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 ...

Development of robot-based solutions for laboratory automation

University of Rostock and Yaskawa agree to continue their cooperation

17-Apr-2024 - The Center for Life Science Automation (CELISCA) at the University of Rostock and Yaskawa have agreed to continue their cooperation in the development of robot-based solutions for laboratory automation. As one of the first European users ever, the institution will also employ a robot model of the ...

Autonomous measuring instruments systematically detect new materials

A new algorithm measures materials libraries up to four times faster than before: It’s based on machine learning

03-Nov-2023 - Researchers are working tirelessly to find new materials for future technologies that are essential for the energy transition – as electrocatalysts, for example. Due to their versatile properties, materials consisting of five or more elements are of great interest for this purpose. With approx. ...

hte launches first virtual lab for digitalized R&D

13-Jun-2023 - hte – the high throughput experimentation company is proud to announce the launch of its new virtual lab for catalysis and materials R&D. The platform offers a new way of experiencing different laboratory testing solutions and digitalized workflows while showcasing testing possibilities for ...

A Window into the Nanoworld: Scientists Develop New Technique to Image Fluctuations in Materials

New opportunities for materials research

20-Jan-2023 - A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany and from Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States has developed a revolutionary new method for capturing high-resolution ...

Electronic skin: multisensory hybrid material

Even more sensitive than a human fingertip

18-May-2022 - The “smart skin” developed by Anna Maria Coclite is very similar to human skin. It senses pressure, humidity and temperature simultaneously and produces electronic signals. More sensitive robots or more intelligent prostheses are thus conceivable. The skin is the largest sensory organ and at 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 ...

New State of Matter: Crystalline and Flowing at the Same Time

Particles with pompom-like structure

13-Dec-2021 - The predictions of researchers that certain particles of matter with sufficiently high density would form a new state - crystalline and flowing at the same time - could be confirmed in the laboratory. More than 20 years ago, researchers predicted that with sufficiently high density certain ...

New world record in materials research - X-ray microscopy with 1000 tomograms per second

"This method opens a door for the non-destructive study of fast processes in materials, which is what many research groups and also industry have been waiting for"

29-Sep-2021 - Tomoscopy is an imaging method in which three-dimensional images of the inside of materials are calculated in rapid succession. Now a team led by HZB physicist Francisco García Moreno has achieved a new world record at the TOMCAT beamline of the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute: ...