Materials Science News

Freeman Technology to Host 'Understanding Powders for Additive Manufacturing' Seminar

Powder flow specialists, Freeman Technology, will be hosting an ‘Understanding Powders for Additive Manufacturing’ seminar on the 11th June 2019 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, UK.

South Africa Invests in Flow Chemistry

Uniqsis reports on two major orders for its FlowSyn™ flow chemistry systems from organisations involved with the South African Pharmaceutical Industry.

Imec Adds Machine Learning to its 140 GHz Radar Technology to Enable Intuitive Man-Machine Interactions

This week, at FutureSummits 2019, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a compact highly-sensitive 140 GHz MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) radar system.

KFU Researchers Develop a New Tool for Faster Chemical Reaction Processing

Recently, Big Data has turned out to be omnipresent particularly in domains with complex and heterogeneous data patterns. This is specifically true for chemistry.

Mining Microbial Treasures from Toxic Sites

Filled with a noxious brew of copper, cadmium and arsenic, with a pH rivaling that of sulfuric acid, Montana’s Berkeley Pit seems inhospitable to life.

Understanding the Power of Honey Through its Proteins

Honey is a culinary staple that can be found in kitchens around the world.

Soaking up Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products from Water

Medications excreted in the urine or dumped into the toilet can end up in the water supply, just like lotions or cosmetics that wash off the body and go down the sink or shower drain.

Researchers Discover Why Some Red Wines Taste ‘Dry’

Wine connoisseurs can easily discriminate a dry red wine, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, from a fruitier red, like Pinot Noir.

Researchers Design Lead-Free Semiconductor Materials for Solar Cells

The joint effort of scientists from Skoltech, SB RAS Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, and RAS Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics resulted in the development of advanced lead-free semiconductors for solar cells, which are based on complex halides of bismuth and antimony.

Underwater Power Generator can Autonomously Switch Between Two Functional Modes

Underwater vehicles, detectors, and diving robots need their own supply of energy to run for extended periods autonomous of ships.

Study Shows Fluoride Significantly Increases the Stability of Perovskite-Based Solar Cells

Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have found that the stability of perovskite solar cells increases considerably when a small amount of fluoride is added to them.

New Application Report from Rigaku Demonstrates Analysis Method for Transition Metal-Based Alloys by WDXRF

Rigaku Corporation has published a new application report demonstrating quantitative analysis by the Fundamental Parameters (FP) method for iron (Fe), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) based alloys using wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometry.

Xometry Announces $50MM Equity Raise Led By Greenspring Associates

Dell Technologies Capital also participates in latest funding round to fuel continued growth for largest on-demand manufacturing marketplace.

Researchers Develop Magnetic Liquid Metals Droplets that can be Stretched at Large Scales

Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the Hollywood film Terminator 2: Judgement Day, became a humanoid liquid metal robot with superpower. Scientists have created a similar quasi-“Terminator” robot in the lab. The study was reported in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Process of Stamping Metal Sheets Receives Virtual Upgrade in the Form of a Simulation Method

A Japan-based team of scientists headed by Kanazawa University used the most modern simulation methods to determine how to fabricate the best tools to stamp complicated shapes into metal sheets without causing the resulting parts to twist out of shape.