Meet the Q6 NEWTON!

We're pleased to announce the launch of our new Q6 NEWTON™ benchtop spark Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES), designed to greatly improve alloy composition analysis in the metals industry. With its cutting-edge features and performance, the Q6 NEWTON empowers metallurgists and technicians to achieve precision, speed, and reliability never before seen with a benchtop instrument.

The Q6 NEWTON combines several innovations into a seamless package, ensuring optimal results for every analytical task. At the heart of the Q6 NEWTON lies HighSense™ detection technology. HighSense technology enhances sensitivity, allowing the spectrometer to detect even trace elements with unparalleled precision and speed. No matter whether complex alloys or routine samples are analyzed, the Q6 NEWTON delivers outstanding data quality and reliable results across a wide range of element concentrations.

The maintenance-free SmartSpark™ source produces an ultra-stable plasma and guarantees high precision. The ArgonShield™ protects both optical windows from contamination and prolongs instrument maintenance cycles.

RockSteady™ actively manages thermal stability and eliminates drifts caused by temperature fluctuations. This results in fast operational readiness and analytical long-term stability under a wide ambient temperature range, which is often found in industrial environments like foundries.

With a single push of a button, an automated sample clamp, and SafeGuard™, using an optical emission spectrometer has never been easier. SafeGuard not only ensures operational safety but also continuously monitors plasma quality.

Dr. Peter Paplewski, Product Line Manager for Bruker’s OES analysis business, commented: “The Q6 NEWTON is rapid, reliable, and always ready. With its ultrashort analysis time, market-leading limits of detection, and highest reliability, the Q6 NEWTON is extending the capabilities of benchtop metal analyzers. The combination of HighSense technology, SmartSpark excitation, and RockSteady design let the analyzer reach performance levels even challenging the data quality of floor-standing systems. Reliable, high-precision analysis is now available for every foundry and production floor.”

Watch the recording of the May 28^th Q6 NEWTON launch event, Built on 300 Years of Innovation: Introducing Bruker's Newest Innovation in Elemental Analysis.

Join us on June 25th, 9:00 AM or 4:00 PM CEST, for an insightful live online seminar, From Manufacturing to Recycling: X-Ray Tech in the Battery Life Cycle, where we'll delve into the role of X-ray technology in the battery life cycle.

As we navigate towards a low-carbon economy, storage systems play a key role in our energy evolution. This has resulted in an ever-increasing demand for better batteries, both in terms of production capacity and performance. X-ray analytical techniques are indispensable throughout the entire battery life cycle.

In this online seminar, our presenters will explain what these techniques can do for you! We will cover structural analysis (XRD), elemental analysis (XRF), and 3D tomography analysis (XRM) across different Li-battery types: NMC, NCA, LFP, and more.

Register now for the session that best fits your schedule. If you cannot attend live, register anyway and we'll send you a link to the recording to watch at your convenience.

Register for Session 1 (9 AM CEST / 4 PM KST)

Register for Session 2 (4 PM CEST / 9 AM CDT)

June saw the third edition of the popular Crystallography School organized and hosted by X-TechLab in Benin. The school gives scientists from across the region the opportunity to learn hands-on crystallography using the D8 QUEST ECO at X-TEchLab in Cotonou.

Dr. Eddy Martin, SC-XRD Application Scientist for Bruker AXS, is a regular teacher at the school. Eddy reported, “This year’s school was attended by enthusiastic scientists form Benin, Togo, Nigeria and Guinea. For most, this was their first opportunity to work hands-on with a diffractometer and learn how to make their own measurements.

Interested in using crystallography in your research, but not sure how to get started? Watch our Getting Started in Crystallography online seminar.

For steelmakers seeking to manufacture steel more profitably, it is essential to adopt technologies and processes that allow for monitoring and sampling slag more efficiently and cost effectively. Because of the highly integral role of slag in steel manufacturing, it is critical that these prospective technologies and processes are reliable, repeatable, accurate, and that the instrument functions properly in difficult manufacturing environments.

Slag is an important agent in high-temperature metallurgical processes and is tuned to an equilibrium condition for maximum action on the metal purity, least attack on the refractory lining, and optimal physical properties. Dosage of slag-enhancing additives, such as lime, dolomite, or other additives, is performed based on the chemical composition of the slag and determines the subsequent by-product sale, creating an additional revenue-generating product.

The S2 PUMA Series 2 is a ruggedized benchtop Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) analyzer developed for tight process control in industrial applications. It is the optimal tool to measure the composition of slags on the shop floor, enabling plant operators to make critical decision within 10 minutes after sampling (including sample preparation) and, thus, in time to ensure optimum dosing of additives. State-of-the-art X-ray technology enables the S2 PUMA to quickly achieve the analytical accuracy and precision required at the steel plant, helping to reduce costs and improve production efficiency.

"How do we get it?" and "How much does it cost?": these were the two most common questions asked by attendees of our May 22^nd online seminar, Unlocking Efficiency: SC‑XRD and APEX Software Breakthrough. Dr. Martin Adam and Dr. Tobias Stürzer gave a half-hour presentation on the latest developments in Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction (SC-XRD), highlighting developments such as the PHOTON III detectors and the IμS DIAMOND II and METALJET MC sources.

The online seminar focused on the latest enhancements to the APEX software suite, a powerful tool for elucidating material properties and molecular structures. Chemists, biologists, physicists, geoscientists, and many others participated in the walkthrough of the enhancements to the APEX software suite, including automation, cloud-based handling of CIRRUS sample information, handling of crystallographic challenges, and easy integration of third-party software tools. An impressive number of attendees registered for our new CIRRUS add-on.

Did you miss the event? Get access to the recording and Q&A summary.

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