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New Techsil Catalogue Published – Adhesives, Sealants, Coatings, O-Rings & Tapes

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From Techsil Ltd 8 May 2020

New Method of Making Low-Cost, Mass-Producible Adhesive Materials

Why did the gecko climb the skyscraper- Because it could; its toes stick to about anything. For a few years, engineers have known the secrets of gecko stickiness and emulated it in strips of rubbery materials useful for picking up and releasing objects, but simple mass production for everyday use has been out of reach until now.

8 May 2020

New Technology can Further Miniaturize 3D Photonic Circuits

From compact biosensors and spectrometers to invisible devices and quantum computers, applications related to integrated photonics are increasingly sought after.

8 May 2020

New Tiny Lenses can be Formed on Various Materials by Laser 3D Printing

Additive manufacturing is a technique in which the final three-dimensional object is produced by successively adding new layers of building material to those that have already been deposited.

8 May 2020

Lab-Grown 2D Molybdenum Dioxide Flakes Exhibit Piezoelectric Properties

Rice University researchers have found evidence of piezoelectricity in lab-grown, two-dimensional flakes of molybdenum dioxide.

8 May 2020

Typical Precursors of Superconductivity Revealed Even Above Critical Temperature

From sustainable energy to quantum computers: high-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionize today's technologies.

8 May 2020

Tungsten Oxide Nanoparticles Used as Photothermal Sensitizers 3D Printing

Selective powder sintering for 3D printing has recently become an increasingly affordable solution for manufacturing made-to-order elements of almost any shape or geometry.

8 May 2020

New Method Increases Amount of Hydrogen Produced from Sunlight, Water

A research group led by Associate Professor TACHIKAWA Takashi of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has succeeded in developing a strategy that greatly increases the amount of hydrogen produced from sunlight and water using hematite photocatalysts.

8 May 2020

Non-Contact Method to Detect Charge and Defects in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Rechargeable batteries are at the heart of many new technologies involving, for example, the increased use of renewable energies. More specifically, they are employed to power electric vehicles, cell phones, and laptops.

8 May 2020

New Method can Use Electrons in Plasma to Produce Thin Metal Films

Computers, mobile phones and all other electronic devices contain thousands of transistors, linked together by thin films of metal. Scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a method that can use the electrons in a plasma to produce these films.

8 May 2020

First-Ever Measurement of Infinitesimal Change in Mass of Individual Atoms

A new door to the quantum world has been opened: when an atom absorbs or releases energy via the quantum leap of an electron, it becomes heavier or lighter.

8 May 2020

Researchers Create Strong Coupling Between Two Systems over Greater Distance

Quantum technology is currently one of the most active fields of research worldwide. It takes advantage of the special properties of quantum mechanical states of atoms, light, or nanostructures to develop, for example, novel sensors for medicine and navigation, networks for information processing and powerful simulators for materials sciences.

8 May 2020

Study of Transient Collision Resonances of Atomic and Molecular Collisions

Recently, Prof. YANG Xueming from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. YANG Tiangang from the Southern University of Science and Technology discussed significant advances in the study of quantum resonances in atomic and molecular collisions at near absolute zero temperature.

8 May 2020

Study Offers New and Detailed Insights into Complex Fluids

Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Stuttgart, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Russian Quantum Center achieved the first systematic experimental measurements of the electrical conductivity of pure interfacial water, hence producing new results significantly extending our knowledge of interfacial water.

8 May 2020

New Method to Visualize Variations in Polymers that Arise with Age

Modern society relies on polymers, such as polypropylene or polyethylene plastic, for a wide range of applications, from food containers to automobile parts to medical devices.

7 May 2020