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In every issue L-shaped router-plane blade How do you sharpen an L-shaped blade? Curved scrapers Card scrapers with a curved or gooseneck profile seem difficult to sharpen. You can wrap wooden dowels with diamond lapping film or sandpaper, or buy a pack of dowel-shaped sharpening stones in different diameters. Schwarz either uses sharpening stone dowels or wooden dowels wrapped with sandpaper to strop the bevel. [Extracted from the article]

A report from the City University of Hong Kong discusses new findings on cancer research. The study focuses on the development of nanoparticles for high-performance cancer phototheranostics. These nanoparticles, called through-space charge-transfer (TSCT) nanoparticles, are constructed using short-conjugated donor-acceptor (D-A) molecules. The research demonstrates that these nanoparticles have potential for bioimaging and cancer treatment due to their efficient TSCT and red-shifted optical properties. This study provides a facile strategy for constructing nanoparticles for biomedical applications. [Extracted from the article]

The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) will be presenting the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) with the LMGI Humanitarian Award at the 11th Annual LMGI Awards. The MPTF has been providing health and social services to the entertainment community for over 100 years, including healthcare, financial assistance, social services support, childcare, and residential living for the elderly. The award recognizes the MPTF's commitment to supporting industry professionals in need. The ceremony will take place in Beverly Hills, California, and will celebrate the contributions of location professionals in film, television, and commercials. [Extracted from the article]

A patent has been issued for a diamond smoothing method developed by inventors from Kyushu University in Japan. The method involves using a laser light to smooth the raised and recessed surface of a diamond. The inventors have developed a technique to reduce the polished amount of the diamond, regardless of variations in crystal size, grade, and doping elements. The method aims to achieve a polished surface with a thickness of 2.0 m or less and a surface roughness of 0.2 m or less. The patent provides detailed claims and specifications for implementing the diamond smoothing method. [Extracted from the article]

Abstract Nanostructured diamond have potential applications in many biomedical related fields and demonstrated extraordinary capacity to influence cellular responses. Studying the surface property of nanodiamond and its influence to protein adsorption and subsequent cellular responses along with the mechanism behind such capacity becomes more important. Here the role of surface energy associated with nanostructured diamond in modulating fibronectin and osteoblast (OB, bone forming cells) responses was investigated. Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) and submicron crystalline diamond (SMCD) films with controllable surface energy were prepared by microwave-enhanced plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) techniques. Fibronectin adsorption on the diamond films with varied surface energy values was measured via the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and the relationship between the surface energy and fibronectin adsorption was studied. The result indicated that fibronectin adsorption on nanostructured surfaces was closely related to both surface energy and material microstructures. The spreading and migration of OB aggregates (each containing 30–50 cells) on the NCD with varied surface energy values were also studied. The result indicates a correlation between the cell spreading and migration on nanodiamond and the surface energy of nanostructured surface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract In this study, diamond films were synthesized on silicon substrates by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) over a wide range of experimental parameters. The effects of the microwave power, CH 4 /H 2 ratio and gas pressure on the morphology, growth rate, composition, and quality of diamond films were investigated by means of scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). A rise of microwave power can lead to an increasing pyrolysis of hydrogen and methane, so that the microcrystalline diamond film could be synthesized at low CH 4 /H 2 levels. Gas pressure has similar effect in changing the morphology of diamond films, and high gas pressure also results in dramatically increased grain size. However, diamond film is deteriorated at high CH 4 /H 2 ratio due to the abundant graphite content including in the films. Under an extreme condition of high microwave power of 10 kW and high CH 4 concentration, a hybrid film composed of diamond/graphite was successfully formed in the absence of N 2 or Ar, which is different from other reports. This composite structure has an excellent measured sheet resistance of 10–100 Ω/Sqr. which allows it to be utilized as field electron emitter. The diamond/graphite hybrid nanostructure displays excellent electron field emission (EFE) properties with a low turn-on field of 2.17 V/μm and β = 3160, therefore it could be a promising alternative in field emission applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Excimer Laser, Health and Medicine, Medical Devices, Applied Physics Keywords: Applied Physics; Excimer Laser; Health and Medicine; Medical Devices EN Applied Physics Excimer Laser Health and Medicine Medical Devices 898 898 1 08/07/23 20230813 NES 230813 2023 AUG 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week -- Data detailed on applied physics have been presented. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Staff Writers Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Dec 10, 2019, 2019 Can two layers of the 'king of the wonder materials,' i.e. graphene, be linked and converted to the thinnest [...]

2019 OCT 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Drugs and Therapies - Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors have [...]

2019 JUN 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Drugs and Therapies - Antiinfectives have been published. [...]

The relative output factor (ROF) was introduced as a total scatter factor measured by a given dosimeter (x) to total scatter factor measured by diamond detector, the relative output factor values were 0.859 and 0.104 for both Diode/Diamond and Film/Diamond, combinations, respectively." Keywords: Health and Medicine; Medical Physics EN Health and Medicine Medical Physics 2991 2991 1 04/24/23 20230428 NES 230428 2023 APR 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- New research on medical physics is the subject of a new report. [Extracted from the article]

IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS, YOU MIGHT BE able to buy a smartwatch - powered with a radioactive diamond battery - that will outlive you and your progeny for generations. The potentially game-changing battery comes from the San Francisco - based startup Nano Diamond Battery (NDB), which lauds its namesake "high-power diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron voltaic battery" for its ability to give devices "life-long and green energy.". [Extracted from the article]

Diamonds to power quantum computers Scientists have developed a way to mass-produce tiny diamond crystals shaped like needles and threads, which may power the next generation of quantum computing. Physicists [...]

Scientists have developed a way to mass-produce tiny diamond crystals shaped like needles and threads, which may power the next generation of quantum computing. Physicists from Lomonosov Moscow State University [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Houston TX (SPX) Feb 07, 2014, 2014 Perfect sheets of diamond a few atoms thick appear to be possible even without the big squeeze that makes natural [...]

For decades, engineers have sought to build more efficient electronic devices by reducing the size of their components. In the process, however, they have reached a thermal bottleneck. The unusually [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Nashville TN (SPX) Nov 08, 2011, 2011 A team of scientists working at Argonne National Laboratory's (ANL) Center for Nanoscale Materials has successfully carved ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) [...]

The article reports on a study conducted by the researchers at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Tsukuba, which demonstrates the use of multiple diamond defect in boosting the temperature sensitivity of magnetometer. Topics discussed include the noise reduction, the magnetic field measurements, and polarization with laser pulses.

The article presents information on the first fabrication and operation of high-frequency nanomechanical resonators implemented in diamond films. It mentions that reduction in film thickness could be activated by a gain in performance as a mass sensor. It also informs that scientists are working on the design and fabrication of large arrays of SC diamond dome resonators to demonstrate sensitivity exceeding the performance of thin-film resonator-based sensors.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has signed a three-year cooperative research agreement with the small superabrasive toolmaking company, Dico Corp Southfield, Mich), to jointly develop and commercialize a process to generate [...]