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Battery Material Changes in Real Time: Silicon Anode Structural Evaluation via Isothermal Microcalorimetry

Webinar Battery Material Changes in Real Time: Silicon Anode Structural Evaluation via Isothermal Microcalorimetry From cutting-edge cars to appliances in the home and ones you wear on your wrist, battery technology is evolving rapidly, racing to keep up with consumer and industry demands. Understanding battery chemistry is essential in battery research that could hold the…

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Streamline Battery Slurry Quality Control with Rheology

In battery manufacturing, quality starts with the slurry. For QA/QC professionals, ensuring the consistency and performance of electrode slurries is not just a checkpoint — it’s a quality control imperative. Slurry quality directly impacts electrode uniformity, adhesion, and ultimately, battery performance and lifespan.

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Precision Testing for Energetic Materials and Propellants: How TA Instruments Powers Safety, Stability, and Performance

Innovation in materials science is a continuous pursuit, driven by the demand for lighter, stronger, more durable, and more reliable components. This is especially critical in the aerospace and defense industries, where materials must perform reliably under extreme conditions—including intense mechanical stress, wide temperature fluctuations, and long-term environmental exposure.

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Fast Frequency Chirps

Rheology Testing Fast Frequency Chirps Fast Frequency Chirps technology transforms how frequency sweeps are performed on the Waters TA Instruments Discovery Hybrid Rheometers and ARES-G3™ Rheometers. By using rapid, continuous frequency-modulated “chirps,” this method enables efficient measurement of a material’s linear viscoelastic properties, capturing dynamic changes such as curing or chemical reactions. Fast Frequency Chirps…

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Rheology is Brewed: The Battle of the Coffees – Colombia vs. Brazil

Grab your favorite mug and get ready for a caffeinated clash of titans! We all know that coffees produced in different regions are distinct; like wine, the taste will vary with soil, climate, and altitude. Some of our lab members are partial to the distinct flavors from Colombia and Brazil when it comes to their cups of coffee.

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Assessing Production and Stability for Current and Emerging Antibody Drug Conjugate Platforms

Webinar Assessing Production and Stability for Current and Emerging Antibody Drug Conjugate Platforms Summary Clinically approved ADCs, despite high antibody sequence similarity, vary in linkers, payloads, and formulations. In this webinar we explore analytical techniques for ADC characterization—such as Intact Mass Spectrometry (DAR), peptide mapping, infrared spectroscopy, absorbance, DLS, and DSC—to evaluate structure, aggregation, and…

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Setting Up and Running a Parallel Plate Test on the Discovery HRx Rheometer

Overview In this Tech Tip, we discuss the parallel plate geometry on the TA Instruments HRx Rheometer and show you how to set up and run this experiment on a soft solid. HRx Overview: https://www.tainstruments.com/an-overview-of-the-discovery-hrx-rheometers/ How to Avoid Slippage: https://www.tainstruments.com/how-to-avoid-slippage-during-rheological-testing/ Geometry Calibrations: https://www.tainstruments.com/plate-or-cone-geometry-calibrations-dhr/

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