Laird Thermal Systems has released its next generation of eco-friendly recirculating chillers for precise temperature control of analytical, medical and industrial equipment. The Nextreme Recirculating Chiller platform features high-quality components, environmentally friendly refrigerants, low-noise components and a user-friendly operator interface at a standard price. The new chiller utilizes high-performance variable speed motors for noise reduction,…
Biological Safety Cabinets provide contained work area for research, etc.
The Purair BIO Class II, Type A2 Biological Safety Cabinets (BSCs) provide a primary containment work area for life science research, cell culture processing, and other applications where protection of the user, the work product, and the environment, and mitigation of cross-contamination on the work surface are needed. Biosafety in the laboratory is critical when…
Chemical-resistant canopy hoods
Canopy hoods are designed to collect and exhaust corrosive vapors, heat, steam and odors when mounted over areas with water baths, hot plates or portable equipment. Canopies are available in wall, island and corner canopy models. Canopy hoods are available in stainless steel or fiberglass. Manufactured of molded one-piece composite resin, fiberglass canopy hoods are…
ELGA launches the PURELAB Quest water purification system
ELGA LabWater North America, a Veolia Water Technologies company, announces the launch of the PURELAB Quest, a laboratory water system that delivers water for the widest range of lab applications. Prestige labs in academia, government and industry will all benefit from PURELAB Quest’s contribution to research. The PURELAB Quest’s unique design dispenses all three types…
PerkinElmer launches solutions to streamline analysis for a variety of labs
PerkinElmer, a company committed to innovating for a healthier world, has expanded its analysis and automation portfolio for quality, safety and content testing. Geared for pharmaceutical, semiconductor, biomonitoring, food, materials and academia labs, the new offerings are designed to help streamline workflows, sharpen insights and meet regulations and include: NexION 5000 Multi-Quadruple ICP-MS – for…
HPLC column oven controls 30 cm x 3/8-in. column to 0.1°C from room temperature to 90.0°C
Torrey Pines Scientific introduces 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 ±0.1ºC with a stable temperature indicator lamp on the front panel that lights when the target…
VSE Balance Enclosure for critical procedures involving powders and liquids
The VSE is offered in 24, 36 and 48-in. widths to accommodate an analytical balance and other small-scale lab processes. Constructed of chemical-resistant metal framing and 1/4-in.-thick clear acrylic side panels and viewing sash. Efficient air flow design with airfoil and bypass, directs contaminates to baffled exhaust thereby providing superior air flow and containment performance…
MRIGlobal continues support of global health, launches new line of custom mobile laboratories
Epidemics and disasters require nimble response and specialized expertise. For nearly 20 years, MRIGlobal has been engineering, deploying and staffing modular, portable laboratories for accurate infectious disease detection, surveillance and response. Now, new versions of mobile laboratories are available to address a myriad of biological and chemical threats, with improved features. MRIGlobal’s mobile laboratory product…
Ultra-Low Vibration Lab facilitates nanoengineering discoveries
By Steve Varma, Operations Manager, Minus K Technology The Ultra-Low Vibration Lab is a part of the new Center of Excellence in Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering (NAMSE) – a recent addition to the G.G. Brown Laboratories on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Noel Perkins, former associate chair for…
Modular cleanlabs feature modular construction
Modular Clean Labs feature a modular construction design that is cost effective and time efficient compared to traditional construction. An entire laboratory workspace is pre-engineered including the structure and the lab furniture/fume hoods to outfit the interior. Modular Clean Labs wall panels have a white fiberglass surface for chemical resistance and excellent light reflectivity. Because…
A graphene innovation that is music to your ears
Just over 15 years since a couple of researchers in the U.K. used adhesive tape to isolate single atomic layers of carbon, known as graphene, from a chunk of graphite, their Nobel Prize-winning discovery has fueled a revolution in ultrathin materials R&D. Graphene and other atomically thin “2D” materials exhibit exotic properties that researchers hope…
R&D 100 winner plays role in cruise ship evacuation
In 2016, the Containerized Bio-Containment System (CBCS), developed by Kansas City-based MRIGlobal — with support from HHI Corp., GPA Services L.L.C., the U.S. State Department, and The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program — was named one of the R&D 100 winners. The system is a first-of-its-kind, flyable medical transport unit and features full biocontainment. It…
Cryptographic “tag of everything” could protect the supply chain
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office To combat supply chain counterfeiting, which can cost companies billions of dollars annually, MIT researchers have invented a cryptographic ID tag that’s small enough to fit on virtually any product and verify its authenticity. A 2018 report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates about $2 trillion…
Rice, Tennessee labs shrink laser-induced graphene for flexible electronics
You don’t need a big laser to make laser-induced graphene (LIG). Scientists at Rice University, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are using a very small visible beam to burn the foamy form of carbon into microscopic patterns. The labs of Rice chemist James Tour, which discovered the…
Low-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet
By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office For some infants, a wet diaper is cause for an instant, vociferous demand to be changed, while other babies may be unfazed and happy to haul around the damp cargo for lengthy periods without complaint. But if worn too long, a wet diaper can cause painful rashes, and…
MKS Unveils New Spectra-Physics Broadly-Tunable Ultrafast Laser for Multiphoton Imaging
MKS Instruments introduces its Spectra-Physics® InSight® X3+, the fourth generation of its broadly tunable, ultrafast laser platform, delivering industry-leading power, a 50% increase over the previous generation, at bioimaging wavelengths for brighter and deeper imaging. The new laser is built on the proven InSight laser platform with hundreds of peer-reviewed publications, the largest installed base…
Lightning protection for laboratories prevents lost research and equipment
By Jennifer Morgan and Michael Chusid “What about the mice?” That was the first response of a postdoctoral fellow when asked what a lightning strike could do to her lab at a major biomedical research institute. In addition to electrocution, fire, and other animal welfare concerns, she is worried about the thousands of hours…
Sensing technology could improve machine learning precision for manufacturing, electric vehicles, smart homes
The same small piece of technology that one day may help train welding robots and monitor electric vehicles could enable energy companies to better power smart homes and factories. Purdue University innovators have developed a sensing module that works with machine learning for applications ranging from electric cars to manufacturing and home design. The technology…
Study finds doctor-pharmacist partnership significantly reduces patient harm
Medication errors are among the most common incidents reported in hospitals, often occurring at hospital admission, with a new study led by Monash University and Alfred Health researchers evaluating a collaborative model to reduce medication errors and length of hospital stay. The study of 8648 patients found that having a partnered pharmacist medication charting* (PPMC)…
Enclosures for Lab Automation and Robotics
Enclosures are designed to isolate liquid handling workstations, HPLC equipment, sample weighing, high throughput screening, powders handling and other lab automated processes by providing exhaust air systems or HEPA filtered clean workstations. Enclosures are built to protect personnel from hazardous fumes, and processes from Lab contamination. Utilizing a flexible, modular design, HEMCO Enclosures are engineered…
Organic Laser Diodes Move From Dream to Reality
Researchers from Japan have demonstrated that a long-elusive kind of laser diode based on organic semiconductors is indeed possible, paving the way for the further expansion of lasers in applications such as biosensing, displays, healthcare, and optical communications. Long considered a holy grail in the area of light-emitting devices, organic laser diodes use carbon-based organic…
Mathematically Designed Graphene Possesses Superior Electrocatalytic Activity
An international research group has improved graphene’s ability to catalyze the “hydrogen evolution reaction,” which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. They designed a mathematically predicted graphene electrocatalyst, and confirmed its performance using high resolution electrochemical microscopy and computational modelling. The findings were published in the journal Advanced Science.…
Proton Beam Energy Doubled with Colliding Lasers
Researchers from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg present a new method, which can double the energy of a proton beam produced by laser-based particle accelerators. The breakthrough could lead to more compact, cheaper equipment that could be useful for many applications, including proton therapy. Proton therapy involves firing a beam…
Plumbene, Cousin of Graphene, Created by Researchers
Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene’s cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because of their unique potential as useful topological insulators. In particular, the up-to-now purely theoretical possibility of a lead-based 2-D honeycomb material, called plumbene, has generated much attention because it has the largest spin-orbit interaction, due to lead’s orbital…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Undergoes Tests in Cleanroom
NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft has completed acoustic and thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The acoustic test of the spacecraft that will carry the Mars 2020 rover to a soft touchdown in Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, is the best Earthly approximation for what the spacecraft will endure…