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Rice Project Secures Funding to Transform Advanced Materials Research

Boris Yakobson, a materials scientist at Rice University, has received three grants totaling $4,140,611 over several years from two federal organizations to study challenging elements of the production, performance, and dynamics of advanced materials.

9 Jul 2024

Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles Enhance Charge Transfer for Light-Driven Reactions

Solar has emerged in recent years as the fastest growing renewable energy source in the United States, spurred in part by great improvements in technology that help turn light from the sun into electricity more efficiently.

9 Jul 2024

Virginia Tech Researchers Transform Food Waste into Eco-Friendly Bioplastics

Extraordinary amounts of energy, water, and capital are put into food systems. However, anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of the food that is produced ends up in landfills in the United States.

9 Jul 2024

Ni-B-PTFE Nanocomposite Co-deposition Over 2A12 Aluminum Alloy

In a recent article published in Materials, researchers demonstrated the chemical plating of a Ni-B-PTFE nanocomposite on 2A12 aluminum alloy, enhancing wear and corrosion resistance for textile industry applications.

By Nidhi Dhull 9 Jul 2024

Nearfield Instruments’ QUADRA® In-Line Semiconductor Metrology System Features New ‘Lightning Mode™’; System Fully Validated for High-volume Manufacturing

Nearfield Instruments B.V., a provider of groundbreaking process control metrology solutions for advanced semiconductor devices, today launched “Lightning Mode™”, a new feature for QUADRA®, which is...

From Nearfield Instruments 9 Jul 2024

Resonac Announces New US-JOINT Consortium; Ten Partners to Collaborate on Next-Generation Semiconductor Packaging in Silicon Valley

Resonac Corporation today unveiled a new consortium of ten partners, called “US-JOINT,” for its semiconductor back-end process R&D in Silicon Valley. The ten American and Japanese semiconductor materials ...

From Resonac Corporation 9 Jul 2024

Emerson SolaHD Industrial Rack Mount On-Line UPS Improves User Interface and Lead Time

Emerson has announced the new Series D update to the family of proven SolaHD industrial rack mount on-line uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs). The new SolaHD S4KD Series replaces the current S4KC Series, offering significant user interface improvements and other design upgrades to increase reliability and product availability.

From Emerson 9 Jul 2024

New Design for Highly Sensitive and Fast DUV Detection

In a study that was published in Advanced Materials, Prof. Shibing Long and his colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) proposed a novel way to create a high-energy photon detector with fast response times and high sensitivity by combining the photoconductive and interface pyroelectric effects using a polycrystal Ga-rich GaOx (PGR-GaOx) Schottky photodiode.

8 Jul 2024

New Method Unveils Organic Molecules in Ice

In a recent study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, Professors Guoqing Zhang, Shiyong Liu, Xiaoguo Zhou, and Xuepeng Zhang from the University of Science and Technology of China devised a method for detecting water-ice microstructures by using organic phosphorescent probes and phosphorescence spectroscopy.

8 Jul 2024

New Design for High-Energy, Low-Fluorine Lithium-Metal Batteries

Scientists at ETH Zurich have drastically lowered the quantity of fluorine—which is bad for the environment—needed to stabilize these batteries. The range of electric vehicles could be greatly increased by developing a new electrolyte design for lithium metal batteries.

8 Jul 2024