Scientists working with precision instruments know that power cords and cabling, vibrations from air-handling units and other factors can cause epic imaging failures. The challenge is eliminating the effects of these essential elements from the laboratory. That’s why scientists and engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) worked with the building’s architects to design a space within the new Energy Sciences Center that would be protected from these intrusions.
Centorr Vacuum industries, Nashua, NH, has announced that they are building six high-temperature high-vacuum furnaces for precision heat treating, brazing, and annealing applications. The furnaces are from their Workhorse product line.
Nitrex Metal, Canada, has sold a second NX-815 E furnace to Elvial, one of the largest aluminum extrusion companies in Greece. This will help ELVIAL meet the needs created by their plant expansion and to increase their manufacturing capacity.
Measuring what happens during the collision of celestial bodies or at the Earth’s core is obviously not very practical. But researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have now observed for the first time how iron’s atomic structure deforms to accommodate the stress from the pressures and temperatures that occur just outside of the inner core.
MIT physicists and colleagues have demonstrated an exotic form of superconductivity in a new material the team synthesized only about a year ago. Further, the scientists found that the same material can potentially be manipulated to exhibit yet another, equally exotic form of superconductivity.
