AZoM.com Engineering and Materials News Feed http://www.azom.com The Lastest Engineering and Materials News from AZoM - The A to Z of Materials en Copyright 2001-2008, AZoM.com Pty Ltd Niobium-Based Superconducting Devices Could Lead to Smaller, More Efficient Linear Colliders In a 1954 speech to the American Physical Society, the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi fancifully envisioned a particle accelerator that encircled the globe. Such would be the ultimate theoretica... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20633 World's Fastest Graphene Transistor Demostrated by IBM In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene de... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20632 ThyssenKrupp Steel Jointly Fund Center for Electrochemical Sciences ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are jointly funding the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) at Ruhr University Bochum. The new center, which is also cooperat... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20631 New Range of Plastic Containers for Petroleum Products Available from RPC RPC Montpont has launched a new range of 5 litre plastic containers, including a U.N. approved co-ex variant ideal for volatile petroleum products. The containers have been designed to meet custom... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20630 BASF Introduce New Pigment for Creating Orange to Red Shades Paliocrom Brilliant Orange L 2850 is the first of a new generation of effect pigments from BASF. Exceptional brilliance and ultra-high chroma enable the creation of novel designs in the orange to red ... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20629 New Composite Material Could Revolutionise Car Design and Manufacture Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionise car design and manufacturing. Parts of a car's bodywork could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behin... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20628 Grpahene-Based Lighting OLED Products that are Fully Recyclable With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. ... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20627 Near-Field Microscope that can Measure Optical Properties with a Spatial Resolution Scientists of the research group of Prof. Dr. Alfred Meixner and Dr. Dai Zhang from the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Tübingen have developed a near-field micros... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20626 VHE Install Automatic Anode Stub Straightening Systems at Primary Aluminum Plants Automatic anode stub protection systems from VHE of Iceland are an accepted technology in the primary aluminium industry. Recent installations include Nordic Aluminium (Iceland), Soeral (Norway) and I... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20625 Hiden Introduce Mass Spectrometer for Analysis of Fast Transient Gas Events Hiden Analytical introduce their Transient MS system specifically designed for the analysis of fast transient gas events at pressures near atmosphere. The compact benchtop system is founded on the Hid... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=20624