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Low-Cost Device Converts Farm Waste into Paper

Johns Hopkins engineering students won $15,000 in a national competition for adapting a traditional Korean paper-making technique into a low-tech method that impoverished villagers can use to make paper for their children's underequipped schools.

14 Nov 2012

Better Extraction of Xylan for Increased Biofuel Generation

After cellulose, xylan is the most abundant biomass material on Earth, and therefore represents an enormous potential source of stored solar energy for the production of advance biofuels. A major roadblock, however, has been extracting xylan from plant cell walls. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have taken a significant step towards removing this roadblock by identifying a gene in rice plants whose suppression improves both the extraction of xylan and the overall release of the sugars needed to make biofuels.

14 Nov 2012

University of Nottingham Awarded £2.9m Funding to Produce Low-Carbon Fuel

The University of Nottingham has been awarded funding of £2.9m to help make low-carbon fuel.

From University of Nottingham 14 Nov 2012

Collaboration to Implement Material Technologies in Innovative Printed Transistor Prototypes

Samsung Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. and PARC, a Xerox company, today announced a client relationship to apply and implement novel material technologies of Samsung Fine Chemicals in innovative printed transistor prototypes. PARC will build on its vast expertise in printed transistors in order to demonstrate Samsung's breakthrough material offerings that will enable novel display products.

14 Nov 2012

Metalloacid Surface-Coating Helps Control Spread of Hospital-Acquired Infections

A new study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control reports of a phenomenon that could help control the spread of hospital-acquired infections: a surface-coating of metalloacids kills off microbial strains, even in multidrug-resistant microorganisms.

14 Nov 2012

Miele Utilizes Outokumpu Stainless Steel for Washing Machines Components

Outokumpu stainless steel is used to make crucial components in Miele’s world-leading washers and driers. Miele’s washing machines have the longest product lives of all competing appliances according to independent German WfK Cleaning Technology Institute. Miele’s machines tested by WfK were the only ones to operate faultlessly after 5 000 wash cycles. This equals about 20 years of normal use.

From Outokumpu Stainless, Inc. 14 Nov 2012

Keynote Lecture At Pittcon 2013 To Be Delivered By R. Michael Barnett

The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce that R. Michael Barnett will deliver the Pittcon 2013 Wallace H. Coulter Keynote Lecture, "How The Higgs Boson Saved Us From A Cold, Dark, Lifeless Universe.&quot...

From Pittcon 13 Nov 2012

Three Awards For Olympus VS120 Virtual Slide Scanning System At International Scanner Contest

The Olympus VS120 Slide Scanning System has earned three first place awards at the prestigious second International Scanner Contest (ISC), which took place in Berlin earlier this year.

From Evident Industrial (XRF) 13 Nov 2012

Arkema Coating Solutions to Extend Reusable Bottle Lifetimes

This trade fair, held in Nüremberg from November 13-15, is an opportunity for Arkema, a global leader in returnable glass container coating technology, to communicate with the beer filling industry on its know-how i...

13 Nov 2012

DELTA DP-4050 Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer Satisfies Requirements Of The Radiation Emitting Devices (RED) Act

Olympus NDT is pleased to announce that the 50kV powered DELTA DP-4050 Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer for Environmental, Geochemical, Mining, and Exploration applications is now available for use in Canada. ...

From Evident Industrial (XRF) 13 Nov 2012