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Lithium Ark Granted European Patent for Breakthrough Lithium Refining Technology

Lithium Ark, the technology company pioneering a new approach to lithium refining, today announced that its proprietary process, now named Ark Loop, has been granted a European patent.

1 Sep 2026

New Machine Learning Models Improve Real-Time Nuclear Chemical Monitoring

It's challenging for scientists to monitor chemical processes at nuclear facilities in real time. In this study, scientists developed new techniques to analyze chemical solutions in complex environments.

31 Aug 2026

PI Expands Materials Portfolio with Composite and Lead-Free Piezo Materials

Composite and lead-free piezoelectric materials offer new design options for ultrasonic transducers, with tailored properties for frequency, sensitivity, power, and flexibility.

From PI Ceramic GmbH 27 Aug 2026

AI Optimizes Chemical Monitoring for Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors

For decades, we have treated used nuclear fuel as high-level waste to be buried and forgotten.

27 Aug 2026

New APIs Extend Wiley's Gold-Standard Spectral Data and Analytical Intelligence Directly Into Lab, Vendor, and Platform Workflows

Wiley, a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence, today announced the launch of its spectral analysis application programming interface (API) portfolio, providing users with a new, faster way to access its trusted spectral data, analytical algorithms, and predictive models–within their own workflows.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 26 Aug 2026

Soft Biological Matter Outperforms Traditional Rigid Silicon for Neuromorphic Computing

A decades-long collaboration between two Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists is reshaping how we understand learning.

20 Aug 2026

New Plastic Turns Into a Gas When Heated – Then Reforms Once Cooled

A new type of plastic that turns into a gas when heated and reforms into a solid when cooled has been developed by scientists at the University of Surrey, opening up a new approach to processing and recycling polymers.

19 Aug 2026

AI Microscope Eliminates Sample Shuttling to Protect Fragile Biological Context

Biology doesn’t happen at one scale. Molecular interactions unfold in milliseconds and nanometers, while disease-associated change such as in Alzheimer’s spreads across millimeters of brain tissue. Understanding complex biological systems requires scientists to watch both — ideally at the same time and with the same sample.

19 Aug 2026

New Nanoarchitectonics Material Creates Clean Hydrogen Peroxide Using Solar Energy

A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new material that combines inorganic material with biological components to produce hydrogen peroxide more efficiently.

14 Aug 2026

Beyond Raman: New Dimensions in Multimodal Chemical Imaging

Join us for an afternoon live webinar broadcast of our ICORS 2026 (International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, 2026) Workshop exploring the latest advances in multimodal chemical imaging, powered by photothermal detection.

From Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp 13 Aug 2026

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