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WACKER Strengthens Its Presence in Latin America with a New Subsidiary and Technical Center for Construction Applications in Colombia

Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its presence in Latin America by opening a new technical center for construction applications and a new subsidiary in Bogotá (Colombia) today.

From Wacker Chemie AG 1 Mar 2016

Models to Estimate Potential Mutagenicity of Chemicals Without Any Experimental Data Input

Toxicologists use a large number of tests to assess potential toxicity of chemicals to human and ecological health, a thorough analysis of one chemical requiring $2 to 4 million and a few years of time. One important toxicological property of chemicals is mutagenicity. Both drugs and environmental pollutants can be mutagenic. Gene mutilation related diseases have a major impact on human health.

1 Mar 2016

NIST and Collaborators Demonstrate Nondestructive Approach for Detecting Cracks in Ceramic Capacitors

Medical implants and spacecraft can suddenly go dead, often for the same reason: cracks in ceramic capacitors, devices that store electric charge in electronic circuits. These cracks, at first harmless and often hidden, can start conducting electricity, depleting batteries or shorting out the electronics.

1 Mar 2016

Asynt Announces CryoSyn On-Demand Liquid Nitrogen Generator

The Asynt CryoSyn is a unique on-demand generator (available in 10, 20, 40, 60 & 120L capacity models) which generates liquid nitrogen and nitrogen gas for industrial, medical, food and agricultural, biological and general laboratory applications.

From Asynt 1 Mar 2016

Unison Launches Innovative Software to Manage Tube Bending Process

Groundbreaking software to manage the tube bending process from programming to production is being launched by Unison - the pioneers of all-electric CNC tube bending technology. Its latest software tools package provide significant progress in three areas: simulation, machine programming flexibility, and data collection. The resulting optimisation and versatility of tube bending will help tubular part manufacturers to substantially boost the productivity of operations.

1 Mar 2016

Teijin and Hayashi Telempu’s Jointly Developed High-Performance Soundproof Material Selected for 2016 Toyota Prius

Teijin Limited and Hayashi Telempu Corporation announced today that Hayashi Telempu’s V-Wave™ soundproof material made with Teijin’s V-Lap™ nonwoven polyester fabric has been selected as soundproof material for the 2016 Toyota Prius, which launched in Japan in December 2015.

From Teijin Limited 1 Mar 2016

Flame-Retardant, High-Modulus Thermoplastic Textile Prepreg Developed by Toho Tenax

Toho Tenax Co., Ltd., the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibers and composites business, announced today that it has developed a flame-retardant, high-modulus thermoplastic textile prepreg.

1 Mar 2016

Metrohm Expands Empower 3 Support for Ion Chromatography

Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the expansion of Ion Chromatography instruments and accessories supported by Waters’ Empower® Chromatography Data Software (CDS).

From Metrohm USA Inc. 1 Mar 2016

Manipulation of Exciplexes Paves Way for Novel Electronics with Tunable Properties

Researchers at Kyushu University have formulated a new approach that could be the foundation of a whole new range of electronic devices possessing exceptionally tunable properties. Using this approach, the team was able to extensively vary the efficiency and emission color of organic light-emitting diodes based on exciplexes merely by modifying the distance by a few nanometers between key molecules in the devices.

1 Mar 2016

UCLA Professor Earns 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award for New Materials Development

Alexander Spokoyny, an assistant professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, has received a 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. The honor, which is intended to help young faculty achieve tenure while teaching and conducting research, recognizes Spokoyny for his work on developing new materials and synthetic methods using boron cluster compounds. Nominations for the annual award are made by 3M researchers.

29 Feb 2016

MIT Researchers Devise New Proof-of-Concept to Produce Flexible, Ultrathin Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Solar cells that are extremely lightweight, flexible, and thin can be placed on any kind of surface or material, which may include smartphones, helium balloons or even a sheet of paper.

26 Feb 2016

Stanford Researchers Build Solar-Powered Battery Using Simple Metal Oxides

An economy that depends solely on fossil fuels seems unsustainable in the current global scenario. Oil prices are crashing, and supplies of coal, oil, and similar fuels are limited.

26 Feb 2016

Researchers Develop Heat-Reflective Coating for Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Windows

It has been estimated that 10% of the total energy utilized in buildings across the U.S. can be attributed to window performance, costing building owners around $50 billion every year, yet the increasing cost of retrofitting windows or replacing them with an energy efficient coating seem to be a major hindrance.

26 Feb 2016

Cardiff Researchers Develop Quick and Efficient Method for Producing Water-Purifying Chemical

A quick, cheap and highly efficient method for producing a water-purifying chemical has been developed by researchers at Cardiff University.

26 Feb 2016

VDI Congress: ELIX Polymers to Introduce ABS Plating Grades Portfolio for Automotive Industry

ELIX Polymers, a leading manufacturer of ABS (Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene) resins and derivatives in Europe with a 40-year track record, will introduce its ABS plating grades portfolio at the VDI “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” congress in Mannheim, Germany (March 9th and 10th).

26 Feb 2016

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WACKER Strengthens Its Presence in Latin America with a New Subsidiary and Technical Center for Construction Applications in Colombia

Models to Estimate Potential Mutagenicity of Chemicals Without Any Experimental Data Input

NIST and Collaborators Demonstrate Nondestructive Approach for Detecting Cracks in Ceramic Capacitors

Asynt Announces CryoSyn On-Demand Liquid Nitrogen Generator

Unison Launches Innovative Software to Manage Tube Bending Process

Teijin and Hayashi Telempu’s Jointly Developed High-Performance Soundproof Material Selected for 2016 Toyota Prius

Flame-Retardant, High-Modulus Thermoplastic Textile Prepreg Developed by Toho Tenax

Metrohm Expands Empower 3 Support for Ion Chromatography

Manipulation of Exciplexes Paves Way for Novel Electronics with Tunable Properties

UCLA Professor Earns 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award for New Materials Development

MIT Researchers Devise New Proof-of-Concept to Produce Flexible, Ultrathin Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Stanford Researchers Build Solar-Powered Battery Using Simple Metal Oxides

Researchers Develop Heat-Reflective Coating for Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Windows

Cardiff Researchers Develop Quick and Efficient Method for Producing Water-Purifying Chemical

VDI Congress: ELIX Polymers to Introduce ABS Plating Grades Portfolio for Automotive Industry

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