Spindle company to adopt wireless maintenance system

Aug 26 | New To Market

GTI Spindle Technology is partnering with InCheck Technologies to demonstrate InSite – a new online wireless predictive maintenance system – at a conference at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 13-18. InSite provides data collection, storage, and processing facilities for condition and performance monitoring.

Optically clear PV adhesives stand up to harsh conditions

Jul 15 | New To Market

NuSil Technology, a manufacturer of silicone materials for the solar, photonics, electronics and aerospace industries, has recently launched two clear silicone adhesives for solar module assemblies.  These adhesives are suitable for applications subject to harsh environments, such as high-power LEDs or satellites.

Nanomaterial growth platform targets commercial users

Jul 6 | New To Market

The NanoGrowth-Catalyst benchtop platform from Surrey NanoSystems incorporates nine of the top processes currently used in nanomaterials development. According to the vendor, it is the first platform to maintain vacuum from catalyst delivery to material growth.

Green refrigerator controller helps conserve wasted energy

Jun 23 | New To Market

New Avionics Corp., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has announced the availability of a adaptive defrost controller that replaces a refrigerator's primitive defrost timer. The device detects the formation of frost at a microscopic level and actively manages the compressor and heater to eliminate the frost.

Gas distributors can now purchase telemetry systems

Jun 15 | New To Market

A new telemetry system from SGD Inc. offers an alternative to renting from major industrial gas suppliers. Three models allow monitoring of either liquid or gas in any size bulk tank.

LED light source represents major advance in fluorescence microscopy

Apr 21 | New To Market

Traditional fluorescence microscopy relies on a white light source, usually mercury or xenon, but only a small percentage of the produced wavelength is useful. Carl Zeiss MicroImaging has introduced a new LED technology with its Colibri illumination system that limits light production to a narrow wavelength window, making full use of the light.

imec virtual camera delivers new angle on reality

Apr 12 | New To Market

Imec Virtual Camera turns the input from fixed cameras into a 3D space where a director or cameraman has total freedom to choose any angle or distance to the action.

New JEOL TEM quickly breaks into picoscale territory

Feb 19 | New To Market

 Just three weeks after its installation at the Univ. of Texas San Antonio campus, the latest transmission electron microscope from JEOL delivered data on silicon samples that resolved down to 78 picometers, a level that enables atom-by-atom chemical mapping.

Sigma-Aldrich teams with 3M to provide high-performance organic semiconductor

11/19/2009 | New To Market

TIPS Pentacene, a soluble organic semiconductor for printed and flexible electronics, is manufactured by 3M under the name 3M Organic Electronics Semiconductor L-20856 and is the first in a family of soluble Pentacene-based semiconductors developed by 3M Electronics Markets Materials Division in collaboration with Dr. John Anthony, professor at the Univ. of Kentucky and founder of Outrider Technologies LLC.

Rapidly deployable shelter to improve disaster response, battlefield support

9/2/2009 | New To Market

Today, developers of a new federal disaster response technology demonstrated how the Rapid Deployment Shelter System (RDSS) will shape the future of emergency preparedness and disaster relief. The compact, highly portable rigid wall shelter is easily transportable to domestic and global disaster sites, and may be deployed by one person in less than two minutes with the push of a button.

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The irresistability of the end

Aug 26

What is it about doomsday scenarios? Every once in a while, it seems, the general public can’t get enough of predictions about impending disaster. And the most recent spate of disaster ruminations seems more pervasive than ever.

Premature death notice

Aug 19

Earlier this week, Wired editor Chris Anderson declared the death of the Web and the rise of everything else (on the Internet). It was a bit like twittering the death of your favorite celebrity on Twitter, except in this case it’s the one loved by billions.

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CC Radio - Episode 46

Sep 1

Post-Doctoral Fellow at CC Department of Bioethics Part of Academy Award-Nominated Documentary. For transcripts of this and other NIH Clinical Center podcasts, visit http://www.cc.nih.gov/podcast/

CC Radio - Episode 45

Aug 27

Clinical Center Studies Noninvasive Imaging of Heart Failure. For transcripts of this and other NIH Clinical Center podcasts, visit http://www.cc.nih.gov/podcast/