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Save Up To 80% Energy Costs With The Micron Pulvis Sub-Micron Mill

Capable of producing finer particle sizes than a jet mill and with energy consumption typically eighty percent less than other mills, the Pulvis offers an efficient alternative to impact type mills, when it comes to ultra-fine milling.

From Hosokawa Micron Ltd 9 Dec 2016

Research on Graphene Opens up Miniaturization of Biological and Chemical Sensors

A team of researchers at The University of Manchester and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have demonstrated a technique to chemically alter small regions of graphene with high precision, resulting in extreme miniaturization of biological and chemical sensors.

8 Dec 2016

GF Machining Solutions and Sensofar Metrology Agree Strategic Partnership

GF Machining Solutions (a division of Georg Fischer) and Sensofar Metrology (a division of Sensofar-Tech, SL, based near Barcelona, Spain) have agreed to a new strategic partnership.

From Sensofar Metrology 1 Dec 2016

Chips Made of Layers Just Three Atoms Thick Could be the Future of Electronics

For more than 50 years, silicon chipmakers have developed innovative methods to switch electricity off and on, by producing the digital zeroes and ones to encode pictures, words, movies and other forms of data.

30 Nov 2016

New Solar Nanotech-Powered Clothing can Revolutionize Wearable Technology

Inspired by Marty McFly’s self-lacing Nikes in the movie Back to the Future Part II, a UCF scientist has developed filaments that are capable of harvesting and storing solar energy, and can be woven into fabric.

15 Nov 2016

New Research Facilitates Tuning of Thermal Conductivity of 2D Materials

A research team has discovered a surprising way to direct the thermal conductivity of 2D materials, which will assist electronics designers to dissapate heat in electronic gadgets that utilize these materials.

24 Oct 2016

ORNL Team Uses Nano-Spike Catalysts to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have devised an electrochemical process that uses miniature spikes of copper and carbon to convert the common greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into ethanol. Their process involves catalysis science and nanofabrication and their finding happened by chance.

13 Oct 2016

Nanoscale Engineering Technique can Transform Particles into “LEGO-Like” Blocks

A nanoscale engineering technique that can transform small particles into “LEGO-like” modular building blocks has been developed by scientists. The research work, which was headed by the University of Melbourne promises to be useful in nano- and micro-scale applications such as chemical sensing, energy storage and drug delivery.

12 Oct 2016

Researchers Document Water Molecular Dipoles Alignment

Researchers from MIPT and teams in Russia and a few other European nations are the first to realize and record the phenomenon of water molecular dipoles alignment. The researchers achieved this by confining water molecules in nanocages inside a beryl crystal.

6 Oct 2016

Nano-Optical Researchers Provide Insights into Performance of Newly Developed Plasmonic Grating Structures

University of Arkansas researchers have discovered that a newly developed plasmonic fabrication capability and design can improve the performance of biosensors, solar cells and photodetectors.

22 Sep 2016