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New Testing Methods Can Help Optimize the Application of Nano-Composite Coatings for Automakers

Lightweight polycarbonate (PC) glazing technologies from SABIC Innovative Plastics' Exatec* organization can offer automakers solutions that reduce weight and can assist in reducing CO2 emissions and fuel consumption.

13 Nov 2008

UWM Researcher Creates Smart Nanocoatings that Fortify Materials

Put steel under a powerful microscope, revealing its microstructure, and prepare to be surprised. Known for its strength, the metal will appear pitted and pocked."It is intrinsic to the material," says Carolyn Aita, a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). "A pit can begin to develop from a physiochemical defect in the steel itself."

20 Oct 2008

Asylum Research to Present Session on NanoIndenter System at AVS Conference

Asylum Research announced that it will present a session on its NanoIndenter System at the AVS Conference and Exhibition in Boston, MA on October 21 at 12:20 in the Exhibitor Workshop area of the main exhibit hall. Asylum Application Scientist, Keith Jones, will present "Combining AFM and Instrumented Nanoindentation for Mechanical Characterization of Materials at the Nanoscale."

From Asylum Research - An Oxford Instruments Company 16 Oct 2008

Putting the Squeeze on Thin Films of Polystyrene

From buttons to storage bins, the molding of polymers is big business. At the nanoscale, processes such as nanoimprint lithography squeeze polymers to form patterns during the manufacture of semiconductor devices, organi...

3 Oct 2008

Small-Tech Veteran Joins Asylum Research as Executive Vice President

Small-tech veteran Monteith G. Heaton has recently joined Asylum Research as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Asylum's line of atomic force and scanning probe microscopes (AFM/SPM).

From Asylum Research - An Oxford Instruments Company 1 Oct 2008

Installation of World-Class Nanoindenter Crucial for New Engineering Research Program

Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) School of Engineering is gearing up for the first intake of Mechanical Engineering students next year with the installation of a high-tech new nanoindenter at the state-of-the-art Mat...

22 Sep 2008

Fluid Testing Rig More Accurately Simulates Operating Conditions for Nanomaterials

Micro Materials have been making innovative nanoscale test instrumentation for more than twenty years. Centre to their range is the NanoTestT platform which offers options to study a wide variety of materials properties. While many systems have made measurements under ambient conditions, Micro Materials have recognized that environmental testing is key when evaluating true "in-use" performance characteristics.

26 Apr 2008