the best leather substitute in terms of sustainability and cost when compared to animal and plastic-derived version.

9 Sep 2020

Scientists Develop New Method of Silicon Recycling

Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed a new method of silicon recycling.

9 Sep 2020

New Project to Develop Intelligent, Sustainable Plastics

Sustainable plastics that have the ability for self-healing, have intelligent properties and can be recycled if required will be the subject of future research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

9 Sep 2020

Nanophotonics Enables Tunable Excitation of Spin Waves

Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov State University and Michigan Technological University, have demonstrated new methods for controlling spin waves in nanostructured bismuth iron garnet films via short laser pulses.

9 Sep 2020

Surfaces Containing Ledges can Act as Reusable Templates for Nanoelectronic Components

Semiconductor manufacturers are paying more attention to two-dimensional materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, following the discovery, at KAUST, of an epitaxial growth process of single-crystal TMDs nanoribbons.

9 Sep 2020

$2 Million Funding for Research into Liquid Fuel Strategy

Rice University engineer Haotian Wang has been awarded a four-year, $2 million collaborative grant by the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program of the National Science Foundation to explore how waste carbon dioxide, the bane of Earth's atmosphere, can be directly converted into pure liquid fuels.

9 Sep 2020

Electricity Generated by Temperature Differences Is Not Affected by Grain Boundaries

Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there's at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold.

9 Sep 2020

New Technology can Accurately Detect Chemical Weapons at Low Concentration Levels

Chemical weapons pose a serious threat to civilian and warfighter lives, but technology from the U.S. Army Small Business Technology Transfer program reduces those risks.

9 Sep 2020

Research Identifies Key Process that Might Have Led to First Organic Molecules

New research led by the American Museum of Natural History and funded by NASA identifies a process that might have been key in producing the first organic molecules on Earth about 4 billion years ago, before the origin of life.

9 Sep 2020