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Upgrade or Replace? Making the Right Choice for your aging NMR Instrument

Peabody, MA – As many legacy NMR instruments are no longer eligible for service from major players that have exited the space, members of the scientific community are faced with a choice: Keep their magnet and upgr...

From JEOL USA, Inc. 13 Jul 2023

Cornell Researchers to Decarbonize Concrete Industry with $4 Million DOE Grant

Concrete creates resilient floors, highway bridges and city sidewalks, but its usefulness comes at a cost: Concrete production causes more than 8% of carbon emissions, nearly four times as much as the aviation industry.

13 Jul 2023

Using Argonne’s Exascale Supercomputer to Speed Up Catalysis Research

Researchers are developing exascale software tools to enable the design of new chemicals and chemical processes for clean energy production.

13 Jul 2023

Study Sheds Light on the Mechanism Behind Metal-Insulator Transition in a Special Material

New research sheds light on the mechanism behind how a special material changes from an electrically conducting metal to an electric insulator. The researchers studied lanthanum strontium nickel oxide (La1.67Sr0.33NiO4) derived from a quantum material La2NiO4.

13 Jul 2023

Renault and Geely JV to Challenge Top Players in Powertrain Technologies in Long Run, Says GlobalData

Renault Group and Geely signed a joint venture agreement to launch a powertrain technology company.

13 Jul 2023

Kaman Highlights the DIT-5200L Noncontact Differential Impedance Transducer

The Measuring Division of Kaman Precision Products, Inc., the world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance position measurement systems, highlights the DIT-5200L noncontact differential impedance transducer, which offers true differential for common mode rejection at an economical price

13 Jul 2023

Seamless Digital RT Workflow with DRIVE NDT and D-Tect X from DÜRR NDT

For an optimal digital workflow in radiographic testing (RT), the X-ray inspection software D-Tect X can be integrated with the NDT management software DRIVE NDT.

13 Jul 2023

Using Solar Hydrogen in Metal Oxides as Charge-Transfer Barriers

Climate-neutral hydrogen will be a crucial fuel and raw resource in the future. Water is electrolyzed to produce hydrogen, either indirectly (using a solar panel or wind turbine to provide voltage to the electrolysis cell) or directly (using a photoelectrochemical cell, or PEC cell), where the photoelectrode itself provides the electrical energy for electrolysis.

13 Jul 2023

Mecmesin Expands OmniTest UTM Range

Mecmesin, a renowned global leader in the design and manufacturing of force, materials, and torque testing equipment for quality control, proudly announces the expansion of their OmniTest universal testing machine (UTM) ...

From Mecmesin 12 Jul 2023

An Approach to Develop Cheaper Lithium Discovered

Lithium is turning out to be the new gold, thanks to its increasing applications of lithium-ion batteries in computers, electric cars, and portable devices influencing the price and impacting the supply of the comparatively rare metal.

12 Jul 2023

New Insights Gained Regarding BIC Phenomenon

A study group headed by Professor Junsuk Rho from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. candidates Dongwoo Lee, Jeonghoon Park, and Seokwoo Kim from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) efficiently established bound states for the first time in the continuum via the use of an acoustoelastic coupling structure.

12 Jul 2023

Molten Salt Electrolysis Method Could Revolutionize Steelmaking

Case Western Reserve University chemical engineer Rohan Akolkar is leading a research team working to develop a new zero-carbon, electrochemical process to produce iron metal from ore.

12 Jul 2023

New Mechanism for Magnetic Spin Reorientation Discovered in Kagome Layered Topological Magnet

A team from Ames National Laboratory conducted an in-depth investigation of the magnetism of TbMn6Sn6, a Kagome layered topological magnet. They were surprised to find that the magnetic spin reorientation in TbMn6Sn6 occurs by generating increasing numbers of magnetically isotropic ions as the temperature increases.

12 Jul 2023

New 3D Bioprinting Technology Could Help Target Cancer Cells

For the first time in the world, a three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology has the potential of eradicating cancer cells with the use of the immune cells’ function has been developed.

11 Jul 2023

Revealing How Tin Selenide Adapts to Thermoelectric Performance

Investigators from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory revealed that when the compound tin selenide heats up, atomic-level structural changes occur, allowing it to conduct electricity but not heat.

11 Jul 2023