Rigaku and Xenocs collaborate to redefine the future of material characterization

04-Sep-2024 - Rigaku Holdings Corporation and Xenocsannounced a strategic cooperation between Rigaku Corporation*1 (“Rigaku”) and Xenocs that combines their world-class X-ray technologies to redefine the future of material characterization. The partnership involves a cross-selling agreement in which Rigaku ...

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 ...

Machine learning boosts search for new materials

Scientists have developed deep-learning models that can sift through the massive amounts of data generated by X-ray diffraction techniques

29-Dec-2023 - Scientists from theUniversity of Rochestersay deep learning can supercharge a technique that is already the gold standard for characterizing new materials. In annpj Computational Materialspaper, the interdisciplinary team describes models they developed to better leverage the massive amounts ...

Anton Paar Acquires Brabender GmbH & Co. KG

Integration as Anton Paar TorqueTec GmbH

09-Aug-2023 - On August 1, 2023, Anton Paar acquired the German company Brabender, which will be integrated into the Anton Paar Group as Anton Paar TorqueTec GmbH. The effective, retroactive date of the acquisition is January 1, 2023. The company, based in Duisburg, Germany, offers measurement and process ...

Verder Group acquires specialist for particle characterization

12-May-2023 - The Verder Group announces the acquisition of Formulaction S.A. of France. As part of the group’s Scientific Division Formulaction will be integrated into Microtrac MRB, a leading manufacturer of Particle Characterization Systems. Formulaction is a recognized innovator in the field of laboratory ...

European project investigates sustainability of the material of the future graphene

New characterisation methods to enable an accurate assessment and prediction of the effects on humans and the environment

10-May-2023 - A new EU research project in which the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) is playing a leading role is investigating the safe and sustainable use of the versatile nanomaterial graphene. BAM is developing new characterisation methods in its competence centre nano@BAM to enable ...

International Research Team Develops Method to Characterize Nanomaterials

06-Apr-2023 - Researchers from Paderborn University, the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM),Italy’s national metrology institute, the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), National Metrology Institute of Germany, have studied sequential infiltration ...

How catalysts age

"Our new, detailed results could help industrial companies optimise their catalysts and make them more durable"

11-Jun-2021 - PSI researchers have developed a new tomography method with which they can measure chemical properties inside catalyst materials in 3D extremely precisely and faster than before. The application is equally important for science and industry. The material group of vanadium phosphorus oxides (VPOs) ...

Measurement of semiconductor material quality is now 100,000 times more sensitive

11-Apr-2019 - The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2D, micro- and nanoscale materials. Being able to accurately measure semiconductor properties of materials in small ...

A radical solution comes from mixing tools

05-Oct-2017 - For natural gas to be efficiently converted into useful industrial products requires the right catalytic process. Researchers from KAUST and the US combine state-of-the-art techniques for material characterization to demonstrate a unique reaction pathway that shows that molten catalysts based on ...