From Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Two years after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided a model of nearly every building in America, commercial partners are using the tool for tasks ranging from designing energy-efficient buildings and cities to linking energy efficiency to real estate value and risk. International companies like Google…
DuPont debuts Micromax brand for microcircuit and component materials products
DuPont announces the launch of a new brand, Micromax, that will encompass the products formerly under the Microcircuit and Component Materials brand. Micromax products are used in a wide variety of electronics applications — from automotive, passive components, and 5G communications to healthcare and consumer goods. “Micromax aims to be the leading brand for electronic…
SwRI celebrates 75 years of service to humankind
From Southwest Research Institute: On September 19, Southwest Research Institute celebrated its 75th anniversary. SwRI began in 1947 as a ranch dedicated to scientific livestock production and has since grown into a worldwide leader in research efforts, from deep sea to deep space, for the benefit of humankind. Today, SwRI is one of San Antonio’s…
DOWSIL Immersion Cooling Technology improves data centers’ sustainability and efficiency
Dow has introduced DOWSIL Immersion Cooling Technology, a next-generation solution for cooling hyperscale cloud and enterprise data centers with optimized efficiency and sustainability. Award-winning DOWSIL Immersion Cooling Technology offers a revolutionary approach to thermal management and sustainability for fast-growing data centers in a new era of high-speed, high-volume data communications. Winner of R&D 100 Award…
New additive technology protects paper products from food liquids and oils
AGC Chemicals Americas introduces FibraLAST non-fluorinated sizing additives that protect paper products from both water and food oils. These patent-pending grades are designed as alternatives to traditional sizing products. This new barrier technology is suitable for molded, formed fiber and cardboard products such as fast-casual bowls, plates, containers and pizza boxes. FibraLAST grades prevent the bleed-through…
New digital corrosion-resistant programmable stirring hot plates
Torrey Pines Scientific, Inc. announces its EchoTherm Model HS70 corrosion-resistant fully programmable digital stirring hot plates. These units are designed with a purge port for infusing an inert gas, such as lab air, into the chassis of the unit. This positive pressure inside the chassis causes the gas to flow out of any openings and…
Ultrathin device could replace a roomful of equipment
From Sandia National Laboratory: An ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing and encryption technologies remarkably smaller and more powerful by helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, according to new research recently published in the journal Science. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the Max Planck Institute for the Science…
The TrilliumSeriesTM Adiabatic Cooler combines energy efficiency and low water use
Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC) announces the release of its new TrilliumSeries Adiabatic Cooler. This adiabatic cooler is suitable for applications that demand a combination of energy efficiency and limited water use. BAC’s innovative design maximizes both water and energy efficiency, ultimately minimizing costs. In addition, the TrilliumSeries Cooler is designed to make installation and ongoing…
Massachusetts governor awards $3.5M R&D grant for new Northeastern University quantum facility
On Wednesday, September 7, the Baker-Polito Administration visited Northeastern University’s Innovation Campus in Burlington for the announcement of a new $3.5 million grant for the Experiential Quantum Advancement Laboratories (EQUAL), a nearly $10 million project to advance the emerging quantum sensing and related technology sectors in the state. The Northeastern-led project will establish new partnerships…
Park Systems acquires Accurion
Park Systems Corp. announces that it has acquired Accurion GmbH, a privately held company that develops and manufactures imaging spectroscopic ellipsometers and active vibration isolations. This acquisition adds to Park’s portfolio of atomic force microscopy and white-light interferometric microscopy. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Goettingen, Germany, Accurion GmbH has pioneered…
SwRI, Tec de Monterrey collaborate to advance sustainable manufacturing
From Southwest Research Institute Leaders of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec de Monterrey), a private, nonprofit, independent university based in Monterrey, Mexico, launched a new research initiative to advance sustainable manufacturing practices that protect the environment while developing materials and technology. SwRI President and CEO Adam Hamilton, P.E., and Dr. Guillermo…
Finland and Singapore’s National Quantum Office ink MoU to strengthen quantum technology research cooperation
The National Quantum Office of Singapore, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, IQM Quantum Computers and CSC – IT Center for Science (Finland) agree to explore and promote research and development collaboration in the areas of quantum technologies. Under the MoU, the parties aim to accelerate the development of quantum technology hardware components, algorithms and…
The role of artificial intelligence in drug discovery
By Haydn Boehm, Director of Product Marketing, Dotmatics Despite the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), most industry insiders know that the use of machine learning (ML) in drug discovery is nothing new. For more than a decade, researchers have used computational techniques for many purposes, such as finding hits, modeling drug-protein interactions, and predicting reaction…
Thermo Fisher Scientific showcases latest innovations to improve workflows
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is showcasing a new mass spectrometry instrument and consumables that enable biopharmaceutical and proteomics customers to drive scientific breakthroughs and solve analytical challenges. The company will showcase these innovations during the International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC), August 27-September 2, 2022, Booth 6, in the Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre (MECC), Maastricht,…
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s largest single-use technology manufacturing site opens in Greater Nashville
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has opened its largest single-use technology manufacturing site in Greater Nashville. The $105 million, 400,000-ft2 facility enables the company to help meet rapidly growing demand for the bioprocessing materials needed to produce vaccines and breakthrough therapies for cancer and other diseases. This new site is part of Thermo Fisher’s $650 million…
Five tactics for upgrading your reporting process
By Jesse Harris, Marketing Communications Specialist, ACD/Labs Reporting is not a glamorous part of pharmaceutical and chemical research and manufacturing. Filling out forms, compiling information, and reviewing data — completing reports is tedious, stressful and error-prone. This is especially true when working with analytical chemistry data since it must be processed and displayed in a…
R&D 100 2021 winner of the day: Shadow Figment
Shadow Figment, developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, software defends critical infrastructure and operational systems against devastating cyberattacks using interactive decoys mapped to real devices. Decoys convince attackers they’re making progress by sending real-time, plausible operational signals. With the attacker safely preoccupied, Shadow Figment alerts defenders and gathers information to respond appropriately — without affecting…
Chung-Ang University researchers breathe life into sensors with versatile gas masks
As technology progresses, devices are getting smaller, low-cost and more efficient. The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) has made researchers explore ways to make sensors more compact and portable. In a new study, researchers from Chung-Ang University, Korea have developed a device that is operable via breathing and can, therefore, be integrated into gas…
Tech companies team up to detect defects in manufacturing with quantum computing
Multiverse Computing, a quantum computing solution company, and IKERLAN, a technology transfer company, have released the results of a joint research study that detected defects in manufactured car pieces via image classification by quantum artificial vision systems. The research team developed a quantum-enhanced kernel method for classification on universal gate-based quantum computers as well as…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Secure-Firmware Over-the-Air (S-FOTA)
Sandia National Laboratories’s S-FOTA uses an active authentication Digitally Unclonable Function (DUF) to consolidate, simplify and enhance the integrity and authenticity of firmware updates. It reduces the cost of deploying, managing, securing the firmware by eliminating the complexity of existing services. DUF technology is used to authenticate the firmware sender’s identity that is unique to…
Shimadzu’s new spectrometer provides high-speed, high-resolution detection
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces the EDX-7200 energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer for fast, accurate detection and analysis of elements in samples. The EDX-7200 fluorescence spectrometer is equipped with a high-resolution silicon drift detector (SDD) to achieve a higher count rate and detection efficiency than its predecessor models. The EDX-7200 incorporates a high-count-rate SDD and a…
2021 R&D 100 winner of the day: QED: Quantum Ensured Defense of the Smart Electric Grid
Quantum-Ensured Defense of the Smart Electric Grid (QED), Los Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and EPB is a new approach for electric grid security using quantum information. This technique, based on cutting-edge quantum science and network security, uses quantum communications to authenticate and encrypt power grid control signals, protecting it from any…
Rensselaer researchers to focus on improving life and efficiency of nuclear reactors
Rensselaer Professor Jie Lian has been awarded $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Nuclear Energy University Research Program (NEUP) to conduct research and develop new materials that will make advanced nuclear reactors more resilient and economically efficient. Dr. Lian, the principal investigator of the project, will be joined by collaborators…
Torrey Pines Scientific’s EchoTherm HPLC Column Oven with temperature control
Torrey Pines Scientific, Inc. announces its new EchoTherm HPLC Column Oven Model CO20. The temperature range is from room temperature to 90.0° C readable and settable to 0.1° C. The PID temperature control software regulates temperatures to ±0.1° C. Temperature accuracy and stability are ±0.1º C with a stable temperature indicator lamp on the front…
R&D 100 winner of the day: ThermalTracker-3D
ThermalTracker-3D, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is the only known avian tracking system equipped with 3D tracking capability via thermal cameras, providing the most comprehensive information needed for planned offshore wind farms to determine if birds and bats are flying at heights where they are at risk of turbine blade collision. The 3D capability captures detailed…