Category: Technology
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How Vacuum Metallization Achieves its Highly Reflective Properties
Written by: Denton Vacuum, LLC Summary: The process of vacuum metallization requires numerous steps. The process of vacuum metalizing involves the evaporation of metals – most commonly aluminum – inside a tightly sealed vacuum chamber. Upon completion, a uniform metalized layer is produced from the metal byproducts. The Beginning Phases Typically, you’ll see thermal evaporation…
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MIT Scientists Engineer a Second Skin to Reduce Wrinkles
Only the scientists at MIT would think of something this creative. You know how your skin burns then sheds after an inappropriately long extended session in the sun in the middle of summer? These guys have decided to reverse the process. What would happen if we added a synthetic polymer of silicon that locked in…
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Ion Beam Source Technology: Breaking Down the Advantages
The use of ion beams has transcended the deposition industry. There are numerous advantages to using ion beam sputter deposition over plasma or evaporation methods. The amount of flexibility that ion beam technology offers to substrates makes this method a high performance choice. Brief Introduction Ion beam sputter deposition utilizes an ion beam as the…
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Oligonucleotide Synthesis: The Basics
Summary: Learn the ins-and-outs of oligonucleotide synthesis. Oligonuclotide synthesis is process used to create primers with methods like the replication of PCR. A relatively easy but useful process, Oligo synthesis has been a key part in the advancement of laboratory procedures. Chemical structures or nucleic acid fragments are synthesized in various sizes with an extreme…
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Searching for Diseases and Cures
Summary: Scientists are devising new methods to detect viruses with relative certainty. Part of the challenge that comes with treating a disease like malaria is being able to track the infection before the patient succumbs to it. In these battles of time, every hour counts and more effort is being put into solutions that allow…
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Applications of Diamond Like Carbon
Written by: Denton Vacuum, LLC Properties Diamonds are the hardest known natural materials on earth, so DLC tries to duplicate that feeling from within a lab. There are three primary qualities desired above all else: hardness refers to the diamond’s suitability as a gemstone, wear resistance measures the gem’s ability to stand up to abrasion,…