Component Management

Diamond is a natural choice when it comes to making nanoscale devices but patterning is expensive and time-consuming. An EU-funded project has investigated DNA templates for patterning any shape. Nanocrystalline diamond thin films are seeded and then grown to produce material for nanoscale devices used in a whole array of fields, from medicine to quantum information processing. However, the precise nanoscale patterning required for these new...

  IBASE has announced the MB991 Micro ATX motherboard designed based on the Intel Q170 chipset to support the Intel Xeon E3 family, 7th and 6th Generation Intel Core, Intel Pentium and Celeron QC/DC processors manufactured on the 14nm process.

Designed to help create precise painted lines, Brady’s new PaintStripe Floor Marking Stencils help quickly organise workplaces and increase their efficiency. The PaintStripe can increase workplace efficiency Clear visuals, like safety signs and floor marking, and can communicate important information exactly where the information is needed. They help create an efficient, lean workplace by supporting employees to quickly and easily reco...

Everett Charles Technologies (ECT) knows how to provide custom spring probes for just about every application.

  The pharmaceutical field is in full expansion, the production and values chains are undergoing changes that require the different actors to adapt.

  Some biodegradable plastics could in the future be made using sugar and carbon dioxide, replacing unsustainable plastics made from crude oil, following research by scientists from the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT) at the University of Bath.

Robots generally need a gripper that adapts to three-dimensional surfaces. Such a gripper needs to be soft to adapt to a great variety of geometries, but not too soft, as it will detach easily and not be able to bear weight for very long. Researchers working with Metin Sitti at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart developed a membrane equipped with microscopic fibres inspired by the fine hairs on a gecko's foot and attach...

Queen's University Belfast researchers have discovered a new way to create extremely thin electrically conducting sheets, which could revolutionise the tiny electronic devices that control everything from smart phones to banking and medical technology. Through nanotechnology, physicists Dr Raymond McQuaid, Dr Amit Kumar and Professor Marty Gregg from Queen's University's School of Mathematics and Physics, have created unique 2D sheets, ...

The automation-ready ‘i’ version of the Relyon Piezobrush plasma treatment unit, is the latest release from Intertronics, and is designated the PZ2-i. Enhanced for use with automated production equipment, the PZ2-i is ready to be mounted on a robot or machine for semi-automated or automated applications.

In January 2016 ETH researchers Professor Raffaele Mezzenga and his senior researcher Sreenath Bolisetty published a study in the journal Nature Nanotechnology about a type of membrane developed in their laboratory. They showed that this membrane could effectively filter out heavy metals, radioactive waste, other toxic substances, and bacteria from polluted water.