Want to read offline? [Download PDF] When you’re setting up a new lab, most of the conversation is about budget, specifications and materials. That’s understandable those are the decisions in front of you right now, and they come with a deadline attached. There’s one question that gets asked far less often, and it matters just […]
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Want to read offline? [Download PDF] Pesticides remain essential to global food production, protecting crops from pests and disease on a vast scale. Yet this scale carries a real human cost. A 2020 systematic review covering 141 countries estimated that around 385 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning occur worldwide each year, including roughly
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Want to read offline? [Download PDF] Most thin-film deposition processes are designed with flat substrates in mind. Wafers, slides and foils present stable surfaces that face the deposition sources directly. In these applications, the science is well understood, the equipment is well established, and the results are predictable. However, a growing number of research and
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Industry: Biomedical / Orthopaedic and Dental Implants Challenge: Titanium alloys such as Ti6Al4V are the material of choice for orthopaedic and dental implants, valued for their mechanical strength, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility. However, their bioinert nature means they cannot chemically bond with surrounding bone tissue, and implant-associated bacterial infections remain a leading cause of revision
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Want to read offline? [Download PDF] Perovskite photovoltaics have moved from a laboratory curiosity to a genuine commercial contender in under two decades. Certified single-junction efficiencies have now reached 27%, whilst perovskite-silicon tandem configurations have surpassed 34%, with LONGi Green Energy holding the current NREL-certified world record at 34.85% as of April 2025[1]. Behind those
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Want to read offline? [Download PDF] Soil contamination, from heavy metals, pesticides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), poses serious risks to human health and ecosystems. Conventional methods such as ICP-MS, GC-MS, and HPLC remain the gold standard for confirmatory analysis, but they require sophisticated laboratory infrastructure, lengthy sample preparation, and are poorly suited to rapid
Nikalyte’s North American distribution partner, Spectra Research Corporation (SRC), will be exhibiting at x2026, the Canadian Societies for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 2026 Conferences and Exhibition. The conference runs 24–28 May 2026 in Toronto, hosted jointly by the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) and the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE), bringing together researchers, technologists,
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Today, Nikalyte celebrates its seventh anniversary. What began as a single nanoparticle deposition system has grown into a broad portfolio of precision instrumentation — e-beam and magnetron sputtering sources, a UHV nanoparticle source, compact and UHV PVD systems, a powder coating system, bespoke custom systems, and SERS substrates now in active use by researchers and
Want to read offline? [Download PDF] Generating green hydrogen from water splitting is pivotal to the global transition to low-carbon energy systems. Among emerging technologies, piezocatalysis, the conversion of mechanical energy directly into chemical energy via piezoelectric materials, has captured growing attention as a novel, eco-friendly approach to drive water splitting without the need for
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Want to read offline? [Download PDF] Spacecraft power systems operate under constraints that eliminate many conventional energy storage options. CubeSats and small satellites in low Earth orbit experience thermal excursions from −20°C to +60°C or wider, sustained exposure to ionising radiation, and hard mass and volume limits, with no option for in-orbit maintenance or electrolyte
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