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Chris Stanton, Sara Horton and Sherri Zeller presented their findings from the 1999 course. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the revamped and retooled Chemical Engineering Design Project course ...

David J Scurr and Matthew Piggott describe how time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry is helping scientists in a variety of industries to understand problems related to materials science ...

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On the spur of the moment, I grabbed a piece of paper and started sketching the flow paths, mechanism, form, and placement of the sensor by hand. And whoa! Just like that, not only did my colleagues ...