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  • Nanomechanical characterization of the most challenging soft materials
    CSM Instruments is pleased to announce our webinar entitled "Nanomechanical characterization of the most challenging soft materials". This is presented in partnership with Materials Today (Elsevier) and is scheduled on September 29th. Characterization of soft materials such as polymers, elastomers gel or cell by indentation has always been a challenging task because these materials show almost always time dependent mechanical properties. Their visco-elastic properties are characterized by storage and loss moduli whereas response of the material to constant load is described by its creep properties. Since these properties are time dependent, the use of experimental techniques with perfect thermal stability is required so that the results are not discredited by the inherent error of the measurement technique. The most important source of errors in indentation is phenomenon called thermal drift, i.e. change in displacement signal while constant load is applied on a thermally stable material such as fused silica.
  • Tools & Techniques for Nanomechanical Testing of Biomaterials: Part II: Softer Biomaterial Applications
    In the next part of the Hysitron Webinar Series, we continue to examine a more focused group of applications relating to the study of biomaterials.
  • Tools & Techniques for Nanomechanical Testing of Biomaterials
    In part 3 of the Hysitron Webinar Series, we examine a more focused group of applications relating to the study of biomaterials.
  • Developments in Quantitative EDS Analysis
    This webinar will deal with some of the basic and advanced developments in EDS analysis and address some of the peculiarities of the technique.
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  • Gen F Scientists
    Are you on Facebook? Twitter, perhaps? Maybe LinkedIn? What about a social networking site dedicated to materials science? If you are not, you may be more alone than you think…
  • Mie resonance-based dielectric metamaterials Mie resonance-based dielectric metamaterials
    Increasing attention on metamaterials has been paid due to their exciting physical behaviors and potential applications. While most of such artificial material structures developed so far are based on metallic resonant structures, Mie resonances of dielectric particles open a simpler and more versatile route for construction of isotropic metamaterials with higher operating frequencies.
  • Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials
    Phononic crystals have been proposed about two decades ago and some important characteristics such as acoustic band structure and negative refraction have stimulated fundamental and practical studies in acoustic materials and devices since then.
  • Anisotropic metamaterial devices Anisotropic metamaterial devices
    In the last few years, a rapid development has been achieved in a subject area, so called optical transformation, which is based on the property of metric invariance in Maxwell's equations. Optical transformation, also known as transformation optics, allows metamaterials to be tailor-made according to practical needs.
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