Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it will ship four VFS furnaces from its facility in Souderton, Pa., to sites in Washington, Ohio, North Carolina, and South Carolina, primarily for heat treating medical devices and aerospace structures.
NIST’s Ravi Attota shows how Through-Focus Scanning Optical Microscopy (TSOM) able to detect tiny differences in the 3D shapes of computer chip components, revealing variations less than 1 nm.
For the first time, scientists have discovered how to produce ultra-thin “diamond nanothreads” that promise extraordinary properties, including strength and stiffness greater than that of today’s strongest nanotubes and polymers.
Insulation for homes of the future may be harvested from fields of kenaf, an alternative to fiberglass
Researchers at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., are developing a robotic fabric that moves and contracts and is embedded with sensors, an approach that could bring “active clothing” and a new class of “soft” robots.
