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Spent Coffee Grounds are Promising Raw Material for Producing Cellulose Nanofibers

Researchers at Yokohama National University meticulously examined cellulose nanofibers extracted from spent coffee grounds, identifying them as a viable new raw source.

7 Apr 2020

Study Reveals In Situ Crystal Growth of Lead-Free Perovskites

Lead-based perovskites are very promising materials for the production of solar panels. They efficiently turn light into electricity but they also present some major drawbacks: the most efficient materials are not very stable, while lead is a toxic element.

7 Apr 2020

NTU Singapore Scientists Create Paper-Like Material from Pollen

Scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have created a paper-like material derived from pollen that bends and curls in response to changing levels of environmental humidity.

7 Apr 2020

The Link Between Magnetism and Electronic-Band Topology

Materials that integrate quantum magnetism and topological electronic properties have presently attracted a great deal of interest, specifically for the quantum many-body physics that are likely to unfold in them and also for potential applications in electronic components.

6 Apr 2020

Materials Testing Just Got Much Faster

A new single-column universal testing machine from Lloyd Instruments provides ultra-high speed testing along with flexibility, reliability and high accuracy test results for all materials testing applications up to 5 kN supporting test types such as tensile, compression, bend, friction, tearing, peeling, insertion/extraction, creep/relaxation and many other.

From Lloyd Instruments Ltd. 6 Apr 2020

New Algorithm Quantitatively Characterizes Microstructures in 3D

Modern scientific research on materials relies heavily on exploring their behavior at the atomic and molecular scales. For that reason, scientists are constantly on the hunt for new and improved methods for data gathering and analysis of materials at those scales.

6 Apr 2020

Developing Unique Instrument to Study Microscopic Properties of Superconductors

Superconductors are one of the most exciting materials from the last century. However, even a hundred years after the discovery of superconductivity we understand its microscopic mechanisms only in the simplest cases.

6 Apr 2020

Navy to Help Fund AnalySwift to Improve Service Life of Helicopters

An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, satellites and cellphone electronics soon will help the U.S. Navy save millions in costs and downtime, while extending the service life of helicopters.

From AnalySwift, LLC 3 Apr 2020

Chaotic Flows in Active Nematic Fluids Obey Unique Scaling Laws

Turbulent flows exhibit versatile statistical properties despite being chaotic.

3 Apr 2020

Custom-Configured 80 GHz Non-Contact Radar Level Sensors

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From BinMaster 3 Apr 2020

New IONICON Corporate, Product & Technologies Brochure

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From IONICON Analytik 3 Apr 2020

2020 Wilson Hardness Webinar Series to Focus on Surface Hardened Parts

Are you testing parts for aerospace or automotive? Do you want to improve your sample preparation for micro-hardness testing? If yes, join Buehler for this educational series that will be conducted in several time zones and languages.

From Buehler 3 Apr 2020

New Supramolecular Copolymers Driven by Self-Sorting of Molecules

Chiba University. Researchers in Japan have succeeded in creating a new type of helicoidal supramolecular polymer. The process and mechanism of the generation of its structure were observed using atomic force microscopy (AFM); the helicoidal structure grew spontaneously after two different monomers were mixed. The findings of the study, which was published in Nature Communications on April 1st, 2020 may lead to the design of original soft materials.

3 Apr 2020

An All-Organic Proton Battery Energized for Sustainable Energy Storage

Uppsala University. Sustainable energy storage is in great demand. Researchers at Uppsala University have therefore developed an all-organic proton battery that can be charged in a matter of seconds. The battery can be charged and discharged over 500 times without any significant loss of capacity. Their work has been published in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie.

3 Apr 2020

A New Way to Fine-Tune Exotic Materials: Thin, Stretch and Clamp

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and changed its magnetic properties. The technique can be used to study and design a broad range of materials for use in things like sensors and detectors.

3 Apr 2020