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New Technology to Separate Rare Earth Metals Without any Environmental Impact

The technology – developed and patented from the laboratory of Nien-Hwa Linda Wang, Purdue's Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering – has successfully shown to separate the rare earth metals without the devastating environmental effects of conventional acid based methods with high yield and purity.

7 May 2020

Novel Way to Make Functional Macroscopic Crystalline Materials

Researchers at the universities of Jyvaskyla (Finland) and Xiamen (China) have discovered a novel way to make functional macroscopic crystalline materials out of nanometer-size 34-atom silver-gold intermetallic clusters.

7 May 2020

Alkali Resistance of Geopolymer Concrete can be Improved by Heat Treatment

Fly ash generated by coal-fired power stations is an environmental headache, creating groundwater and air pollution from vast landfills and ash dams.

7 May 2020

New Antioxidant Mats can Deliver Antioxidant Activity for a Long Time

Spoiling foods, souring wine and worsening wounds have a common culprit -- a process called oxidation.

7 May 2020

Novel Sail Design Based on Perforated Films Reduces Overall Sail Mass

Overseas exploration and trade during the Age of Discovery (15th-17th centuries) were possible by sail technology, and deep-space exploration will require the same for the coming Age of NewSpace.

7 May 2020

Polyglass Announces Modibond® G FR APP Granulated Cap Sheet

Polyglass, a leading manufacturer of modified bitumen roofing and waterproofing membranes and roof coatings for low and steep-slope applications, announces Modibond® G FR, an APP (plastomeric) granulated cap sheet for low-slope roofs.

From POLYGLASS U.S.A. Inc. 7 May 2020

Public Relations Departmnet SPbPU

Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with colleagues from Southern Federal University and Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT Madras) suggested using machine learning methods to predict the properties of artificial sapphire crystals. It is a unique material widely used in microelectronics, optics and electronics.

7 May 2020

Material Characterization Webinar Series

From leading products to industry experts, Micromeritics helps open new horizons in Material Characterization.

From Freeman Technology 6 May 2020

Renishaw Launches Raman System for Forensic Analysis

Renishaw today announced the launch of the inVia™ InSpect, a new version of its bestselling inVia confocal Raman microscope, optimised for use in forensic laboratories for trace evidence analysis.

From Renishaw plc - Spectroscopy 6 May 2020

New Material Enables Faster Desalination Water than Existing Ones

Researchers in the College of Science have developed a material that is up to 40 times faster in desalinating small batches of water than other materials available today.

6 May 2020

New Findings Related to Muon Anomaly Challenge Standard Model

Two decades ago, an experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory pinpointed a mysterious mismatch between established particle physics theory and actual lab measurements.

6 May 2020

Small-Molecule Metal Catalysts Used to Create Drug Discovery Platform

The use of metals in drug delivery could offer major benefits, including allowing for lower dosages of a medication to achieve therapeutic effects. But metal catalysts haven't been fully exploited in drug discovery.

6 May 2020

Study Reports Key Chemical Discovery to Create Electronic Marijuana Breathalyzer

UCLA chemists have reported the key chemical discovery necessary for the creation of a small, electronic marijuana breathalyzer.

6 May 2020

Research Develop First-Ever Liquid Metal Lattice with Multiple Applications

Pu Zhang likes to compare his team's research on liquid metals to the Terminator -- specifically 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which a killer robot sent from a grim future can transform into anyone and anything in pursuit of its human prey.

6 May 2020

New, Unique Spinel Material Could Find Several Applications

Spinels are oxides with chemical formulas of the type AB2O4, where A is a divalent metal cation (positive ion), B is a trivalent metal cation, and O is oxygen.

5 May 2020