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CI February 2014 issue

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2014 February

The 2014 R&D Lab Equipment and Instrumentation Directory is now available! Be sure to check it out today.

A Sense of Brick

The Petersen Tegl brickworks is not just a site where the famous Kolumba is made. For more than two centuries, it has also been a family home.
February 1, 2014

The moment you turn down Nybølnorvej in Nybølnor, Denmark, there is no mistaking what kind of place this is.


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Materials Innovation: Making a Gem of a Tiny Crystal

Slowly cooled DNA transforms disordered nanoparticles into orderly crystal.
February 1, 2014

Nature builds flawless diamonds, sapphires and other gems. Now a Northwestern University research team is reportedly the first to build near-perfect single crystals out of nanoparticles and DNA, using the same structure favored by nature.


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High Acoustic Frequency Imaging

Tiny ceramic chip capacitors can be screened for defects using high acoustic frequency imaging.
February 1, 2014

An internal structural defect in a ceramic chip capacitor becomes activated when it expands to create an electrical leakage path between two adjacent electrode layers.


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Improving Optical Fiber Throughput

Researchers have discovered a way to increase optical fiber capacity and boost telecommunications throughput by a factor of 10.
February 1, 2014

Optical fibers carry data in the form of pulses of light over distances of thousands of miles at amazing speeds.


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Inside CI: Trial and Error

People who are involved in R&D must be incredibly determined and continually optimistic.
February 1, 2014

“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.” – Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist


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Sapphire: An Extreme Performer

Ian Doggett of Goodfellow and CI Editor Susan Sutton discuss the benefits and opportunities provided by industrial sapphire.

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