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Our company, founded in March 2006, provides tools for analysis, thin film deposition, measurement and control applications from market-leading suppliers. We focus on research, development and process control in the materials science, energy research and semiconductor markets. We have a significant breadth of product offering, including the World market leading thin film metrology company k-Space Associates, Inc. and our 15+ year relationship has included 9 Distributor of the Year awards.

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k-Space Associates, Inc.

In-situ thin film metrology

European sales partner.

Staib Instruments GmbH

Products for RHEED and surface analysis

UK & Ireland sales partner.

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Tuesday 14 August 2012

Lightweight research - 75x lighter than Styrofoam

They have named it Aerographite and it is jet black. Scientists at Kiel University and Hamburg University of Technology have created the lightest material in the world, it weighs 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimetre. As such it is 75 times lighter than Styrofoam. The material is a network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at the nano and micro levels formed by CVD of graphite on a zinc oxide sacrificial substrate. One potential application of Aerographite being the electrodes of Li-ion batteries. The full publication is available at this link.

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