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London's Design Museum Presents Design of the Year 2015 Award to Wyss Institute's Human Organs-on-Chips

Human organs-on-chips designed by scientists at the Wyss Institute, Harvard University, have received the overall Design of the Year 2015 Award, the most prestigious design award in the UK. The award was presented at the Design of the Year awards ceremony, which was held on June 22, 2015 at the Design Museum of London. This event marks the 8th annual awards and museum expo.

24 Jun 2015

Nordson EFD Introduces xQR41 MicroDot Needle Valve with Smaller Form Factor and Rapid Interchangeability

Nordson EFD, a Nordson company, the world's leading precision fluid dispensing systems manufacturer, introduces the xQR41 Series MicroDot™ needle valve.

24 Jun 2015

University of Manchester Invites Leading Researchers to Participate in Graphene Week 2015

The University of Manchester will be hosting the Graphene Week 2015 organized by the Graphene Flagship – a one billion euro research initiative. The initiative aims to bring all academic and industrial graphene researchers together to discuss about the progress being made with the new material in the last decade, generating new opportunities, jobs and economic growth.

23 Jun 2015

‘Molecular Movie’ Shows How Ring-Shaped Molecules Break Open

For the first time, researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have tracked the ultrafast structural changes in quadrillionths-of-a-second steps during the opening reaction of ring-shaped gas molecules.

23 Jun 2015

Porphyrine-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks Hold Promise for Solar Cells

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new material based on porphyrine metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for photovoltaics.

22 Jun 2015

DESY Scientist Film Shock Waves in Diamonds with Ultra-Short Pulses of X-rays

A research team led by DESY scientistshave filmed shock waves in diamonds using ultra-short pulses of X-rays, thereby paving the way for investigating exotic material properties.

19 Jun 2015

Bio-Inspired Smart Material System Mimics Biological Patterning

A team of scientists at the University of Bristol have designed an artificial skin that can be transformed at the flick of a switch, mimicking the camouflage properties of squids.

17 Jun 2015

UCLA Researchers Develop Three-Metal Compound Nanostructure for Eco-Friendly Fuel Cells

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have led a team that has used a three-metal compound to create nanostructures, which can produce fuel cells with improved durability and efficiency at a lower cost.

16 Jun 2015

University of Houston Researchers Work on Development of Advanced Materials

Using a $1 million grant awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the University of Houston researchers are involved in the discovery of innovative materials.

10 Jun 2015

Nature-Inspired Study to Create Structural Color Using Synthetic Melanin Packets

A study conducted at The University of Akron by Dr. Matthew Shawkey, associate professor of biology and Dr. Ali Dhinojwala, Morton Professor of Polymer Science and Ming Xiao, graduate student in collaboration with the University of California, San Diego aims to reconstruct structural color patterns observed in the feathers of birds so that color can be created without the need for pigments and dyes.

10 Jun 2015

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London's Design Museum Presents Design of the Year 2015 Award to Wyss Institute's Human Organs-on-Chips

Nordson EFD Introduces xQR41 MicroDot Needle Valve with Smaller Form Factor and Rapid Interchangeability

University of Manchester Invites Leading Researchers to Participate in Graphene Week 2015

‘Molecular Movie’ Shows How Ring-Shaped Molecules Break Open

Porphyrine-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks Hold Promise for Solar Cells

DESY Scientist Film Shock Waves in Diamonds with Ultra-Short Pulses of X-rays

Bio-Inspired Smart Material System Mimics Biological Patterning

UCLA Researchers Develop Three-Metal Compound Nanostructure for Eco-Friendly Fuel Cells

University of Houston Researchers Work on Development of Advanced Materials

Nature-Inspired Study to Create Structural Color Using Synthetic Melanin Packets

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