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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

New Product Catalogue For 2013 From Peak Scientific

Peak Scientific have recently released their new product catalogue for 2013. The marketing team have been very busy ensuring that the catalogue content has been revised along with the website, internal information and le...

From Peak Scientific 18 Dec 2012

Patent Filing of New Method To Measure Lead In Multilayer Coating From Olympus

Olympus NDT is pleased to announce its patent filing on a new method of measuring lead concentrations in a multilayer coating without the liabilities of radioactive isotopes. This new and proprietary SmartScreen&trade...

From Evident Industrial (XRF) 18 Dec 2012

Distinguished Young Rheologist Award Announced By TA Instruments

TA Instruments has presented the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award to two scientists: Dr. Anson W. K. Ma, of the University of Connecticut, and Dr. Ali Mohraz, of the University of California, Irvine. &nbsp...

From TA Instruments 18 Dec 2012

Fiat Adopts SABIC's Polycarbonate Glazing Materials for Automotive Window Applications

SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business is marking continued progress in the adoption of its polycarbonate (PC) glazing materials for automotive window applications with Fiat’s new 500L multi-purpose vehicle (MPV),which features rear fixedside windows molded fromSABIC’s clear LEXAN™ GLX resin and black CYCOLOY™ resin.These high-performance SABIC materials help reduce weight by about 35 percent, improve aerodynamic efficiency and achieve the desired styling vs. glass.

From SABIC Innovative Plastics 18 Dec 2012

UNSW to Lead Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Mineral, Metallurgy and Materials

The University of New South Wales has secured funding for one of six new Australia-China Joint Research Centres, which aims to meet the challenges facing the minerals, metallurgy and materials industries in both countries.

From University of New South Wales 18 Dec 2012

SBS-6000 Battery Analyzer from SBS

The SBS-6000 battery analyzer available from Storage Battery Systems (SBS) is a rugged handheld storage battery tester which serves as a complete voltage and resistance testing kit for batteries ranging from 1.2 to 48 Vdc. The analyzer relays test data via RJ45 or RS232 ports and complies with all IEEE/NERC standards.

From Exponential Power 18 Dec 2012