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Automated material analysis offers cut to cost and human error 

Added: 4 Dec 2022

Researchers in Japan have developed a method to automate a mathematical procedure used to analyse X…

View from the business end

Added: 7 Nov 2022

Tim Doggett explains the importance of sustainability for modern laboratories in terms of the wider…

Jha and Rannard headline at Lab Innovations

Added: 31 Oct 2022

Economist science correspondent Alok Jha and leading academic and spin-out pioneer Dr Steve Rannard…

Lab Awards finalists named

Added: 26 Oct 2022

Finalists have been announced for the Lab Awards – hosted by Lab Innovations in partnership with La…

Sulzer acquisition to scale up biopolymer production

Added: 11 Sep 2022

Industrial giant Sulzer has acquired a stake in Netherland’s-based CELLiCON with the aim of scaling…

Bibby scientific give school children an experimental experience at british science week

CCDC grants aim to inspire tomorrow’s structural chemistry pioneers

Added: 11 Sep 2022

One of the world’s leading resources for structural chemistry, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Cent…

Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry

Added: 27 Aug 2022

Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable indust…

Hazards poster

Avoiding common pitfalls deploying customised fume cupboards

Added: 23 Aug 2022

Fume cupboards are vital in an industrial setting but they need to be tailored carefully to the ind…

Polymers

Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis

Added: 20 Aug 2022

Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the …

UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films

Added: 13 Aug 2022

The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…

Polymers

Leading chemical and utility firms join RSC polymer sustainability task force

Added: 3 Jul 2022

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced four leading industry recruits have joined its S…

Industry 4.0 for UK chem labs

Added: 10 May 2022

In advance of her talk as part of the Lab News hosted session at CHEMUK 2022, Iwona Kandpal looks a…

Sustainable concept for wood-based textile fibres

Added: 14 Apr 2022

The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Si…

How to ensure secure biological material transportation

Added: 6 Apr 2022

The correct transport of biological material is a major aspect of modern bio-legislation. Here, Den…

Scientists develop environmentally safe, frost-resistant coatings

Added: 1 Apr 2022

As the urgency to eradicate environmental pollution increases, many biomaterials are being develope…

World's first confocal light microscope to study chiral molecules

Added: 11 Feb 2022

Scientists from Durham University’s Chemistry Department have developed the world’s first laser sca…

Replacing unsustainable materials in nanostructure surfaces

Added: 7 Feb 2022

New research results from Linnaeus University opens for a future with more sustainably produced nan…

Electron diffraction: A technique suggesting radically new things

Added: 11 Jan 2022

Crystallography mainly relies on diffraction techniques and the most recent of them, electron diffr…

New microscope uses photonics to gain insights into ‘superbugs’

Added: 25 Nov 2021

Scientists are building a new super-resolution microscope that uses laser light to study the inner …

How to gain Chinese regulation compliance

Added: 12 Nov 2021

Dr Paul Orange outlines the project which led to his involvement in the new Chinese battery protoco…