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Polyglass Enhances ADESO® Self-Adhered Membranes

Polyglass U.S.A., Inc., a leading manufacturer of roofing and waterproofing systems, has enhanced the performance of its self-adhered mod bit roofing membranes. Used to design durable low-slope roof systems, the upgraded membranes install faster and cleaner resulting in labor and time savings.

From POLYGLASS U.S.A. Inc. 4 Jun 2020

S.S. White Technologies Highlights Custom Flexible Shafts for Food Industry Applications

S.S. White Technologies, the worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of flexible shafts, highlights their bespoke flexible shaft solutions for food industry applications. Flexible shafts transmit rotary motion much like a solid shaft, but can be curved over, under, and around areas in ways a solid shaft cannot.

From S.S. White Technologies Inc. 4 Jun 2020

New Study Could Help Material Scientists Design New Materials

Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo-IIS) used artificial intelligence to rapidly infer the excited state of electrons in materials.

4 Jun 2020

New Method to Assemble Single Nanoparticles Directly into Pre-Patterned Template

Smart phones, tablets and laptop displays, camera lenses, biosensing devices, integrated chips and solar photovoltaic cells are among the applications that could stand to benefit from an innovative method of nanocrystal assembly pioneered by Australian scientists.

4 Jun 2020

Designing New Catalytic Materials that Reduce Need to Use Precious Metals

Phillip Christopher, an associate professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has received the 2020 Young Investigator Award from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

4 Jun 2020

Platelet Ordered Mesoporous Silica Improves Capacity, Stability of Batteries

The tremendous increase in the use of mobile technology, wearable electronics, and a wide range of portable devices in general over the past few decades, has driven scientists worldwide to seek out the next breakthrough in rechargeable batteries.

4 Jun 2020

New Porous Ceramic Coatings Improves Gas Sensing Performance of Devices

Many common household items and devices have a coating that improves performance. For example, the thin Teflon coating on cookware helps prevent food from sticking to the surface.

4 Jun 2020

New Sustainable Method to Extract Flavoring Agent Vanillin from Lignin

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have developed a new sustainable method of extracting the flavoring agent vanillin from lignin, a component of wood.

4 Jun 2020

New Method Could Enable Scalable, Economically Viable Hydrogen Production

Pour yourself a glass of water and take a look at it. This water contains an abundant source of fuel, hydrogen. Hydrogen burns clean unlike petrol-based energy products.

4 Jun 2020

New Armor-Plated Superhydrophobic Surface Exhibits Superior Durability

Superhydrophobic surfaces repel water like nothing else. This makes them extremely useful for antimicrobial coatings - as bacteria, viruses and other pathogens cannot cling to their surfaces.

4 Jun 2020

New Approach to Demonstrate Symmetry of Parity Violation in Molecules

Scientists have long tried to experimentally demonstrate a certain symmetry property of the weak interaction - parity violation - in molecules.

4 Jun 2020

New Study Shows Magnetic Relaxation Depends on Orientation of Molecule

Scientists from IFJ PAN in cooperation with researchers from the Nara Women's University (Japan) and the Jagiellonian University (Poland) took another important step towards building a functional quantum computer.

4 Jun 2020

New Method to Improve Charge-Separation Properties of Bismuth Vanadate Catalysts

The ever-worsening global environmental crisis, coupled with the depletion of fossil fuels, has motivated scientists to look for clean energy sources.

4 Jun 2020

New Nanoparticle can Produce Green Coherent Light at Room Temperature

An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced the development of the world's most compact semiconductor laser that works in the visible range at room temperature.

4 Jun 2020

Study Could Help Apply Graphene as Building Block for Future Electronics

A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a new review on a field of computer device development known as spintronics, which could see graphene used as building block for next-generation electronics.

4 Jun 2020