Heather Hall

Electron Diffraction (ED) is on the verge of a major breakthrough and ELDICO Scientific’s Electron Diffractometer is here for it. The diffractometer directly identifies previously unsolvable structures from nano-crystalline materials which today are difficult or impossible to crystallize or, due to their nature and size, cannot be crystallized by conventional methods. For example, in drug…

LLNL researchers have used multi-material 3D printing to create tailored gradient refractive index glass optics that could make for better military specialized eyewear and virtual reality goggles. The new technique could achieve a variety of conventional and unconventional optical functions in a flat glass component (with no surface curvature), offering new optical design versatility in…

By Manette Fisher, [email protected] For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology and creatively working with companies, Sandia National Laboratories won six prestigious regional 2020 Federal Laboratory Consortium awards. The awards for the Mid-Continent and Far West regions put a spotlight on Sandia successes in transferring technology, partnerships…

Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the new Thermo Scientific Tundra Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM), a groundbreaking instrument that extends cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to more scientists by delivering ease of use at an affordable price. The Tundra uses artificial intelligence (AI), guided automation and new loader technology to dramatically simplify the microscope’s use, extending cryo-EM…

Before PPG’s Clean-Surface Technology, interior wall paints did not deliver the washability that people desire in a paint, despite big promises and even bigger price tags. Some do well on water-based stains or on oil-based stains, but none did well in resisting both types of stains. Homeowners clean their walls and are left with shiny…

A-LabInsider’s new application lists all the academic life science labs in Europe, filtering through them to make it easier for small and medium biotech companies to discover compatible labs to do business with. The concept was to create a central place for biotech SMEs to find academic labs through the content of available websites and…

Written by Daniel Ackerman Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google search results. Soon, deep learning could also check your vitals or set your thermostat. MIT researchers have developed a system that could bring deep learning neural networks to new — and much smaller —…

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Flow-Through Microelectrode Cell for Precision Electroanalytical Chemistry provides the simplest, fastest, most affordable, precise and comprehensive tool for analyzing electrochemical systems that employ solid electrolytes. Because of its cost and performance advantages, this testing innovation can accelerate development of electrochemical technologies that meet critical global needs, particularly electrical energy storage and…

Southwest Research Institute has received a four-year, $7,239,342 contract from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to develop air taxi technology to test the design capabilities of artificial intelligence-augmented design systems. The project is part of DARPA’s Symbiotic Design for Cyber Physical Systems program. Air taxis are short-range electric aircraft…

By Chris Adam, [email protected]  A Purdue University innovator and his team are among the quarterfinalists in a national solar desalination innovation contest. They received the recognition for a technology to use solar power to purify high salinity water, such as treating desalination brine or produced water from oil and gas extraction. The team includes two…

PerkinElmer, today introduced the LC 300 platform and SimplicityChrom software, bringing together advanced high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) capabilities with intuitive instrument control and data analysis. The new solution accelerates throughput, streamlines testing and enables user-friendly operation to enhance productivity for labs in multiple industries working to meet quality and…

Atomic spectroscopy is the determination of elemental composition by its electromagnetic or mass spectrum. The study of the electromagnetic spectrum of elements is called Optical Atomic Spectroscopy. Electrons exist in energy levels within an atom. These levels have well defined energies and electrons moving between them must absorb or emit energy equal to the difference…

Carbon nanotubes exhibit remarkable properties such as mechanical strength 100x that of steel at 1/6 the weight and could revolutionize numerous industries. Unfortunately, existing manufacturing approaches have not adequately lowered the production cost of this game-changing material, preventing mainstream adoption. SkyNano overcame this limitation by creating a manufacturing process that significantly reduces carbon nanotube production…

Dow (NYSE:DOW) announced the winners of the 2020 Packaging Innovation Awards recognizing breakthrough packaging achievements in design, technology, sustainability and user experience. The highest honor, the Diamond Award, went to Henkel’s  Social Plastic Ecosystem in collaboration with Plastic Bank. To create a new line of sustainable cosmetic packaging, Henkel conducted a pilot program that utilized recycled…

The Agilent Vaya Handheld Raman Spectrometer operates using a subset of Raman Spectroscopy known as Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) which enables users to analyze objects in a variety of containers from amber bottles to multi-layer paper sacks without opening the container. It has been designed from the ground up to be used by pharmaceutical…

Park Systems and NanoScientific Publications announce NanoScientific Symposium Asia, which will be held virtually, Nov. 24-25, 2020. The event will help nanoscience researchers and scientists catch up on the latest studies being formed using SPM and is sponsored by Physics World and Nanotechnology World Association. “NanoScientific Symposium Asia is a valuable opportunity for people doing…

Dartmouth Engineering Professor Zi Chen has received a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), to lead a three-year research project on the International Space Station (ISS). Chen’s proposal was one of just three selected from institutions across the country as…

The University of Oxford has joined forces with Thermo Fisher Scientific to ramp up the university’s capacity to deliver COVID-19 testing data. The new rapid testing laboratory and jointly developed Thermo Scientific OmnipathTM Combi SARS-CoV-2 IgG ELISA test detects and quantifies antibodies against the coronavirus and increases the University of Oxford’s testing capacity to up…

Controllable Hydro-Reactive Magnesium Alloy, from Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (MIRDC), transforms the ecology of existing water-reactive magnesium alloys, creating a breakthrough in new technologies that can be controlled and produce hydrogen without electricity consumption. By calculating the atomic ratio of magnesium, zinc and calcium (Mg-Zn-Ca) in the magnesium alloy, using Pascal’s triangle computational…

PerkinElmer. today launched its newest ChemDraw application, ChemOffice+ Cloud, to simplify, facilitate and accelerate chemistry communication workflows. The ChemDraw platform is the leading chemistry drawing tool trusted around the world by scientists in commercial, government and academic lab settings across a number of research areas including life sciences, enviromental and materials. With the ChemOffice+ Cloud…

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and its partners AMD, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks have installed a new high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with memory and data storage capabilities optimized for data-intensive COVID-19 research and pandemic response. Funded by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the “big memory” cluster, called Mammoth, will be used at LLNL…

Data growth and collaboration needs have turned data management into a complex and unpleasant undertaking. Often data lives on a filesystem, its context is in someone’s memory and its discussion spread in multiple email chains. This fragmentation curtails data use or reuse, impedes progress and reduces knowledge retention over time.  SeedMeLab, developed by San Diego…

By Aliyah Kovner Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have achieved unprecedented success in modifying a microbe to efficiently produce a compound of interest using a computational model and CRISPR-based gene editing. Their approach could dramatically speed up the research and development phase for new biomanufacturing processes and get cutting-edge bio-based products such…

Engineers at Southwest Research Institute were able to interfere with the charging process of an electric vehicle (EV) by simulating a malicious attack as part of an automotive cybersecurity research initiative. The SwRI team reverse-engineered the signals and circuits on an EV and a J1772 charger, the most common interface for managing EV charging in…

PerkinElmer (NYSE: PKI) announced today that EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company, has launched the Anti-SARS-CoV-2 QuantiVac ELISA (IgG) to quantify IgG antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 S1 antigen. The assay is available for countries accepting the CE mark, and the Company plans to file a request for this product with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for…