Team examines operating limits in solid-state batteries to improve range of EVs

Published: November 17, 2020

A collaboration among researchers at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.), the University of Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia), the Advanced Photon Source, (Lemont, Ill.), and Toyota Research Institute North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America R&D (Ann Arbor, Mich.), examined operating limits and failure mechanisms in a family of solid-state batteries based on thiophosphate materials.

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Hitachi High-Tech strengthens its photonics capabilities to serve global technology markets

Published: November 17, 2020

Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo, acquires global leader VLC Photonics S.L., Valencia, Spain, adding photonic integration engineering, design, and test to its portfolio of services.

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Westcoast Energy fined for faulty stress corrosion monitoring that led to blast

Published: November 17, 2020

Westcoast Energy Inc., Calgary, Canada, has been fined for failing to prevent a fiery pipeline blast northeast of Prince George, B.C., in 2018 that led to natural gas shortages in the province through the winter.

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Penn State research lays groundwork for ultra-thin, energy efficient photodetector on glass

Published: November 12, 2020

Researchers at Penn State, University Park, Pa., published a new paper in ACS Nano integrating photodetectors with durable Gorilla glass, the material used for smart phone screens manufactured by Corning Incorporated.

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Picosun’s cluster ALD solutions enable next generation power electronics

Published: November 12, 2020

Picosun Group, Espoo, Finland, the leading supplier of AGILE Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film coating solutions for global industries, strengthens its position in power electronics market with several cluster ALD system sales to prominent manufacturers in Europe, USA, and Asia.

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Intel Wins US Government Advanced Packaging Project

Published: November 12, 2020

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Intel Federal LLC, Santa Clara, Calif., the second phase of its State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integration Prototype (SHIP) program.

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Nanomotors controlled with laser light

Published: November 12, 2020

A team of scientists led by researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo-IIS), Tokyo, Japan, designed novel linear nanomotors that can be moved in controlled directions using light.

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Spectro introduces Spectrogreen TI ICP-OES analyzer

Published: November 12, 2020

Spectro Analytical Instruments, Kleve, Germany, introduces the newest version of its inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) analyzer: the Spectrogreen TI, featuring Spectro’s proven twin interface (TI).

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Nano coatings with many functions: a new class of organic gradient nanomaterials

Published: November 12, 2020

Materials scientists at the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel (CAU) in Kiel, Germany, synthesize nanoscale gradient copolymers with contradictory properties for the first time.

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Researchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief in energy applications

Published: October 29, 2020

The U.S. Department of Energy has a team of researchers exploring how a weld is put together atom by atom in order to unlock the key to making crack-free welds. The goal is to investigate the performance of welds used to build large thermal energy storage tanks at concentrating solar plants—facilities with vast networks of mirrors used to collect solar energy, some stretching several million square feet in size.

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