Medical needles have many uses. Since the needles are directly inserted into a person’s body, it is critical that manufacturers adhere to national and international standards for shape, materials, and ...

Lithium-ion batteries charge and discharge because their lithium ions can move in both directions between positive and negative electrodes. Lithium-ion batteries have generally been used in a compact ...

There are numerous analytical methods for establishing the surface roughness as well as the visualization of surface texture. Each of these methods has its own advantages and disadvantages. The ...

New research finds the missing link between soft surface adhesion and the roughness of the hard surface it touches. The key to this foundational discovery is a close look at the rough surface itself ...

The term tribology is derived from the Greek word "tribo" meaning rubbing and "logy" meaning knowledge. The original applications by the Greeks of tribology were in trying to understand the motion of ...

Most natural and artificial surfaces are rough: metals and even glasses that appear smooth to the naked eye can look like jagged mountain ranges under the microscope. There is currently no uniform ...

The Zeiss Smartproof 5 wide-field confocal microscope is designed for applications in quality assurance and quality control, production, and R&D laboratories. The Zeiss Smartproof 5 wide-field ...

Microscopes have formed an integral part of electronics inspection for decades, and are used along the supply chain to check that finished products or individual parts are within specifications. And ...

June 13, 2013. As part of its commitment to facilitating faster, easier measurement and high-quality imaging, Olympus has announced the release of the LEXT OLS4100 laser confocal microscope system.

When it comes to glass microscope slides as substrates for protein microarrays, older is better. In general, microscope slides bought before 2008 make better microarray substrates than do newer ones, ...