Heather Hall

Park Systems, a manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopes, presents Park NX-Hybrid WLI, the first fully integrated system that combines Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) with White Light Interferometer (WLI) profilometry. White light interferometry (WLI) is a nondestructive, non-contact, optical measurement technique used to generate 2D and 3D models of surfaces and is now widely used for…

Thermo Fisher Scientific announces innovative proteomics solutions and a series of co-marketing agreements with industry experts, advancing the throughput, comprehensiveness and quality of proteomics workflows for applications such as single-cell studies and translational research. The company will showcase these relationships, as well as new additions to its highly regarded offering of mass spectrometry (MS) and…

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Lab-on-a-Fish is a wireless, miniaturized underwater technology system that provides real-time monitoring of fish and small aquatic species in marine, freshwater and estuarine habitats. The PNNL technology is the first in the world to combine edge computing with wireless acoustic sensing to assess animal behavior (acceleration and gyration); physiology (electrocardiogram and…

Sandy Robert, CAE will join ASM International as executive director, effective January 1, 2022. Robert will be completing this year as CEO of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), where she was hired in 2019 to turn around the association’s business model. During her three-year tenure, she spearheaded membership growth and engagement, significantly increased…

Lt. Governor Karyn Polito and executives from UMass Dartmouth celebrated the announcement of a new $739,936 award from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to support the development of a new research and development laboratory in New Bedford to study biodegradable and ocean-safe plastics. The new Plastics Biodegradation Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth will enable efficient testing of…

From Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute is leading an $8 million project to develop a data exchange platform enabling the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to analyze road conditions in real-time and communicate important travel information to the traveling public, state/local government entities, private sector partners and other stakeholders. In addition to real-time analysis,…

Corning Guardiant is an antimicrobial additive that can be dosed into paints and coatings. Testing performed at the University of Arizona’s microbiology lab show that coatings containing Corning Guardiant can kill 99.9% of germs on coated surfaces, including the virus that causes COVID-19 within two hours. Guardiant uses Corning’s expertise in glass ceramic technology, allowing…

The $30 billion-plus global Li-ion battery market is expected to double in the next five years. Improved cathode materials will enable Li-ion batteries to operate reliably at high capacity and high voltage over repeated cycles without sacrificing performance, safety or cost. However, existing options are hindered by material and performance degradation at high voltage, limiting…

Sofar Ocean, an ocean intelligence platform, announced it has secured a $39 million Series B syndicate round with Union Square Ventures (USV) and the Foundry Group. With this funding, Sofar will further scale its technology platform and grow its team across key regions worldwide. The funding will help the team in its mission of delivering…

GUIDE, from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, is the first technology that enables a medic or EMT to catheterize a central vein or artery rapidly and accurately in a pre-hospital environment and save lives from trauma injuries. GUIDE performs the key step of inserting a needle in the vessel, after which a medic…

Biopharmaceutical laboratories can now benefit from high-quality mass information delivered by Orbitrap technology for molecule attribute monitoring in development and quality control (QC). This offering is a part of a multi-attribute method (MAM) workflow that offers reduced downtime and maintenance and provides seamless method transfers from development to QC. The Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris MX…

From Southwest Research Institute NASA has selected the CubeSat Imaging X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (CubIXSS), led by Southwest Research Institute, to measure the elemental composition of hot, multimillion-degree plasmas in the Sun’s corona – its outermost atmosphere. The nanosatellite is expected to be launched in 2024 as a secondary payload on another satellite launch. CubIXSS will…

The Nortis ParVivo Platform, from Nortis, is a stand out in the rapidly emerging Organ-on-Chip (OOC) field, which enables the engineering of living human tissues in microfluidic devices (chips). These chips are highly valuable for both pharma and academia, both of which are looking for novel technologies that will enable them to move away from…

By Dr. Wesley De Boever, Product Marketing Manager, TESCAN New developments in time-resolved micro-CT allow researchers to study material behaviors in situ as the materials respond dynamically to environmental influences. Dynamic micro-CT, which acquires data continuously, is a significant evolution in micro-CT technology, enabling scientists to capture data from unpredictable events that may be missed…

The first full size lithium-ion battery cells featuring Johnson Matthey’s advanced eLNO cathode technology are being installed in a unique high performance race car. eLNO is a family of nickel-rich cathode materials that safely enables batteries to perform better and charge more quickly while retaining exceptional battery lifetime. The global leader in sustainable technologies partnered…

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Electric Power Research Institute collaborated on GridDamper, a field-deployment-ready technology to mitigate three major categories of oscillations (natural, forced and sub-synchronous) and allow more renewable electricity in power grids. GridDamper adaptively updates its parameters, sensors and actuators to guarantee power grid stability and reliability…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $209 million in funding for 26 new laboratory projects focusing on electric vehicles, advanced batteries and connected vehicles. Advanced, lithium-based batteries play an integral role in 21st century technologies such as electric vehicles, stationary grid storage and defense applications that will be critical to securing America’s clean…

From Sandia National Laboratories Don’t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It’s what’s on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation. For over a year, the avocado-sized vacuum chamber has contained a cloud of atoms at the right conditions for…

BioMS-Ti, from Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Ingrowth Biotech, is a biomedical material that can accelerate the rapid fusion between soft and hard tissues after injuring the cruciate ligament. It shortens recovery time, is sturdy and will not easily come loose – resulting in a second injury, and the high load intensity allows for…

MOBILion Systems will showcase its first commercial High-Resolution Ion Mobility (HRIM) product, MOBIE, at the 69th Annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference. Taking place from October 31 to November 4, the conference is the first in-person ASMS since 2019 and is being held in MOBILion’s backyard – Philadelphia. MOBIE, launched in June 2021,…

Porex, a provider of custom-engineered porous polymer solutions, received a $16.2 million award from the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase production capacity of aerosol-barrier filters used in filtered pipettes for COVID-19 and other infectious disease testing. Porex is a subsidiary of Filtration Group. Across much of 2020, the…

ZEISS announces the opening of its new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Bay Area (ZMCC BA), housed within the ZEISS Innovation Center California, a high-tech building designed to promote customer and employee collaboration. Unique to the industry, the ZMCC BA houses electron, light and X-ray microscopes all in one location supported by resident application experts in…

By Julie Fornaciari, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Titanium is strong and lightweight, boasting the highest strength to weight ratio of any structural metal. But processing it while maintaining a good balance of strength and ductility – the ability of a metal to be drawn out without breaking – is challenging and expensive. As a result,…

Tescan Orsay Holding launches the new Large Volume Workflow for faster failure and defect root-cause analysis in semiconductor manufacturing and materials research. The new approach implements correlative microscopy techniques to provide parallel processing through stand-alone laser ablation and plasma focused ion beam (Plasma FIB) systems. Neither system is idled by the operation of the other.…

With the Turbolab Core, vacuum specialist Leybold is launching a small plug-and-play high vacuum pumping system for research, laboratory and industrial applications. Within the Turbolab series, the compact tabletop unit fills the gap for entry-level vacuum needs that require a clean, dry, stable high and ultra-high vacuum. The Turbolab series is now available in a…