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JH Technologies Launches JH Analytical Lab Services

JH Technologies, leading distributor of optical and digital imaging systems, materials preparation, testing and analysis systems, and metrology tools announces that it recently opened JH Analytical Lab Services at the company’s headquarters in Fremont, California.

From JH Technologies 22 May 2020

Molybdenum Telluride Nanoflakes Show Remarkable Performance for H2O2 Production in Acids

H2O2 is an important commodity chemical and potential energy carrier, and is widely used for various environmental, medical and household applications.

22 May 2020

Sandia Labs Helps Company to Move Metals Characterization Technology Forward

When a small business needed help proving that its invention, a tabletop laser system, could characterize metals faster and more easily than current equipment, they turned to Sandia National Laboratories' expertise in metals characterization.

22 May 2020

NUS Researchers Develop Novel Shadow-Effect Energy Generator

Shadows are often associated with darkness and uncertainty. Now, researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) are giving shadows a positive spin by demonstrating a way to harness this common but often overlooked optical effect to generate electricity.

22 May 2020

Ultrasonic Technique Reveals Interplanar Bond Strength in Graphite

A group of scientists from Osaka University, in cooperation with Kaneka Corporation, evaluated the interplanar bond strength of graphene by measuring the elastic constant of graphite, demonstrating that the elastic constant of monocrystalline graphite was above 45 gigapascal, which was higher than conventionally believed.

22 May 2020

Columbia Engineers Build High-Performance Non-Reciprocal Device on a Compact Chip

Waves, whether they are light waves, sound waves, or any other kind, travel in the same manner in forward and reverse directions--this is known as the principle of reciprocity.

22 May 2020

Novel Metal-Free Methodology for Fluorination of Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Bonds

Researchers from the Muñiz group have published a paper in Angewandte Chemie - International Edition presenting a new metal-free methodology for the photo-catalysed nucleophilic fluorination of aliphatic hydrocarbon bonds.

22 May 2020

A Replaceable Nanoporous Membrane in N95 Masks Effectively Filters Virus Particles

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there's been a worldwide shortage of face masks -- particularly, the N95 ones worn by health care workers.

22 May 2020

New Technology Could Pave the Way for Increased Fuel Economy

A technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could pave the way for increased fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions as part of an octane-on-demand fuel-delivery system.

22 May 2020

Vanta™ Data Viewer App Simplifies XRF Data Sharing

The new Olympus Data Viewer app for Vanta handheld XRF analyzers provides Olympus Scientific Cloud™ (OSC) users with a central location to remotely view and share real-time analysis results from multiple analyzers.

From Evident Corporation - NDT 22 May 2020

Online COMSOL Conference 2020 North America Announced for October 7-8

COMSOL is pleased to announce the COMSOL Conference 2020 North America, to be held on October 7–8, 2020.

From COMSOL Multiphysics Pvt. Ltd. 22 May 2020

Electric Circuit Networks Offer Possibility to Realize Interesting Topological Properties

In recent years, topology has emerged as an important tool to classify and characterize properties of materials.

21 May 2020

Building Hollow Nanoreactors for Enhanced Photo-Oxidations

Oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids is of importance in both organic chemistry and chemical industry because the oxidation products can be used to prepare various pharmaceuticals and useful chemicals.

21 May 2020

New 3D-Printed System Accelerates Solar Cell Testing

Tests on new designs for next-gen solar cells can now be done in hours instead of days thanks to a new system built by scientists at Australia's Monash University, incorporating 3D-printed key components.

21 May 2020

Surface Doping Strategy to Modulate Electronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are the heart of plastic electronics. Doping has been proven to improve the performance of OFETs effectively. There are two major ways of doping OSCs.

21 May 2020