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Thermo Fisher Scientific Products Win New Product of the Year Awards from Environmental Protection

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that two of its analytical instrument systems have won first place awards in the 2012 Environmental Protection New Product of the Year competition hosted by the Environmental Protection website.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific 28 Feb 2013

New Model of Oxygen-Ion Dynamics Contributes to YSZ Conductivity in Fuel Cells

Yttria stabilized zirconia, also known as YSZ, is a material of great interest because of its relatively high oxygen-ion based conductivity. In particular, it finds applications in electrochemical devices, such as solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen sensors.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 28 Feb 2013

Glass Can Be Made Ductile or Brittle, Theoretically

In a paper published online Feb. 26 in the journal Nature Communications, a Yale University team and collaborators propose a way of predicting whether a given glass will be brittle or ductile — a desirable property typically associated with metals like steel or aluminum — and assert that any glass could have either quality.

27 Feb 2013

Element Materials Technology Purchases TESCAN Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscopes

Element Materials Technology Laboratories have purchased three TESCAN VEGA-XMU Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscopes to replace existing equipment.

27 Feb 2013

New and Improved Website for LECO Corporation

LECO Corporation has introduced a new and improved website aimed at helping customers more easily find products, application notes, and other resources related to their market areas of interest, such as food, life scienc...

From LECO Corporation 26 Feb 2013

New Technique to Analyse PCBM Material Used in Polymer Photovoltaic Cells

Engineers and scientists from the University of Sheffield have pioneered a new technique to analyse PCBM, a material used in polymer photovoltaic cells, obtaining details of the structure of the material which will be vital to improving the cell's efficiency. The findings are published in Applied Physics Letters.

26 Feb 2013

Leica Announce New HD Microscope Cameras

Easy to use, fast live images, brilliant results – microscope users achieve all of this and more with the new Leica MC120 HD and MC170 HD cameras. Leica Microsystems gets right to the heart of today's requirements for innovative image management and expands its extensive high-definition product range for industry and research.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 26 Feb 2013

Olympus DSX Wins Gold for Product Design at 2013 iF Design Award

The Olympus DSX opto-digital industrial microscope series has earned a prestigious gold award for product design at the 2013 iF design awards. $$IMAGE$$ The award ceremony took place on the 22nd February 2013 at BM...

25 Feb 2013

Further Enhancement Of Hiden Gas ion Gun

The Hiden IG20 high-brightness gas ion gun is further enhanced by the introduction of a new beam optic and ion source configuration to enable both increased beam brightness AND beam contrast, together with a signifi...

From Hiden Analytical 22 Feb 2013

Leica Launch New Materials Microscope with Universal LED Illumination for Routine Inspection and Quality Control

The new DM2700 M materials microscope from Leica Microsystems is ideal for all kinds of routine inspection tasks in metallography, earth science, forensic investigation, and materials quality control and research. It offers users state-of-the-art universal white-light LED illumination with high-quality Leica optics.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 22 Feb 2013

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