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UKBIC opens new advanced battery development laboratory
Published: February 13, 2025
The UK Battery Industrialization Center, United Kingdom, opened its new upgraded and extended Battery Development Laboratory, greatly increased the facility’s capabilities in key areas of battery materials characterization, cell analysis, and forensic activities.
JEOL USA introduces new broad ion beam milling, cross section polisher
Published: February 13, 2025
JEOL USA, Peabody, Mass., released its new broad ion beam milling instruments, Cross Section Polisher and Cooling Cross Section Polisher, for preparing high quality, artifact-free cross sections for imaging and microanalysis by SEM, EPMA, or Auger.
Airbus and Plastometrex partner on standardization of PIP
Published: November 14, 2024
In a significant move to streamline mechanical testing and enhance material insights, Airbus, France, the global aerospace leader, is collaborating with Plastometrex, England, to support the standardization of profilometry-based indentation plastometry (PIP) - the innovative mechanical testing technique developed and commercialized by the Cambridge-based technology provider.
Earthquake prediction techniques provide quick insight into material failure analysis
Published: November 14, 2024
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and Bucknell University, have found that insight from muscovite mica and earthquake statistics can help quantify how hostile environmental interactions impact the degradation of materials used in advanced solar panels, geological carbon sequestration, and infrastructure.
Failure and collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope assessed by new report
Published: November 14, 2024
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, D.C., analyzes the causes of the 2020 collapse of the National Science Foundation’s telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, where NSF maintained research operations for its National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, and draws lessons learned for other unique, critical science facilities.
Thermo Fisher highlights use of advanced SEM for metal quality control analysis
Published: November 14, 2024
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, Mass., has highlighted the ability of scanning electron microscopy to successfully capture defects when conducting failure analysis on metals.
SwRI evaluates reliability of pressure relief valves for liquid natural gas tanks in train derailment scenarios
Published: August 07, 2024
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, has helped determine the viability of pressure relief valves for liquid natural gas tanks in the event of a train derailment for the Federal Rail Administration.
Nikon’s large-envelope X-ray CT system installed in Hyundai Motor North America’s new Safety Test and Investigation Laboratory
Published: August 07, 2024
Nikon Metrology, Inc., Japan, and Hyundai Motor North America, Fountain Valley, Calif., announced that Hyundai has purchased and installed Nikon’s X-ray computed tomography system in its newly opened $51.4 million Safety Test and Investigation Laboratory in Superior Township, Mich.
Pinpointing why promising cathodes fail
Published: August 07, 2024
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered why and how one of the more promising cathode materials in lithium ion batteries - single crystalline nickel-rich lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide - degrades with use.
Penspen strengthens Latin American presence with new strategic base in Peru
Published: August 07, 2024
Penspen, United Kingdom, a leading global energy consultancy, has opened a new strategic base in Peru following significant growth in the Latin American region.
