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Smart Polymers Allow More Subtle Control and Timing of Drug Delivery

Better control over the delivery of drugs to specific sites in the body at specific times would reduce unwanted side effects and improve medical treatment dramatically. ‘Smart’ polymers are promising materials for controlling drug delivery, since they change their properties in response to specific stimuli.

2 Nov 2012

Global Thin Film Coating Equipment Provider Opens Subsidiary in Russia

Beneq, world-leading provider of thin film coating equipment for research and industry, has today announced its plans to establish operations in Russia and the CIS.

2 Nov 2012

SABIC Materials Recognized among Year's Best Automotive Plastic Innovations

Ford Battery Pack and Citroën Rear Quarter Window with SABIC Materials Recognized among Year's Best Automotive Plastic Innovations SABIC's Innovative Plastics business today commended Ford Motor Company ...

From SABIC Innovative Plastics 1 Nov 2012

Award-winning Coren Urban Bike from UBC uses Umeco Prepregs

UBC GmbH, based in Murr - Germany, recently launched their new urban bike, the coren®, which has a frame made exclusively from Umeco’s MTM®49 -3 epoxy resin systems reinforced with high tensile strength woven carbon fabrics and unidirectional carbon fibres, and compatible adhesive film.

From Umeco Structural Materials / Tooling 1 Nov 2012

Polytex USA Launches Polyurethane Coating Line for Artificial Turfs

Well in advance of next year's field installation season, Polytex USA has launched its new, high-quality Polyurethane secondary backing coating line. The line has been specifically designed and engineered for artificial turf applications and aims to significantly improve the tuft bind properties within the turf products.

1 Nov 2012

PEC Photoanode Structure Analyzed During Real Water Splitting Action

Hematite, the mineral form of iron oxide (or trivially, rust), is a promising anode material for photoelectro-chemical cells (PEC) because of its affordability, availability, high stability and good spectral match to the solar spectrum. Although it has the potential of a 15% solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency, its actual efficiency is lower than that of other metal oxides. This is due to hematite's electronic structure, which only allows for ultrashort electron-hole excited-state lifetimes.

1 Nov 2012

Sustainable Reusable Transport Packaging Alternatives for Hospitals

Novation, the leading health care supply chain expertise and contracting company for the members of VHA Inc., UHC, Children's Hospital Association and Provista LLC, is proud to announce that it is working with healthcare sustainability leaders to reduce excess packaging and cardboard in America's hospitals.

1 Nov 2012

Novel Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System with Bioabsorbable Polymer Coating

Boston Scientific Corporation received CE Mark approval for the SYNERGY™ Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System featuring an ultra-thin abluminal (outer) bioabsorbable polymer coating. The SYNERGY Stent is the latest innovation in drug-eluting stent technology from Boston Scientific. It is unique in that its proprietary PLGA polymer and everolimus drug coating dissipate by three months. This innovation has the potential to improve post-implant vessel healing and will eliminate long-term polymer exposure, a possible cause of late adverse events.

1 Nov 2012

LINE-X to Debut Body Armour Vehicle Protective Coating at 2012 SEMA Show

LINE-X Protective Coatings, the nation's leading developer and provider of high performance protective coatings, will feature a surprising vehicle unveiling in their 2012 Specialty Equipment Market Association Show booth #34135 today, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, at 3:00 p.m., in collaboration with the world famous design team from West Coast Customs. In an effort to showcase their product applications available beyond the traditional truck market, LINE-X will debut a new exterior application, LINE-X Body Armour on the LINE-X Camaro, a customized 2013 Chevrolet Camaro 1SS Coupe.

1 Nov 2012

New Solar Gard Facility in China to Focus on Architectural and Automotive Window Films

Solar Gard® a company of Saint-Gobain and global leader in the development, manufacturing and distribution of specialty films and backsheet materials, opened its new facility in Qingdao, China, today. Located in the Shandong province, the modern manufacturing plant was officially opened by Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman and CEO of the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, during a ceremony attended by a number of Saint-Gobain and Solar Gard executives, in addition to local and state officials and dignitaries.

1 Nov 2012

New Microparticles Self-Assemble Like Atoms into Molecules

Scientists have created new kinds of particles, 1/100th the diameter of a human hair, that spontaneously assemble themselves into structures resembling molecules made from atoms. These new particles come together, or "self-assemble," to form structures in patterns that were previously impossible to make and hold promise for manufacturing advanced optical materials and ceramics.

1 Nov 2012

New Advanced Software for the DELTA Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzers from Olympus NDT

Olympus Releases New, Advanced Software for DELTA Handheld XRF Analyzers Olympus NDT is pleased to announce the release of new, advanced software for DELTA handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers which provides three new analysis modes – GeoChem, Precious Metals and RoHS Plus.

From Evident Industrial (XRF) 1 Nov 2012

German House for Research and Innovation Center Opens in New Delhi

Initiative Promotes Germany as a Location for Research and Innovation / 14 Partners with DFG as Coordinator / Intensive Collaboration between both Countries.

1 Nov 2012

NASA Rover Curiosity Studies Mineralogy of Martian Soil

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.

1 Nov 2012

Nantero, imec Collaborate on Development of Carbon-Nanotube-Based Memory

Imec, a world-leading research institution in nanoelectronics and Nantero, Inc., a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices, have announced a joint development program. The collaboration will focus on the carbon-nanotube-based memory developed by Nantero, NRAM™, and its application in high-density next-generation memories with a size under 20nm. NRAM arrays will be manufactured, tested and characterized in imec’s advanced nanoelectronics facilities.

From IMEC 1 Nov 2012