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Frost + Sullivan Honors QMC’s Enabling Technology for Mass Production of Tetrapod Quantum Dots

Quantum Materials Corporation (QMC), the first manufacturer of Tetrapod Quantum Dots by a mass production continuous flow chemistry process, has been honored with Frost & Sullivan's 2012 North American Enabling Technology Award for Advanced Quantum Dot Manufacturing. QMC's "enabling technology" overcomes all quantum dot industry problems by delivering high-quality, lower-cost, and uniform quantum dots in commercial quantities for the reliable supply necessary for industrial production commitments.

20 Dec 2012

Antimony Microelectrodes Can Help Understand Nature of Electrochemical and Corrosion Processes

For several decades antimony electrodes have been used to measure the acidity/basicity – and so to determine the pH value. Unfortunately, they allow for measuring pH changes of solutions only at a certain distance from electrodes or corroding metals.

19 Dec 2012

Two Employees at Applied Communication Sciences Earn Fellow Distinction

Applied Communication Sciences announced today that it has elevated two employees to the title of ACS Fellow in recognition of their industry-leading innovations, critical business contributions, and extensive collaborations with clients and business partners.

19 Dec 2012

New Study Indicates Black Holes May be Bigger than Previously Thought

Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

19 Dec 2012

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration to Resolve Dark Matter Puzzle

This fall, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and the National Academy of Sciences organized a colloquium that brought together more than 100 cosmologists, particle physicists and observational astrophysicists – three fields now united in the hunt to determine what is dark matter.

19 Dec 2012