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Novel Adhesive for Painless Removal of Band-Aid Using Light

It may soon become a lot less painful to rip off a Band-Aid. A new type of adhesive designed by the scientists from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Xi’an Jiaotong University in China can strongly adhere wet materials—such as living tissue and hydrogel—and be easily detached using a specific frequency of light.

17 Dec 2018

Novel Thiol-Assisted Gold Leaching Processes for Recovering Gold from Electronic Waste

“Urban mining”—or the recycling of precious metals from used electronic gadgets—has turned out to be important than ever, despite the lack of processes that are both efficient and environmentally benign.

14 Dec 2018

New, Tiny Device Could Accelerate Memory and Save Power

The term “smart” is ubiquitous from watches to whole buildings. However, the more the devices are made “smart,” the greater is the need for these objects to store and recover huge amounts of data rapidly without consuming excess power.

14 Dec 2018

Novel Nanostructured Anode Material Could Extend Capacity and Cycle Life of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Traditional lithium-ion batteries, for example, those largely used in notebooks and smartphones, have already reached their performance limits.

14 Dec 2018

Albemarle’s ribbon cutting ceremony

Malvern Panalytical, a global leader in analytical characterization technology development, is proud to announce that a ribbon cutting ceremony marking the successful installation of the Claisse® rFusion system for A...

From Malvern Panalytical 14 Dec 2018

No Rocket Science – Maximizing the Benefits of Ion Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (IC-MS)

IC-MS is a proven method for the highly sensitive and selective analysis of anions, oxoanions, herbicides, and pesticides.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 14 Dec 2018

Wastewater Analysis in Treatment Plants – Critical Parameters and How to Measure Them

Operators of wastewater treatment plants depend on reliable methods to monitor plant performance.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 14 Dec 2018

Car Manufacturer Selects Contour Filter for Paint Production

Amazon Filters has received a further order from a leading car manufacturer to deliver an optimised filtration system to ensure the quality of the electrophoretic paint stages on their production paint line. With ...

From Amazon Filters Ltd. 14 Dec 2018

Motorized Miniature Translation Stage is Affordable and Precise, Newly Released by PI

The L-408 linear stage strikes a good balance of load capacity, precision, and low cost. It has applications in research and industry including optics, bio-tech, and assembly of miniature components and photonics instrum...

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 13 Dec 2018

New Cellulose Biosensor Material Could Redefine Tissue Engineering

In association with Irish colleagues, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University successfully developed a novel imaging technique for tissue engineering.

13 Dec 2018

Researchers Develop the Stiffest Porous Lightweight Materials Ever

With 3D printing and other additive production methods, it is possible to create materials with internal structures of formerly inconceivable complexity.

13 Dec 2018

Science, cheese and mountains, in Switzerland the winners of the Metrohm Young Chemist Award Announced

The competition for the Metrohm Young Chemist Award came to a close lately with the three winners visiting Metrohm International Headquarters in Switzerland. From there, Sophia Oukala (France), Antonella Giarra (Italy), ...

From Metrohm USA Inc. 13 Dec 2018

Novel Method of Using Carbonylation to Obtain Polyester from Castor Oil

One of the significant tasks in modern materials science and an important challenge to be addressed for sustainable industrial production to have a future is the development of future technologies that are not based on mineral oil and can be used for synthesizing plastics and chemicals.

13 Dec 2018

Researchers Use 3D Printing to Design Inexpensive Adaptive Aids for Arthritis Patients

Adaptive aids are too costly. Additive manufacturing, using inexpensive 3D printers, can save more than 94% for simple household items.

12 Dec 2018

Andor Zyla sCMOS Astronomy cameras capture lunar impacts

Impacts from Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), such as meteoroids, asteroids, or comets, can be a threat to Earth, artificial satellites, and spacecraft. It is therefore important to determine their size and assess how numerous...

From Andor Technology Ltd. 12 Dec 2018