While polyethylene terephthalate (PET) foams can provide an advantageous alternative to polystyrene (PS) foams, their production process presents challenges that can prevent their adoption. By…
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The biohacking movement is making scientific research accessible to everyone under the form of low-cost community labs. What does it mean to be a biohacker…
Automation is slowly taking over our lives, ranging from smart homes to self-driving cars. With experiments becoming ever more complex and datasets more immense, a…
Henry Ford once proposed cars competently made out of soy-based plastic. Now the industry is again kicking the tires on innovative uses of the composite…
Boiler Selection Considerations Perhaps no other piece of equipment is more important to a facility than the boiler. Proper boiler selection, to meet the needs of…
A good laboratory notebook is the lifeblood of a successful laboratory, serving as a vital repository for retaining valuable experiment data. There’s nothing more frustrating…
Ostwald viscometer, also known as U-tube viscometer or capillary viscometer is a device used to measure the viscosity of the liquid with a known…
The cylinder is filled with high viscosity glycerol. Piped in are droplets of corn syrup (different viscosity) colored with food dye. Stir too quickly and…
Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a new class of multi-functional sequence-defined polymers. A team of chemical engineers and chemists in the Livingston Group…
A radical new method of producing drug molecules, which uses downloadable blueprints to easily and reliably synthesise organic chemicals via a programmable ‘chemputer’, could be…