Japan Petroleum Energy Center Boosts Research with hte’s High Throughput Technology
August 5, 2013
HEIDELBERG, Germany – the high throughput experimentation company announces that the Japan Petroleum Energy Center (JPEC) uses hte's parallel reactor technology in order to develop new refining catalysts and kinetic models. hte supplied an X4500 high throughput catalyst testing system for hydroprocessing applications to the JPEC Advanced Technology and Research Institute (ATRI) in Chiba, Japan. [...]
August 5, 2013
JEOL USA will demonstrate its new JEM-1400Plus, a 120kV Transmission Electron Microscope, at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana, from August 5-8. Based on the popular JEM-1400, the new TEM is making its debut in the United States at the annual meeting of the Microscopy Society of America. JEOL and Protochips have combined [...]
Bruker Introduces Two New Analytical Accessories for Electron Microscopes
August 5, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS -- At the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2013 Meeting (www.microscopy.org/MandM/2013), Bruker today introduces two new instruments which further expand its portfolio of high-performance tools for materials characterization in electron microscopes: • XSense™ is a novel parallel beam wavelength dispersive X-ray spectrometer (WDS) for elemental analysis on scanning electron microscopes (SEM). Specifically designed for the lower [...]
Oxford Instruments appoints new head of China operations
August 3, 2013
Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high technology tools and systems for industry and research, has announced the appointment of Gu Ran who joined the Group as President, Oxford Instruments China on 22nd July 2013. Gu Ran will be based in the factory in Shanghai, but also managing the regional offices in Shanghai, Beijing, [...]
Bio-Rad Introduces New iQ-Check™ Prep System for Automated Real-Time PCR Detection of Food Pathogens
August 2, 2013
Hercules, CA — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. today announced the launch of its iQ-Check Prep automation system. The liquid handling platform advances food pathogen testing by automating sample preparation for detection by real-time PCR. Molecular methods are becoming the gold standard in food pathogen testing. International regulators now characterize pathogens such as Shiga toxin–producing E. coli [...]
August 2, 2013
For faculty, students and researchers at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND, PetroArc International has begun development of the first high-resolution microscopic digital core library; formally named the Continental Resources High Resolution Virtual Core Library. This digital library is being created, thanks to a combination of both public and private funding, including [...]
EDAX Increases the Speed and Productivity of Its Electron Backscatter Diffraction Cameras
August 2, 2013
MAHWAH, NJ– EDAX Inc., a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation, has announced a more than 25 percent increase in the performance of its Hikari XP and DigiView EBSD cameras while maintaining their industry-best indexing quality. Hikari XP EBSD Cameras The Hikari XP camera now delivers up to 1000 patterns per second. The [...]
Ames Laboratory leads with new cutting edge NMR technology
August 2, 2013
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory has announced that it will acquire a Dynamic Nuclear Polarization-NMR spectrometer, a giant step forward in the laboratory’s world-class solid state NMR capabilities. The Ames Laboratory’s instrument will be the first of its kind to be focused on materials and materials chemistry in the United States. In [...]
A new generation of safe and reproducible liquid distribution from WHEATON®
August 1, 2013
WHEATON® introduces the Calibrex™ organo 525 and the Calibrex™ solutae 530, new bottle top dispensers that are destined to make scientists’ lives easier and more productive. Both models smoothly dispense exact volumes of liquid reagents directly from bottle or flask. The dispensers are available exclusively in North America from WHEATON®, the company that designs and [...]
Agilent Technologies Awards Russell Varian Prize for Innovation in NMR to Dr. Lucio Frydman
August 1, 2013
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the 2013 Russell Varian Prize for Innovation in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance has been awarded to Dr. Lucio Frydman, professor and Kimmel Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Dr. Frydman's seminal paper, "The Acquisition of Multidimensional NMR Spectra within a Single Scan," introduces a [...]
