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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

New 3D-Printed Reactor Core Could Ensure Optimal, Reliable Energy System

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods to confirm the consistency and reliability of its printed components.

12 May 2020

Bismuth Trioxide Polymer Compound Could Serve as Effective Radiation Shield

A new study from researchers at North Carolina State University suggests that a material consisting of a polymer compound embedded with bismuth trioxide particles holds tremendous potential for replacing conventional radiation shielding materials, such as lead.

12 May 2020

New Non-Toxic Perovskite Solar Cells Offer Long-Time Stable Performance

Among the new materials for solar cells, the halide perovskites are considered particularly promising. Within a few years, the efficiency of such perovskite solar cells raised from a few percents to over 25%.

12 May 2020

Peak Scientific Releases New Total Organic Carbon Generator, the TOC 1000

On the 1st of May 2020, Peak Scientific, market leader in laboratory gas generators, released its latest gas solution specifically for TOC analyzers, the TOC 1000.

From Peak Scientific 12 May 2020

COLDBLOCK TECHNOLOGIES Raises $1.5 Million To Develop Generation 3 System With Automation & Expand International Distribution

Canadian startup, ColdBlock Technologies Inc. (ColdBlock), inventor of the innovative sample digestion technology that delivers a new performance standard for laboratories serving the environmental, metals and ...

From ColdBlock Technologies Inc 11 May 2020