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OPC UA Compliance Test Tool (UACTT) Extended for Companion Spec Validation

The OPC Foundation announces its increased efforts to ensure industrial interoperability not only for the OPC UA core functionalities, but now also for the Sematics specified with cooperation partners in OPC UA based Companion Specifications.

From OPC Foundation 25 Jun 2020

Olympus Supports Student Success at San Jacinto College with Ultrasonic Testing Equipment Donation

Olympus, a leading nondestructive testing manufacturer, donated ultrasonic testing equipment to San Jacinto College’s new LyondellBasell Center for Petrochemical, Energy, & Technology to support workforce development.

From Evident Corporation - NDT 24 Jun 2020

New eBook from Freeman Technology Addresses the Critical Issue of Powder Flow Testing for Additive Manufacturing

Freeman Technology, a Micromeritics company and the global leader in powder characterisation technology, has released a new eBook focusing on the application of powder flow testing in Additive Manufacturing (AM).

From Freeman Technology 24 Jun 2020

Rigaku to Present TOPIQ Webinar on Improving Crystal Structure Models by TAAM Refinement

Rigaku Corporation, a global leader in X-ray analytical instrumentation, is pleased to announce the next event in a series of TOPIQ webinars, which will cover the Transferable Aspherical Atom Model (TAAM) of X-ray scattering.

From Rigaku Corporation 24 Jun 2020

Exciting New Developments for Polymers Made from Waste Sulfur

Researchers at the University of Liverpool are making significant progress in the quest to develop new sulfur polymers that provide an environmentally friendly alternative to some traditional petrochemical based plastics.

24 Jun 2020

Study Images Compressibility of Electrons in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to the other by a "magic" angle show a variety of interesting quantum phases, including superconductivity, magnetism and insulating behaviours.

24 Jun 2020

Novel Polymer Coating to Incapacitate Coronavirus, Prevent Transmission

Lehigh is one of four universities to receive funding through the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program COVID-19 Challenge supporting innovative research projects that could potentially impact Pennsylvania's pandemic response.

24 Jun 2020

Study Takes Detailed Look at Gamma Rays Produced by Pion Decays

A group of researchers including scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, University of Tokyo, Nagoya University, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency used the spin-polarized Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States to show that, in polarized proton-proton collisions, neutral pions emitted in the very forward area of collisions--where direct interactions involving quarks and gluons are not applicable--still have a large degree of left-right asymmetry.

24 Jun 2020

New Sulfur Polymers Could be Viable Alternative to Petrochemical-Based Plastics

24 Jun 2020

Researchers Synthesize Brand-New Transition Metal Carbonyl Complexes

Since the end of the 19th century, transition metal carbonyls have been an important and familiar class of compound in coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry.

24 Jun 2020

Study Finds Microstructure of a Material is Crucial to its Dynamic Response

When a material is subjected to an extreme load in the form of a shock or blast wave, damage often forms internally through a process called spall fracture.

24 Jun 2020

Researchers Spectrally Broaden, Compress Pulses of Titanium Sapphire Laser

Researchers at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have reached a new milestone in few-cycle pulse generation, breaking a 10-year-old record and achieving 1.5-optical-cycle-long laser pulses with 1.2 terawatt peak power by a new high-energy hollow fiber compressor beamline.

24 Jun 2020

Novel Technique for Degrading Cellulose for Use as Biofuel

With the imminent threat of a climate crisis hanging over our heads, it has become crucial to develop efficient alternatives to fossil fuels.

24 Jun 2020

New 3D Structure with Semiconductor Properties for Powerful Computers

Our computers are becoming more and more powerful all the time. They also often become smaller - just think of what a standard smartphone can do today compared to just a few years ago.

24 Jun 2020

Orientation of Molecules During Movement Determines Outcome of Their Collision

What happens when a molecule collides with a surface- Researchers at Swansea University have shown that the orientation of the molecule as it moves - whether it is spinning like a helicopter blade or rolling like a cartwheel - is important in determining what happens in the collision.

24 Jun 2020