Biodegradable drinking cups or vegetable wrapping foil: the bioplastic known as polylactic acid (PLA) is already a part of our everyday lives.
Producing biodegradable plastic just got cheaper and greener
LIFT project focuses on iron alloys in thin-wall castings
Grede will work with Michigan Technological University, others to bring thin-wall ductile iron castings to high-volume production.
Jeol FE SEM features super hybrid lens design for high resolution imaging
Jeol USA, Peabody, Mass., introduces the 7000 series of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopes with ultrahigh resolution and low-kV/low-vacuum operation for imaging and nano-analysis of structures, surface details, and magnetic samples.
Cadence and Applied Materials collaborate to optimize planarization process
Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., and Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., are collaborating on a development program to optimize the chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) process through silicon characterization and modeling for advanced-node designs at 14 nm and below.
Oxford Instruments launches EBSD detector with speed of 1580 points per second
Oxford Instruments, U.K., has launched NordlysMax3, an EBSD detector that acquires indexes and displays results at 1580 points per second.