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Transforming Nanofiber Membranes into Complex 3D Scaffolds

In the movie "Transformers," cars morph into robots, jets or a variety of machinery. A similar concept inspired a group of researchers to combine gas foaming, which is a blend of chemicals that induces gas bubbling, and 3D molding technologies to quickly transform electrospun membranes into complex 3D shapes for biomedical applications.

13 May 2020

HKU Project Makes Important Breakthrough in New Super D&P Steel

The Super Steel project led by Professor Huang Mingxin at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Hong Kong, with collaborators at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, has made important breakthrough in its new super D&P steel (produced using a new deformed and partitioned method) to greatly enhance its fracture resistance while maintaining super strong in strength for advanced industrial applications.

13 May 2020

High-Quality Fluoride Nanocrystals for Flexible Antiferromagnetic Devices

When magnetic materials are nanometric at least in one dimension, the surface effect often dominates the static and transport behaviors due to the limited long-range order and broken translation symmetry.

13 May 2020

Hollow-Core Fibers Show Potential for Next Generation Optical Interferometric Systems

The novel fibres' latest advances, published this week in Nature Photonics, have underlined the technology's potential for next generation optical interferometric systems and sensors.

13 May 2020

'Water Wires' Play Important Role in Cellular Interactions

Each of our cells is surrounded by a complex membrane that functions as a biological border, letting ions and nutrients such as salt, potassium and sugar in and out.

13 May 2020

High Pressure Reactor Improves Development of Novel Catalysts

The Chianese Organometallic Chemistry group at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY, USA) are using a custom designed Multicell Parallel High-Pressure Reactor from Asynt to conduct reproducible hydrogenation experiments in parallel, to rapidly determine the kinetic properties of their novel catalysts.

From Asynt 13 May 2020

$Rigaku Introduces New Dual-Wavelength Rotating Anode X-Ray Diffractometer$

Rigaku Introduces New Dual-Wavelength Rotating Anode X-Ray Diffractometer

Rigaku Oxford Diffraction is pleased to report the release of a new dual-wavelength single crystal system, the Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy-DW VHF dual-wavelength high-flux, rotating anode X-ray diffractometer.

From Rigaku Corporation 13 May 2020

Defective Graphene Has High Electrocatalytic Activity

Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Skoltech, and the Russian Academy of Sciences Joint Institute for High Temperatures have conducted a theoretical study of the effects of defects in graphene on electron transfer at the graphene-solution interface.

12 May 2020

Cementex Announces New Digital Voltage Phasing Meter Set

Cementex, the safety tool specialists, announces the new Digital Voltage Phasing Meter Set, ideal for measuring overhead and underground voltages.

From Cementex Products, Inc. 12 May 2020

Characterizing Virus and Virus-Like Particles

Postnova Analytics reports how its latest generation of Asymmetrical Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) systems are providing labs worldwide with a uniquely powerful technique to characterize and quantitate virus and virus-like particles.

From Postnova Analytics 12 May 2020

New Study Could Help Design Perovskite LEDs with Broad-Range Light Emission

Some light-emitting diodes created from perovskite, a class of optoelectronic materials, emit light over a broad wavelength range.

12 May 2020

New Technique to Create More Stable and Precise Atomic-Scale Devices

Once unimaginable, transistors consisting only of several-atom clusters or even single atoms promise to become the building blocks of a new generation of computers with unparalleled memory and processing power.

12 May 2020

Study Unravels Triangulene Magnetism Using Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Graphene is a diamagnetic material, this is, unable of becoming magnetic. However, a triangular piece of graphene is predicted to be magnetic.

12 May 2020

New Method to Systematically Control Functional Behaviour of Memristors

Scientists around the world are intensively working on memristive devices, which are capable in extremely low power operation and behave similarly to neurons in the brain.

12 May 2020

Nanocellulose Organizes Itself in Different Ways to form Robust Materials

Cohesion, the ability to keep things together, from the scale of nanoparticles to building sites is inherent to these nanofibrils, which can act as mortar to a nearly infinite type of particles as described in the study.

12 May 2020