EAG Inc., San Diego, announces that it has formed EAG Laboratories, a single entity combining all of its 11 labs, including Evans Analytical Group, ABC Laboratories, Chemir Analytical Services, SEAL Laboratories, Shiva Technologies, NanoScience, Accurel, and MEFAS, among others.
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Congratulations to Mr. Douglas G. Puerta, Director, Aerospace Product Qualification Testing, Element Materials Technology, who has been elected to succeed me as President of TSS.
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Designing a 3D-printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size. Imagine shrinking it smaller than a drop of water, smaller even than a human hair, until it is dwarfed by a common bacterium.
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Fans of Superman surely recall how the “Man of Steel” used immense heat and pressure generated by his bare hands to form a diamond out of a lump of coal.
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The IMS Education Committee, chaired by Laura Moyer, recently sent out a survey to members to assess education/training needs.
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FEI Co., Hillsboro, Ore., released the new Themis Z scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM), an automated STEM that offers the industry leading specifications for image resolution, analytical speed and quality, and light element imaging sensitivity.
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A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., developed a novel way to produce 2D nanosheets by separating bulk materials with nontoxic liquid nitrogen.
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A highly sensitive chemical sensor based on Raman spectroscopy and using nitrogen-doped graphene as a substrate was developed by an international team of researchers working at Penn State.
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Titanium is the leading material for artificial knee and hip joints because it is strong, wear-resistant and nontoxic, but adding gold might make implants even better.
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Friction and drag are commonplace in nature. These phenomena are experienced when riding in an airplane, pairing electrical wiring, or rubbing pieces of sandpaper together.
Continue readingA University of California, Irvine engineer invented a method for analyzing nanowires at temperatures approaching 800°F in first-ever experiments, showing the valuable role the materials could play in converting excess heat from machines and electronics into useable electricity.
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Materials researchers at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, fine-tuned a technique that enables them to apply precisely controlled silica coatings to quantum dot nanorods in one day.
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Engineers are attaching sensors to locusts so they can monitor how the insects sniff out odors.
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The ASM Materials Education Foundation supports educators through a free 40-hour materials science workshop called the ASM Materials Camp®-Teachers.
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Researchers from KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Strasbourg, and CNRS, both in France, discovered a new phosphor that could make next-generation fluorescent and LED lighting even less expensive and more efficient.
Continue readingThe IMS Buehler Technical Paper of Merit award is selected each year by the IMS Buehler Best Paper Award Committee led by Dr. Mike Keeble, U.S. Labs and Technology Manager of Buehler Ltd. Papers are chosen from manuscripts published in Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis (MMA).
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Instruments to be used for training on high precision manufacturing and materials testing techniques
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The next generation of nanosubmarines has been upgraded with tags that fluoresce longer allowing them to be tracked for greater periods while being driven through solutions.
Continue readingResearchers developed a technique for coating polymer implants with a bioactive film that significantly increases bonding between the implant and surrounding bone in an animal model.
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Scientists developed a simulation model to take the guesswork out of calculating the influence of roughness on mechanical properties of a sphere.
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Employees at the Boeing Co. recently celebrated the grand opening of the new 777X Composite Wing Center (CWC) in Everett, Wash.
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Buildings are designed to sway and deform without collapsing in response to earthquake shaking.
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The Materials Science and Engineering Department won the Alumni Cup at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Continue readingThe new strategic alliance brings the complementary strengths of both organizations together to better serve their global members and the community at large.
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Creating the batteries or electronics of the future requires understanding materials that are just a few atoms thick and that change their fundamental physical properties in fractions of a second.
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EOS, Germany, is participating in this year’s Hanover Fair (April 25-29 2016). Within the scope of the Solutions Area Lightweight Design, which is part of “Industrial Supply”—the international leading trade fair for innovative supply and lightweight solutions
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Nature’s toolkit includes its still-matchless ability to effortlessly assemble proteins, membranes, and other complex structures from parts lists of atoms, molecules and particles of various sizes and shapes.
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The premiere of manned flights with the world’s first certified Multicopter, e-volo’s Volocopter VC200, Karlsruhe, Germany, marks a step forward in urban mobility.
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The Henry Clifton Sorby Award is presented annually to recognize lifetime achievement in the field of metallurgy. Recipients are acknowledged for 25 years or more of dedication to research, teaching, or laboratory sales and service.
Continue readingASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, is pleased to announce that Dr. Ursula R. Kattner, FASM, Physical Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., is the 2016 J. Williard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award recipient.
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