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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

Study Could Usher Revolutionary Development in Materials Science

A study by a team of researchers from Canada and Italy recently published in Nature Materials could usher in a revolutionary development in materials science, leading to big changes in the way companies create modern electronics.

21 May 2020

Researchers Propose New Metamaterial Capable of Changing Optical Properties

Modern optical devices require constant tuning of their light interaction settings. For that purpose, there exist various mechanical apparatuses that shift lenses, rotate reflectors, and move emitters.

21 May 2020

New Machine-Learning Tool Could Help Develop Stronger Materials

For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through.

21 May 2020

A Breakthrough in Growing 2D Crystals with Excellent Optical Properties

For the first time, monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with excellent optical properties were grown.

21 May 2020

ASTM D8267 Included in Jet Fuel Specification ASTM D1655

Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 – Cedar Park, TX VUV Analytics Inc. announced today that ASTM D8267-19a, the “Standard Test method for Determination of Total Aromatic, Monoaromatic and Diaromatic Content of Aviati...

From VUV Analytics 20 May 2020