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Metcal to Demo Its Innovative Solder Tip Cleaner at the SMTA Heartland Expo

Metcal today announced plans to exhibit at the SMTA Heartland Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, July 18, 2019 at the Marriott Kansas City Overland Park in Kansas. Representatives from Metcal will demonstrate the Connection Validation (CV) Soldering System with new hand-pieces, AC-STC Tip Cleaner and HCT2-200-11 Hot Air Pencil.

From Metcal 12 Jul 2019

Saelig Introduces T3RC Rogowski Coil Current Probes For A.C. or Fast Pulse Current Measurements

Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced Teledyne Test Tools T3RC Rogowski Current Probes that offer broad current measurement ranges and a wide frequency span which are also easy to use in difficult-to-reach parts of circuits.

From Saelig Company, Inc. 12 Jul 2019

Robert Bosch Venture Capital Invests in Xometry

Xometry, the largest on-demand manufacturing marketplace, today announced that Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC) will join the company’s recently announced Series D round.

From Xometry 12 Jul 2019

New Theoretical Model Helps Predict Glass Stability During Use

Researchers have developed a unique theoretical model that gives a more improved description of crystallization in glass particles and one that can also be used for estimating its speed.

11 Jul 2019

Integrating Combinatorial Materials Science with Computational Methods to Find New Materials

New materials are important for several things, including efficient energy conversion for eco-friendly engines of the future.

11 Jul 2019

Easy-to-Measure Parameter for Selecting Electrolyte for Metal-Air Batteries

Metal-air batteries are known to possess excellent gravimetric energy densities, and hence they have been pursued as an ideal replacement to lithium-ion batteries.

11 Jul 2019

Maintaining Integrity of Thermally Sensitive Biological Assays

The DrySyn ChilliBlock from Asynt allows you to undertake sensitive biological assays in a temperature-controlled manor, vastly reducing the risk of expensive biological samples, reagents or enzymes degrading due to adverse temperature conditions.

From Asynt 11 Jul 2019

NEW SENDURO®MEMS - Thin Film Quality Control for MEMS and Sensor Fabrication

SENTECH Instruments is a leading supplier of plasma process technology equipment for etching and deposition and thin film metrology instruments based on spectroscopic ellipsometry.

From Sentech Instruments 11 Jul 2019

Microchip Valve Powered by Earthworm Muscle

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have built the first microchip valve driven by living cells.

10 Jul 2019

Rechargeable Planar Zn//MnO2 Miro-Batteries Produced by Screen Printing

Growing development of micro-scale electronics has urged the need for related micro-scale power sources, particularly for micro-batteries (MBs). Poor flexibility and complicated manufacturing process of the conventional stacked batteries, however, have prevented their practical applications.

10 Jul 2019

Study May Help Develop New Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Light is converted into electrical energy by transition-metal complexes present in dye-based solar cells. This conversion has been described using a model of spatial charge separation inside the molecule.

10 Jul 2019

Excitement at VERT as First 30 Compressor Units are Ready for UK Companies

The production team at VERT have been busy putting the final touches to the first batch of 30 A100 compressors ready for delivery to UK customers.

From Vert Technologies 10 Jul 2019

‘Game-Changing’ Crucible VAluStar™ Launched for Aluminium Casting Process

A technological advance in materials science is supporting customers to increase productivity, by offering more than a 50% increase in the lifespan of crucibles used in the aluminium casting process*. VAluStar™ crucibles are the latest and most advanced range of crucibles developed by Morgan Advanced Materials.

From Morgan Advanced Materials 10 Jul 2019

Measuring the Laws of Nature

A physical constant, which is of great importance for basic research, has now be re-measured, with much higher precision than ever before.

10 Jul 2019

New Multifunctional Metal Alloys Change Size and Volume Under Magnetic Field

Researchers from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) created multifunctional metal alloys that release and absorb heat simultaneously and transform in volume and size under the impact of a magnetic field.

10 Jul 2019