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Smart Wearable Technology Could Help People with Affective Disorders

Smart wearable technology that heats up, changes in color, vibrates, or squeezes as the wearer’s emotions are heightened holds the promise to help people with affective disorders to control their feelings more effectively.

1 Jul 2019

New Technique for Semi-Quantitative Visual Detection of Lead Ions

A Chinese study team has come up with an effective colorimetric fluorescent detection of lead ions in water and realized real-time, visual, and semi-quantitative detection by printing the paper strip with fluorescence probe solution and a smartphone application (Color recognizer, Xiyi Technology).

1 Jul 2019

Researchers Engineer 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures

Atomically thin crystalline layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been grown by scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University with different compositions over space, continuously feeding in various types of TMDC to a growth chamber to modify variations in properties.

1 Jul 2019

Unlocking the Potential of Solid-State Batteries

Solid-state batteries can be said to be a new kind of battery design that utilizes all solid components.

1 Jul 2019

Insect-Inspired, Greener Water-Repellent Membranes for Desalination

A new membrane created from water-wet materials comprises specially designed gas-entrapping pores that enable it to concurrently separate hot, salty from cool, pure water while aiding the transfer of pure vapor from one side to the other.

1 Jul 2019

CHINAPLAS 2019 Ends with Huge Success, Showcased Innovative Technologies

CHINAPLAS 2019 closed its highly successful, four-day run in Guangzhou on May 24. The annual show –– held this year at the China Import & Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, in Southern China –– attracted 3,622 exhibitors and 163,314 professional visitors from all over the world.

29 Jun 2019

VICI Introduces VICTREX™ PAEK-based One-piece Fitting to Withstand High-pressures

VICI is the first company to offer a new one-piece fitting using VICTREX™ PAEK high-performance polymer.

From Victrex plc. 29 Jun 2019

Toray Creates New Nylon Textile with High Water Repellency for Outdoor Sports

Toray Industries has announced that using a proprietary composite spinning technology called NANODESIGN®, Toray Industries had created a new Nylon textile that delivers high water repellency despite using a DWR treatment with a lower environmental cost.

From Toray Industries, Inc. 29 Jun 2019

Innovia Films Launches a Range of Transparent High-barrier Packaging Films

Innovia Films is launching the first of its new range of transparent high barrier packaging films, Propafilm™ Strata SL. It has been designed to be a standalone mono filmic solution or, to be used in laminate constructions to be ‘recycle ready’, or recyclable in countries which have the infrastructure to recycle polypropylene films.

From Innovia Films Ltd 29 Jun 2019

Discovery Reveals a Sweet Way to Make Everyday Things Nearly Indestructible

The secret to making clothing practically indestructible could be the same thing that makes us grow out of it: sugar.

29 Jun 2019

Saki Corporation's QDP System Provides Accuracy and Reliability for M2M Communication

Saki Corporation, an innovator in the field of automated optical and x-ray inspection and measurement equipment, will present how machine-to-machine (M2M) communication can be achieved by using an automated inspection system based on Quality Driven Production (QDP).

From Saki Corporation 29 Jun 2019

Superior Industries Introduces “Lifetime Warranty” on Patriot® Cone Crushers

Superior Industries Inc., a U.S. based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, announced that a limited lifetime warranty now comes standard with new Patriot Cone Crushers.

From Superior Industries, Inc. 29 Jun 2019

Indium Corporation to Host Reliability Symposium at SMTA Dallas

Indium Corporation, in cooperation with industry partners MicroCare and Weller, is hosting a half-day, reliability-focused technical symposium at SMTA Dallas on July 24 in Richardson, Texas.

29 Jun 2019

DuPont and ExxonMobil Chemical Strengthen Bond with New TPVs for Corner Mold Automotive Seals

DuPont Transportation & Industrial today announced the resounding success of its close collaboration with ExxonMobil Chemical’s specialty elastomers business to develop new Santoprene™ thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) for automotive corner mold seals.

From DuPont Inc. 29 Jun 2019

AkzoNobel Partners with the Rijksmuseum for Live Restoration of Rembrandt’s Night Watch

One of the world’s most celebrated masterpieces, The Night Watch, will undergo the most innovative restoration in the history of art thanks to a partnership between Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and AkzoNobel.

From AkzoNobel 29 Jun 2019