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Remote Monitoring of Inspection, Even on the Move

Aimed at multinational organisations with factories worldwide but equally applicable to medium size companies having several production facilities in one country, a web-based platform has been introduced by coordinate measuring machine (CMM) manufacturer LK Metrology to help production departments monitor and control inspection activities around the clock.

From LK Metrology Ltd 23 Jul 2019

Fluence Analytics Raises Series A-1 Financing

Fluence Analytics, a startup that provides combined hardware and software analytics solutions to polymer manufacturers, today announced it has raised a Series A-1 funding round.

From Fluence Analytics 23 Jul 2019

Zero Material and Solvent Losses from Pre-Shot and Flushing Shot

The ELASTOLINE low-pressure metering machines for elastomer casting have been an established, state-of-the-art product range for decades. However, low-pressure casting has one distinctive disadvantage: the loss of material and solvents due to technical reasons.

From Hennecke GmbH 23 Jul 2019

New Technique for Creating Stronger, Lightweight Magnesium Alloys

A first-ever study conducted by Monash University has found out a phenomenon and technique that can be used for producing stronger, lightweight magnesium alloys that, in turn, could enhance structural integrity in the aerospace and automobile industries.

22 Jul 2019

Machine Learning Helps Discover New Polymers

As a robust example of how artificial intelligence (AI) can speed up the discovery of new materials, researchers in Japan have engineered and verified polymers with high thermal conductivity—a property that would be instrumental in heat management, for instance, in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication technologies.

22 Jul 2019

Efficient Package Technology for Air-Stable, Waterproof Lithium Metal Anodes

Lithium metal anode has the potential to upgrade the energy density of lithium-ion batteries for its low voltage (−3.04 V vs Li/Li+) and high specific capacity (3800 mAh g−1).

22 Jul 2019

Atomic-Scale Models Offer New Insights into Reaction Pathways in Fuel Cells

Scientists in Japan have developed simulations that could offer new perceptions about the reactions taking place in solid-oxide fuel cells by using practical atomic-scale models of the active site at the electrode based on microscope observations as the preliminary point.

22 Jul 2019

Researchers Achieve New Breakthrough in Heat Transport via Single Molecules

Merging new theoretical and experimental methods, scientists from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South Korea), the University of Konstanz (Germany), and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Japan) have been successful in measuring and defining the thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions—an important quantity in nanoscale transport phenomena that has until now evaded direct experimental determination.

22 Jul 2019

Ultra-Soft, Liquid Magnetic Droplets Could Significantly Advance Technology

Conventional magnets are rigid and hard but have contributed in great measure to society and contemporary industry, says materials scientist Thomas Russell of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

19 Jul 2019

New Membranes Separate Chemicals Without Energy-Intensive Processes

Every year, chemical producers utilize an enormous amount of energy for separating and refining feedstocks to produce a broad range of products including food, gasoline, and plastics.

19 Jul 2019

New Low-Cost Thermoelectric Material Could be Used to Cool Electronic Devices

Steering wheels tend to get too hot to touch during the summer. A new thermoelectric material described in the journal Science could soon be the solution.

19 Jul 2019

Researchers Develop New Method to More Clearly See Complex Materials

Proper tools enable researchers to have Superman-like X-ray vision that uncovers obscure features buried within objects—but it is highly difficult.

19 Jul 2019

Paper Doll Made from Polymer Covalent Organic Frameworks Does Sit-Ups

Horror movies about dolls that can move around, like Chucky and Anabelle, have been popular. For now, a much less frightening animated doll has chemists interested.

18 Jul 2019

New Energy Harvester Attached to Knee Could Power Small Electronics

Just think about powering the devices by walking. This possibility might not be away from reality with the recent technology created by a team of scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

18 Jul 2019

Researchers Uncover Reason for Shorter Lifetimes in Sodium Batteries

Batteries power the lives of people: All are dependent on them to keep their cell phones and laptops active and their hybrid and electric cars on the road.

18 Jul 2019