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Vanta™ Data Viewer App Simplifies XRF Data Sharing

The new Olympus Data Viewer app for Vanta handheld XRF analyzers provides Olympus Scientific Cloud™ (OSC) users with a central location to remotely view and share real-time analysis results from multiple analyzers.

From Evident - NDT 22 May 2020

Online COMSOL Conference 2020 North America Announced for October 7-8

COMSOL is pleased to announce the COMSOL Conference 2020 North America, to be held on October 7–8, 2020.

From COMSOL Multiphysics Pvt. Ltd. 22 May 2020

Electric Circuit Networks Offer Possibility to Realize Interesting Topological Properties

In recent years, topology has emerged as an important tool to classify and characterize properties of materials.

21 May 2020

Building Hollow Nanoreactors for Enhanced Photo-Oxidations

Oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids is of importance in both organic chemistry and chemical industry because the oxidation products can be used to prepare various pharmaceuticals and useful chemicals.

21 May 2020

New 3D-Printed System Accelerates Solar Cell Testing

Tests on new designs for next-gen solar cells can now be done in hours instead of days thanks to a new system built by scientists at Australia's Monash University, incorporating 3D-printed key components.

21 May 2020

Surface Doping Strategy to Modulate Electronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are the heart of plastic electronics. Doping has been proven to improve the performance of OFETs effectively. There are two major ways of doping OSCs.

21 May 2020

Study Could Usher Revolutionary Development in Materials Science

A study by a team of researchers from Canada and Italy recently published in Nature Materials could usher in a revolutionary development in materials science, leading to big changes in the way companies create modern electronics.

21 May 2020

Researchers Propose New Metamaterial Capable of Changing Optical Properties

Modern optical devices require constant tuning of their light interaction settings. For that purpose, there exist various mechanical apparatuses that shift lenses, rotate reflectors, and move emitters.

21 May 2020

New Machine-Learning Tool Could Help Develop Stronger Materials

For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through.

21 May 2020

A Breakthrough in Growing 2D Crystals with Excellent Optical Properties

For the first time, monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with excellent optical properties were grown.

21 May 2020

ASTM D8267 Included in Jet Fuel Specification ASTM D1655

VUV Analytics' ASTM D8267-19a standard for jet fuel analysis utilizes GC-VUV technology, ensuring reliable results while reducing testing costs dramatically.

From VUV Analytics 20 May 2020

Spreadable Interlayer Could Increase Performance and Safety of Solid State Batteries

Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi'an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way of taking this promising concept closer to large-scale application.

20 May 2020

Researchers Propose New, Accurate Descriptor for Ion-p Interactions

Understanding and predicting how molecules recognize each other are the key issues in the field of supramolecular chemistry and biology, etc., where the non-covalent bindings play an essential role.

20 May 2020

Novel Acoustofluidic Technology for Multiplexed Submicron Particle Trapping

Acoustofluidics is the fusion of acoustics and fluid mechanics which provides a contact-free, rapid and effective manipulation of fluids and suspended particles.

20 May 2020

Ecological Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Relevant Compounds

Uniqsis reports that the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) has invested in a FlowLab™ Scale continuous flow reactor to assist them in 'green' chemical synthesis of pharmaceutically-relevant compounds.

From Uniqsis Ltd 20 May 2020