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Electrochemical carbon cleaning

Electrochemical carbon cleaning

Added: 26 Jun 2013

Researchers at MIT have developed a method that ’scrubs’ the harmful emissions generated from fossi…

Dr. John Carpenter

LyoLearn webinar from SP Scientific

SP Scientific | Added: 13 Jun 2013

SP Scientific will be running a webinar covering ’ Sub-visible Particles: Impacts on Aggregation Pa…

Atom-by-atom imaging technique

Atom-by-atom imaging technique revealed

Added: 11 Jun 2013

Researchers from the University of California have developed a technique that captures atomic scale…

Agilent 4100 ExoScan Handheld FTIR spectrometer

Cambridge students employ Agilent technology

Analytik | Added: 4 Jun 2013

The Agilent 4100 was at the heart of a project that seeked to assess the uses of portable FTIR.

Bacteria

Faster production of designer bacteria

Added: 29 May 2013

A simpler and faster way of producing designer bacteria has been developed by University of Adelaid…

acoustic phonons

Billion-frames-per-second film captures gold nanocrystal vibrations

Added: 24 May 2013

A billon-frames-per-second film has captured the vibrations of gold nanocrystals in stunning detail…

Nanoantennas

Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing

Added: 22 May 2013

The University of Pennsylvania has used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning i…

Whisky analysis

Technique detects dangerous additives in whisky

Added: 20 May 2013

A new technique for detecting dangerous fake whisky, and other spirits, has been developed by resea…

A three-dimensional view of a p-Pb collision

Lab creates world's smallest liquid droplets

Added: 17 May 2013

Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab.

spectroscopy scans of the atmosphere

High-speed spectroscopy aids greenhouse gas detection

Added: 15 May 2013

A spectroscopy technique developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology could aid …

Microscope

Triangulenium imaging dye is 'ten times better'

Added: 13 May 2013

Danish chemists have discovered a new dye that they claim will improve imaging techniques.

Joint BioEnergy Institute

Separation technique could improve biofuel production

Added: 10 May 2013

A new technique for pre-treating cellulosic biomass with ionic liquids could bring down the cost of…

Protein

Technique speeds up analysis of proteins

Added: 9 May 2013

Method claims to reduce the time used to simulate how proteins take on their signature three-dimens…

Macrophages

Spectrometer improves understanding of immune cells

Added: 7 May 2013

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) have developed a mass spectroscopy-based method to a…

Two-phase extraction

Old separation technique outdoes HPLC

Added: 2 May 2013

NIST researchers have opted for two-phase extraction over HPLC to separate carbon nanotubes.

super-resolution optical microscopy

'Super-resolution' microscope for nanostructures

Added: 1 May 2013

Researchers have found a way to see synthetic nanostructures using a new type of super-resolution o…

Better metrics

Better metrics extend SAS capabilities

Added: 30 Apr 2013

Researchers from Berkeley Laboratory have improved the metrics for X-ray and neutron analysis of fl…

Better metrics extend SAS capabilities

Added: 26 Apr 2013

Researchers from Berkeley Laboratory have improved the metrics for X-ray and neutron analysis of fl…

Spectroscopy in the palm of your hand

Added: 25 Apr 2013

Penn State is planning to convert a mobile phone into a spectrometer for point-of-care screening.

Microscopy

A new class of molecular probes for fluorescence microscopy

Added: 24 Apr 2013

Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed fluorescent reporters for fluorescence m…