Its operation principle is completely different from conventional devices, which opens up the possibility of a significantly reduced energy input requirement….
Microfluidic devices are allowing microelectronic engineers to shrink laboratories to the size of a computer chip. By ferrying reagents through a series of…
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring…
Unlike other processes, the laser beam is able to apply energy to a limited space in order to melt the glass solder precisely, thus generating a bond with…
Because conventional coating processes are increasingly coming up against their technological limits and are often too costly, the Fraunhofer Institute for…
Blue I Water Technologies, provider of advanced water analysis and control solutions, continues to expand operations in South America, China, India, Europe,…
By splitting the laser beam into several beamlets, the output of high-power ultra-short-pulse lasers can be fully utilized for microprocessing, which delivers…
In a nutshell: – EMBL-EBI researchers have tested a reliable and scalable method for using synthetic DNA to store data – DNA is a…
Growth of new materials is the cornerstone of materials science – a highly inter-disciplinary field of science that touches every aspect of our lives from…
Vacuum processes also offer some advantages in the coating of glass or metals, for example in preventing unwanted oxidation processes.Many of these processes…
The findings, which defy expectations and theory, could help scientists deliberately induce the high levels of damage needed to study extreme states of matter…
A Northwestern University research team has found a way to manufacture single laser devices that are the size of a virus particle and that operate at room…
Materials boasting a “tunable” refractive index have been developed within the past few years, and they show tremendous potential for photovoltaic…
A research team at the University of Nevada, Reno has developed a new environmentally-friendly coating for aluminum to replace the carcinogenic chromate…
It can be used not only for polishing surfaces, but also for rounding edges and for removing burrs e.g. split lines on parts formed by injection or compression…
For such applications fabrication of thick AlN coating by thermal spray into the chosen material surface considered to be suitable solution. However, it is…