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NIR Spectroscopy Guide for QC Laboratories

Across the wide range of material and chemical production industries, demand is growing for improved quality assurance and quality control processes.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 11 Jun 2020

New Sensing Method Allows Precise Remote Measurements of Wind Speed

At the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, physicists have devised a novel technique for measuring the speed of wind remotely.

11 Jun 2020

Toshiba Launches Lens Reduction Type 1500-Pixel Monochrome CCD Linear Image Sensors for Industrial Equipment

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has launched two lens reduction type 1,500-pixel monochrome CCD linear image sensors for industrial equipment: “TCD1105GFG,” with a built-in electronic shutter function, and “TCD1106GFG.” Sample shipment will start from July 2020.

From Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation 11 Jun 2020

Low-Cost Aerosol-Jet-Printed Sensor to Detect Toxins in Food

Researchers in the USA have developed a graphene-based electrochemical sensor capable of detecting histamines (allergens) and toxins in food much faster than standard laboratory tests.

11 Jun 2020

Multi-Tasking Flow Sensors Help Reduce Energy Consumption

The use of flow sensors which monitor both flow velocity and the temperature of mediums at critical locations in a major dairy processing plant have proved to be very significant in providing vital energy consumption data and ultimately achieving important cost savings.

From Baumer Ltd. 11 Jun 2020

New Durable, Low-Power, Wearable Paper-Based Device to Analyze Sweat

At North Carolina State University, scientists have developed a paper-based device as a wearable model that can gather, transfer, and analyze sweat as part of next-generation wearable technology.

10 Jun 2020

New Low-Cost Magnetic Sensor is More Sensitive and Uses Minimal Power

At Brown University, a group of physicists has designed a new kind of compact, ultra-sensitive magnetometer. According to them, the latest device could be beneficial for a range of applications in which weak magnetic fields are used.

9 Jun 2020

MSR-Electronic - Worldwide Methane Gas Monitoring in over 300 Biogas Plants

The idea is as simple as it is ingenious: Mix the unloved liquid manure with corn silage, let bacteria work and use the methane gas produced to generate electricity and heat. Renewable energy sources are inexhaustible. In times of scarce energy resources and climate change, the focus is on new energy sources. Biogas has proven to be a very good alternative in natural energy production.

From MSR-Electronic GmbH 9 Jun 2020

Improved Wearable Brain Scanner Helps Understand and Diagnose Mental Illness

An advanced wearable brain scanner has exhibited a new potential to understand and diagnose mental illness following the expansion of the technology to scan the entire brain with millimeter precision.

8 Jun 2020

New Sensors to Control Quality of Drugs and Monitor Environment

Supersensitive sensors to detect enantiomers, called “mirror molecules,” in drugs have been developed by researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University in collaboration with researchers from the Czech Republic.

8 Jun 2020

Color-Changing, Smart Fabrics Track Body and Environment

A team of researchers from the School of Engineering in Tufts University has created novel biomaterial-based inks that change color upon reacting to and measuring the chemicals discharged by the body(for example, in sweat and other possible bio-fluids) or in the surrounding setting.

8 Jun 2020