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Brooks Receives IECEx Certification for SolidSense II Pressure Transducers

Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of advanced flow, pressure, vacuum and level solutions, has received International Electrotechnical Commission (IECEx) certification for its SolidSense II pressure transducers.

19 Dec 2012

CCI Thermal Technologies Inc. Announce The Acquisition Of The Assets Of Fastrax® Industries Inc

CCI Thermal Technologies Inc., a leader in advanced heating and filtration solutions, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the assets of Fastrax® Industries Inc., located in Denver, Colorado. Fastrax® is the...

19 Dec 2012

Springer and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) to Collaborate on New Book Series on NIMS Monographs

Springer and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan will partner to publish a new book series NIMS Monographs. The series will publish titles on major and advanced research themes of the research i...

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 19 Dec 2012

Sandia Launches Sustainability Innovation Foundry

Sandia National Laboratories has launched a Sustainability Innovation Foundry that combines labs-wide resource conservation with efforts to turn research in fields related to sustainability into business opportunities.

From Sandia National Laboratories 19 Dec 2012

ARBURG Reduces Energy Consumption with IBM Infrastructure

IBM today announced that ARBURG GmbH + Co KG, a leading manufacturer of injection molding machines used to make plastic products, reduced its energy consumption for servers by 80 percent and for storage by 25 percent with its new IBM infrastructure.

From Arburg GmbH 19 Dec 2012

Legacy Electronics Becomes CMTL-Approved Memory Supplier for Intel NUC

Design engineers and system integrators working with Intel’s Desktop Boards Next Unit of Computing (NUC) family, previewed in June of this year, should know that Legacy Electronics is the first memory supplier to be INTEL® Advanced Tested through CMTL for this platform. Using an Intel® Core™ i3 processor on a 4-by-4-inch motherboard, the NUC is surprisingly small in size and an ideal engine for digital signage, kiosks, home theater systems and intelligent devices for small spaces.

19 Dec 2012

Customer Innovations Using Tensilica Dataplane Processors to be Featured at CES 2013

Tensilica®, Inc. today announced that it will feature innovations from customers that use the company's dataplane processors (DPUs) in smartphones, digital televisions (DTVs), and home entertainment systems at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

19 Dec 2012

ACS Video Tracks Formation of Snowflakes from Dust in Clouds

For everyone with holiday visions of snowflakes dancing in their heads, the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, today issued a video explaining how dust, water, cold and air currents collaborate to form these symbols of the season.

19 Dec 2012

AVX Upgrades MLC Radial Leaded Capacitor Series with Super Dielectric Option

AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has added an N1500 super dielectric option to its high-voltage, multilayer ceramic (MLC), radial leaded capacitor series. An extension of the SV Series, the new N1500 super dielectric capacitors take up less board space and offer higher capacitance values than comparable C0G dielectric capacitors and are ideally suited for applications including snubbers in high-frequency power converters, resonators in SMPS, AC line filtering, and high-voltage coupling/DC blocking.

19 Dec 2012

New Book on Modeling Ships and Space Craft

Since the dawn of civilization, man has gazed across the oceans and up to the stars with dreams of conquering both. What may surprise readers is that the principles behind how ships were designed in yesteryear are not so far from how today's air and space craft are created.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 19 Dec 2012

Stretchable Wires Made Using Liquid Metal

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning. The wires can be used for everything from headphones to phone chargers, and hold potential for use in electronic textiles.

19 Dec 2012

Cytec to Showcase Waterborne Resins and UV Curable Technologies at SSPC 2013 GreenCOAT

Cytec Industries Inc. is a Silver Sponsor of the SSPC 2013 GreenCOAT in San Antonio, Texas from January 14-17, 2013, and will be showcasing waterborne resins and UV curable technologies for protective coatings. Two presentations will be given, “Novel One-Pack (1K) Epoxy Technology for Corrosion Protection” and “Field Applied UV Curable Coatings for Concrete Flooring”, by experts from Cytec Coating Resins.

19 Dec 2012

Green Polymer Chemistry Conference to Take Place 19-21, March 2013 in Germany

The idea of making monomers and polymers from sustainable sources is rapidly becoming reality with many companies targeting R&D funds and investment in this field. The drivers are to save the planet, reduce carbon fo...

19 Dec 2012

Altera and imec Announce 14/10nm CMOS Technology Research Collaboration

Imec and Altera Corporation announced today a broadening of their strategic research collaboration in the framework of imec’s INSITE program. Initially focusing on technology insight into 3-D process technologies, collaboration between imec and Altera will now be broadened toward pathfinding process development kits (PDKs) for logic technology.

From IMEC 19 Dec 2012

Innovative Way to Design Metal Organic Frameworks under Completely Liquid-Free Conditions

Researchers at Aldrich Materials Science, a strategic technology initiative of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation have discovered an innovative way to design an important class of three-dimensional (3D) hybrid structures, Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), under completely liquid-free conditions.

From Sigma-Aldrich 19 Dec 2012