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New Method to Produce Tailored Polyimide Membranes to Purify Sour Gas

Natural gas that contains larger amounts of hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) and carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is termed sour gas. Before it can enter a pipeline, it must be "sweetened" by removal of its acidic impurities.

24 Jun 2020

Researchers Discover New Form of Human-Made Mendelevium Isotope

A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium.

24 Jun 2020

New Laser-Based Technique to Refrigerate Solid Semiconductor

To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct.

24 Jun 2020

New Study to Explore Details of Magnetism in 2D Materials

The Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University experimental physicist Ming Yi a five-year grant to explore the details of magnetism in two-dimensional materials.

24 Jun 2020

New Method to Produce Layered, Difficult-to-Combine, Heterostructure Solids

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from Iowa State University have developed a new approach for generating layered, difficult-to-combine, heterostructured solids.

24 Jun 2020

VFD Creates Improved Bacteria Detector

The versatility of the Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD) continues to impress, with the innovative green chemistry device created at Flinders University having more than 100 applications – including the creation of a new non-toxic fluorescent dye that detects bacteria harmful to humans

23 Jun 2020

Lorin Perforated Anodized Aluminum Makes a Statement on Unique Jobs

Lorin Industries, Inc., the global industry leader in the innovation and production of coil anodized aluminum, announces that its updatedcoil anodized aluminum for perforated aluminum in architectural and construction applications now contains new hole patterns, including a square pattern.

From Lorin Industries 23 Jun 2020

CEA-Leti Demos CMOS Device Fabrication at 500 °C, Paving Way to High-Performance 3D Monolithic CMOS Integration

In an FDSOI CMOS processing breakthrough, CEA-Leti scientists have pushed fabrication thermal-process boundaries down to 500 °C for CMOS integration, while showing strong performance gains especially in P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) logic devices.

23 Jun 2020

Analyswift Joins the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) with Cutting Edge VABS Simulation Software for Slender Composite Structures

AnalySwift, LLC, a provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for composites and other advanced materials, announced today it has joined the Altair Partner Alliance (APA).

From AnalySwift, LLC 23 Jun 2020

White Paper: Separation and Characterization of Viruses and Antibodies

Postnova Analytics have published an informative new white paper that details how multi-detector Asymmetrical Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) and Electrical AF4 (EAF4) techniques are transforming the separation and characterization of viruses and antibodies.

From Postnova Analytics 23 Jun 2020

New Processing Technology to Increase Energy Densities of Batteries

A team of Korean researchers has developed a processing technology for maximizing energy densities of high-capacity batteries.

23 Jun 2020

Researchers Realize New Exotic Hybrid State of Matter

Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across the crystal lattice, and localizing electron-electron interactions.

23 Jun 2020

Improved Bose-Einstein Condensate Produces Brighter Coherent Light Beam

Researchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate with record speed, creating the fascinating phase of matter in about 100 femtoseconds.

23 Jun 2020

Researchers Realize Unique Electronic State in New Chiral Topological Compound

The concept of chirality is well-established in science: when an object cannot be superimposed on its mirror image, both the object and its mirror image are called chiral.

23 Jun 2020

New MOF-Based Photocatalyst to Generate Clean Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight

A metal organic framework (MOF)-based water splitting photocatalyst, developed at KAUST, has brought researchers a step closer to generating clean hydrogen fuel using sunlight.

23 Jun 2020