President Barack Obama finally got to see his atoms, courtesy of FEI's Titan transmission electron microscope.

The President visited a semiconductor manufacturer facility as part of a West Coast technology tour wrapping up Friday. During his visit to the TEM lab, the President made his way through photographers and invited guests and took a seat at the facility's Titan TEM. "I've gotta see some atoms, excuse me" he said while examining the images on the system's monitors. "Don't bump my atoms here."

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Zwick builds the largest pendulum impact tester in the world

The China Petroleum Materials Corporation in Xi'an has placed an order with Zwick for the largest pendulum impact tester ever built. With a height of more than 6.5 meters and total weight of more than 90 tonnes (pendulum including base), it will be used in future for testing pipe materials for pipelines according to ASTM standard E436 and API standard RP5L3.

Zwick is setting a new benchmark with the largest pendulum impact tester in the world – the pendulum hammer alone is 2.1 meters long and weighs two tonnes. Technical support and flexibility in implementation were decisive factors in the design and development of this unique project.

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OCCA General Meeting - 9 May 2011

The Oil and Colour Chemists' Association (OCCA) was founded in 1918; incorporating the Paint and Varnish Society since 1924. Members meet each week to share new developments in their field as well as to discuss on-going research and new techniques being used.

This month OCCA played host to the General Manager for Q-Lab Europe, Jim Regan. Apollo Scientific sponsored the evening, which took place at the Tafelberg Tavern at the Roodehek Terrace.

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The Phenom™ G2 pro

By using the customer's input and through continuous research, Phenom-World continuously strives to increase the value of the Phenom™ desktop SEM for its users. Phenom-World introduces regular improvements in both hardware and software to ensure that customers obtain the required information from the Phenom system in the most effective way.

Phenom G2 pro Phenom-World is focused on enabling you to keep up with continuously shrinking feature-sizes and increase your productivity, while bringing down the costs of analysis. The Phenom G2 pro is the most effective, versatile and fastest desktop SEM available. Its unique design makes it suitable for use in a large variety of applications and markets.

The Phenom G2 pro is the most advanced model in the Phenom series. With improved detection hardware, a new electron source and a new navigation camera, it has become the most powerful desktop SEM.

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World Cup Winner in 2010

Zwick held a competition where you had to guess the winning team for the FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. Mr. Morne Morris of BEHR guessed the right team, which was Spain, and has won a trip for him and his partner to Zwick/Roell's TestXpo 2011.

Congratulations Mr. Morne Morris from Pinetown in Durban!

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FEI Extends ChemiSTEM Technology to Enable Atomic-level Spectroscopy

Elemental mapping at the atomic-level is now possible across the periodic table using x-ray spectroscopy techniques

Hillsboro, Ore./May 3, 2011-FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing systems for research and industry, today announced that it is extending its ChemiSTEM™ Technology to enable, for the first time, atomic-level energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy across the periodic table. The combination of increased current in an atomic-sized probe by Cs-correction and the increase in X-ray detection sensitivity and beam current of the ChemiSTEM Technology allows results to be obtained within minutes.

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UltraWAVE
The Game Changer in Microwave Digestion

Milestone's unique Single Reaction Chamber (SRC) technology overcomes the limitations of traditional microwave sample preparation. At the heart of the system is a large sample chamber that is pre-pressurized with inert gas and heated with microwave energy.

The chamber serves both as a microwave cavity and a reaction vessel. Employing the same SRC technology as the UltraCLAVE, the UltraWAVE offers the same great benefits, but in a smaller benchtop instrument, making it accessible to every lab.

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Heating and cooling thermostats
Economical thermostating in the laboratory from -50 up to 200 °C

Precise, economical, flexible.

With the new ECO, LAUDA is continuing the amazing success story of the current equipment series, the LAUDA Ecoline. There are innovations and developments particularly with regard to the range of features and the ease of operation. Both control heads, designated ECO Silver and ECO Gold, have a powerful circulating pump with a more than 30 percent higher pump capacity compared to the predecessor models.

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The 56th Annual Conference of the SA Institute of Physics, hosted by UNISA

Dates: 12 July 2011 08:00 to 15 July 2011 23:00

Timezone: Africa/Johannesburg

Location: Saint George Hotel

Chairs: Prof. Basson, Ilsa

Material:
Announcements
BioPhysics School
Other
Plenaries
Templates and Guidelines

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Zwick/Roell TestXpo

The 20th testXpo will take place from
10th - 13th October 2011.

Nineteen years - that represents over 25,000 visitors, more than 1,300 exhibits and nearly 500 talks and lectures. These figures prove that the international forum for testing technology is a successful concept. This year promises to be no exception - a plethora of innovative products for your industry await your inspection. We look forward to your visit!

Participation, including lectures, lunch and the Internet Cafe is free of charge.

For more information on the event, click here or visit the testXpo website.

To view Dr. Roell's invite, click here.

Zwick Science Award 2011

Have you published an interesting scientific paper related to materials testing? Zwick rewards the most innovative use of a materials testing machine for ground-breaking research.

Entry deadline: 1st November 2011
Prizes:
1st prize: Paul Roell Medal and € 5,000
2nd prize: € 2,000
3rd prize: € 1,000

For details on last years winner, click here.

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MSSA Conference

This year the Nanoscience Centre of the CSIR will host the 49th Annual Conference of the Microscopy Society of Southern Africa (MSSA).

The conference will take place at the Convention Centre of CSIR in Pretoria from

5th to the 9th of December 2011

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