Actuator Solutions GmbH (ASG), Germany, a subsidiary of Alfmeier Präzision and SAES Getters, has won the 2014 German Innovation Award for its development of a wide range of applications for shape memory devices.
Diffusion and temperature: Water, pen ink, and vinegar
Watch how pen ink diffuses in two cups of water: One with cold water and the other with hot. The pen ink is not visible in the hot water glass while the cold water glass looks purple/blue. Add vinegar and watch what happens!
Replacing stainless steel?
HAM-LET, UK, a leading global manufacturer of instrumentation valves and fittings for industrial and high purity applications, launched PuRight—a new, enhanced stainless steel 316L material at Semicon West earlier this month.
New metamaterial gives light a one-way ticket
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., built a silver, glass, and chromium nanostructure that can all but stop visible light cold in one direction while giving it a pass in the other.
Hollow-fiber MOF membranes could cut energy use
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, developed a microfluidic technique for fabricating a new class of metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes inside hollow polymer fibers that are just a few hundred microns in diameter.