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SABIC Resin Helps General Motors Win Innovation Award

SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business is applauding General Motors Co. (GM) for being named the winner in thePerformance & Customization (Aftermarket) category of the Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE®) 42nd-annual Automotive Innovation Awards Competition.

From SABIC Innovative Plastics 20 Nov 2012

New Report on the Stainless Steel Market in Brazil and Latin America

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Stainless Steel in Brazil and Latin America" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 20 Nov 2012

Researchers Find Evidence of Mars’ Surface Material in Primitive Martian Lavas

A team of NASA scientists and their colleagues have found evidence from meteorites that Mars and Earth had a similar origin, but then the two planets evolved quite differently.

20 Nov 2012

Air Cushion Systems for Protective Packaging

Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter: Ready-made packaging solutions quickly prove to be inflexible, especially during the seasonal trade. The on-demand protective packaging solutions from my-packness offer a perfect alternative. They reduce both storage space and handling costs.

20 Nov 2012

RIT Demonstrates Advanced Manufacturing Equipment for Printed Electronic Devices

Printed electronics and related advanced manufacturing technologies have the potential to be a $45 billion global industry, according to business analysts.

20 Nov 2012

Researchers Study Silent Flight Capability of the Owl to Reduce Aerodynamic Noise

Owls have the uncanny ability to fly silently, relying on specialized plumage to reduce noise so they can hunt in acoustic stealth. Researchers from the University of Cambridge, England, are studying the owl's wing structure to better understand how it mitigates noise so they can apply that information to the design of conventional aircraft. They present their findings at the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, held Nov. 18 – 20, in San Diego, Calif.

20 Nov 2012

Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Wins Innovation Award for Breakthroughs in Battery Technology

Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, whose research has focused on the design of advanced inorganic materials and related devices, is the winner of this year’s Innovation Award in the category of energy and the environment for his breakthroughs in battery technology. The Innovation Awards are given annually by The Economist and sponsored in part by Huawei.

20 Nov 2012

Sprayable Coating Traps Outgassed Contaminants that Harm Spacecraft Components

Outgassing — the physical process that creates that oh-so-alluring new car smell — isn't healthy for humans and, as it turns out, not particularly wholesome for sensitive satellite instruments, either. But a team of NASA engineers has created a new way to protect those instruments from its ill effects.

20 Nov 2012

Closer to the Perfect Organic Semiconductor

Plastic electronics, in which an organic material replaces silicon, hold promise for low-cost, flexible electronics. But understanding and controlling these materials' microstructures is an ongoing challenge.

20 Nov 2012

Superconducting Fluctuations Vanish When Very Close to Absolute Zero

The next generation of sustainable energy systems, from magnetic storage to offshore wind turbines, hinges in part on high-temperature superconductors (HTS), which can carry current with zero loss and perfect efficiency. Unfortunately, that loss-free behavior comes at the cost of extreme and inefficient cooling, and the fundamental physics that governs the behavior of these remarkable materials remains mysterious.

20 Nov 2012

Olympus NDT Introduces the Latest Hardware and Software for the OmniScan MX2 Flaw Detector

Olympus NDT, a world leader and pioneer in industrial ultrasound phased array instrumentation, is pleased to introduce the latest hardware and software advances for the innovative OmniScan MX2 flaw detector.

From Evident Industrial (XRF) 20 Nov 2012

Metcar Grade M-58 Approved by the FDA for Food Contact Applications - Metallized Carbon Corporation

Metallized Carbon Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture of oil-free, self-lubricating, carbon-graphite materials for severe service lubrication applications, announces that its Metcar Grade M-58 has received approval from the FDA so that it can be used in food contact applications.

From Metcar (Metallized Carbon Corporation) 19 Nov 2012