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Cabot Debuts New Conductive Additive for High Power Lithium-Ion Battery Applications

Cabot Corp. announces the launch of LITX™ 200, a new conductive additive for high power lithium-ion battery applications.

21 Feb 2013

Control Magazine Recognizes Brooks Instrument with Readers’ Choice Awards

Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of advanced flow, pressure, vacuum and level solutions, received multiple honors from Control Magazine’s 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards. Brooks earned high marks in the variable area flow meter, positive displacement flow meter and thermal mass flow meter categories.

21 Feb 2013

Comprehensive Guide on Materials Ageing and Degradation in Light Water Reactors

Light water reactors (LWRs) are the predominant class of nuclear power reactors in operation today; however, ageing and degradation can influence both their performance and lifetime. Knowledge of these factors is therefore critical to safe, continuous operation. Materials ageing and degradation in light water reactors provides a comprehensive guide to prevalent deterioration mechanisms, and the approaches used to handle their effects.

21 Feb 2013

Malvern Instruments to Spotlight Polyolefin Characterisation Toolkit at SPE 2013

Viscotek multi-detector gel permeation chromatography (GPC) systems for highly productive, information rich, polymer characterization will take center stage on the Malvern Panalytical booth at the 2013 SPE International ...

From Malvern Panalytical 20 Feb 2013

Materion Aerospace Metal Composites Nominated for NASA Group Achievement Award

The Mars Rover (Curiosity) project team at Materion Barr Precision Optics & Thin Film Coatings' Westford, Massachusetts facility, has been nominated for the NASA Group Achievement Award. This prestigious NASA ...

From Materion Precision Optics 20 Feb 2013

PPG Industries New Aerospace Coatings Qualified to SAE International's Aerospace Specifications for Airline Exterior Paint

PPG Industries’aerospace business has qualified nine coatings systems to SAE International’s Aerospace Material Specification 3095A for airline exterior paint. According to Scott Cavin, PPG Aerospace globa...

From PPG Industries Inc. 20 Feb 2013

Fluor Secures EPCM Contract for BASF’s Toluene Diisocyanate TDI Complex Project in Germany

Fluor Corporation announced today that it has secured a contract for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for BASF’s toluene diisocyanate (TDI) Complex project at BASF’s site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Fluor booked the undisclosed value into backlog in the fourth quarter of 2012.

20 Feb 2013

Renesas 40-nm RH850 Microcontroller Wins Golden Mousetrap Award

Renesas Electronics America, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that the RH850/F1x Series of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) was selected as the Automotive Electronics winner of Design News’ prestigious Golden Mousetrap Awards. Renesas Electronics’ Smart Analog Platform was also recognized as a finalist in the Automation & Control category.

20 Feb 2013

Kilopass’ Innovation in NVM Virtual Crosspoint Memory Wins Frost & Sullivan Award

Kilopass Technology Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), announced today that Frost & Sullivan, a leading provider of growth strategy consulting and market research, awarded Kilopass the Kilopass Frost & Sullivan NVM Innovator Award. The award recognizes Kilopass Virtual Crosspoint Memory (VCM) for increasing the bit density of NVM in a standard logic CMOS process by four fold. At less than half the cost of embedded or external flash with die area similar to SRAM and the flexibility of field programmability, a number of applications will benefit from VCM, from microcontrollers to touch display drivers.

20 Feb 2013

Asahi Kasei Debuts Improved Long Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene for Automotive Applications

Asahi Kasei Plastics announces a new long glass fiber reinforced polypropylene for improved impact performance and 20 Percent cost savings compared to traditional long glass fiber reinforced polypropylene.

From Asahi Kasei America, Inc. 20 Feb 2013

New Analysis of the US Fuel Cell Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the updated "Analyzing the US Fuel Cell Market" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 20 Feb 2013

Polymer Implants Successfully Coated with Bioactive Film

Researchers from North Carolina State University have for the first time successfully coated polymer implants with a bioactive film. The discovery should improve the success rate of such implants – which are often used in spinal surgeries.

20 Feb 2013

Groundbreaking Contributions in Transition Metal-Based Catalysis Wins Norman Hackerman Award

The Welch Foundation today named Olafs Daugulis, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Houston (UH), as the 2013 recipient of the Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research. The award pays tribute to Daugulis for his groundbreaking contributions in transition metal-based catalysis, recognizing his leadership, creativity and commitment to science as demonstrated through his research and teaching.

20 Feb 2013

Researchers Answer Most Important Questions about Formation of Crystals

Exactly how a crystal forms from solution is a problem that has occupied scientists for decades. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with researchers from Germany and the USA, are now presenting the missing piece. This classical theory of crystal formation, which occurs widely in nature and in the chemical industry, was under fire for some years, but is saved now. The team made this breakthrough by detailed study of the crystallization of the mineral calcium phosphate –the major component of our bones. The team published their findings yesterday in the online journal Nature Communications.

20 Feb 2013

Global Collaboration to Develop a System to Liquefy and Recover Liquid Helium

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the University of Zaragoza and the U.S. company GWR Instruments announced today that they have entered into a global collaboration agreement with Quantum Design International to license, commercialize and further develop a system to liquefy and recover liquid Helium used in research, industry and medical laboratories worldwide.

20 Feb 2013

Materials Science News

Cabot Debuts New Conductive Additive for High Power Lithium-Ion Battery Applications

Control Magazine Recognizes Brooks Instrument with Readers’ Choice Awards

Comprehensive Guide on Materials Ageing and Degradation in Light Water Reactors

Malvern Instruments to Spotlight Polyolefin Characterisation Toolkit at SPE 2013

Materion Aerospace Metal Composites Nominated for NASA Group Achievement Award

PPG Industries New Aerospace Coatings Qualified to SAE International's Aerospace Specifications for Airline Exterior Paint

Fluor Secures EPCM Contract for BASF’s Toluene Diisocyanate TDI Complex Project in Germany

Renesas 40-nm RH850 Microcontroller Wins Golden Mousetrap Award

Kilopass’ Innovation in NVM Virtual Crosspoint Memory Wins Frost & Sullivan Award

Asahi Kasei Debuts Improved Long Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene for Automotive Applications

New Analysis of the US Fuel Cell Market

Polymer Implants Successfully Coated with Bioactive Film

Groundbreaking Contributions in Transition Metal-Based Catalysis Wins Norman Hackerman Award

Researchers Answer Most Important Questions about Formation of Crystals

Global Collaboration to Develop a System to Liquefy and Recover Liquid Helium

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