Malvern Panalytical agrees to acquire Micromeritics, to become world leaders in materials characterization

17-Jul-2024 - Malvern Panalytical announces it has agreed to acquire Micromeritics** - a leader in analytical instrumentation for the physical characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials. Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia (USA), Micromeritics’ technologies enable the comprehensive ...

In the focus of X-rays: New materials for the energy transition

New Process to Test Materials for the Hydrogen Industry

27-Jun-2024 - Researchers at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY have developed a method to rapidly test new materials for the hydrogen industry and analyze their properties down to the atomic level. They were the first to test so-called high-entropy alloys for their corrosion resistance to hydrogen, and ...

Gold membrane coaxes secrets out of surfaces

Thousand-fold signal amplification

26-Jun-2024 - Using a special wafer-thin gold membrane, ETH researchers have made it significantly easier to study surfaces. The membrane makes it possible to measure properties of surfaces that are inaccessible to conventional methods. “Surfaces were invented by the devil” - this quote is attributed to the ...

The dark side of transmission X-ray microscopy

Researchers develop a novel method to make scattered light usable for X-ray imaging in the nanometer range

20-Jun-2024 - X-ray microscopes are essential for examining components and materials because they can be used to detect changes and details in the material. Until now, however, it has been difficult to detect small cracks or tiny inclusions in the images. By developing a new method, researchers at the ...

Oxford Instruments to acquire FemtoTools

"Oxford Instruments’ leading reputation and international presence is a great springboard for our next stage of growth"

17-Jun-2024 - Oxford Instruments plc announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire FemtoTools AG, a developer of nanoindentation instruments. Completion is subject to certain closing conditions which are expected to be satisfied within the next four weeks. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, and founded ...

‘Hot’ new form of microscopy examines materials using evanescent waves

“This microscope technology is completely new, so we’re still learning specifically how and where it can be applied”

14-Nov-2023 - Conventional microscopes irradiate a sample, usually with light or electrons. Any reflected or scattered radiation can be used to build a detailed image and obtain characteristic information about a material’s surface. This is called an active measurement, but it isn’t the only technique that can ...

When soft spheres make porous media stiffer

Researchers of the University of Stuttgart and the University if Twente succeed in three-dimensional characterization

23-Jun-2023 - Porous media such as concrete physically represent a spherical packing of different components – in this case cement, rock and water. The mechanical properties of such mixtures are still difficult to calculate due to their discretized nature. A team led by Prof. Holger Steeb (University of ...

AI supports analysis of metallic materials

"With our specially developed algorithm, we are three times faster"

22-May-2023 - Until now, the analysis of crystalline microstructures in metallic materials has been technically challenging and particularly time-consuming. Researchers from the fields of materials engineering and computer science have now developed an algorithm for this purpose and published it in the ...

Detecting pollutants at ultra-trace levels

Material scientists develop nano-structured and reusable substrate for ultra-sensitive detection of low-concentration analytes - Spin-off planned

29-Mar-2023 - Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (or Spectroscopy), known as SERS, is an advanced analysis method that extends the range of Raman applications to trace analysis such as part per million level detection of a pollutant in water or different liquids. SERS has a high potential to be used in the ...

Materials synthesis research and study in terapascal range for the first time

Traveling to the centre of planet Uranus

13-May-2022 - Jules Verne could not even dream of this: A research team from the University of Bayreuth, together with international partners, has pushed the boundaries of high-pressure and high-temperature research into cosmic dimensions. For the first time, they have succeeded in generating and ...