Plastic electronics are promising affordable, mass-produced devices; however, plastic semiconductors have a significant defect: in the material, the electronic current is affected by “charge traps”. These traps have a negative influence on solar cells and plastic light-emitting diodes and are poorly understood.
By Nick Gilbert
30 Jul 2012
Pro-Green Company is a family-owned and operated company, which serves the North Carolina metropolitan areas of Durham, Raleigh and Charlotte specializing in renovation, green-construction, exterior and interior painting and home improvement.
By Nick Gilbert
30 Jul 2012
A sustainable fuels and biomaterials innovator, Edeniq has declared that its own Cellunator milling equipment has been running commercially at the corn ethanol facility of Plymouth Energy from the first quarter of 2012.
By Nick Gilbert
30 Jul 2012
Kuraray has declared that it will be taking over the US-based MonoSol, a manufacturer of polyvinyl alcohol (poval) film. This acquisition is part of the company’s strategy to promote one of its key businesses, its “Vinyl Acetate Chemical Chains Business”.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Jul 2012
Camstar Systems has declared that EMCORE, a manufacturer of compound semiconductor-based subsystems and components for the solar power and fiber-optics markets, will substitute a number of legacy manufacturing systems with the Camstar Enterprise Platform, which comprises Quality Management, Manufacturing Execution (MES), Statistical Process Control and more.
By G.P. Thomas
30 Jul 2012
Air Products, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology and equipment company, has declared that it will be expanding its LNG heat exchanger manufacturing capacity by building a second manufacturing facility at a new location in Florida-based Manatee County.
A research team at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute has created a first-of-its-kind transistor that utilizes the electrostatic build-up of electrical charge on a strongly-correlated material’s surface to activate bulk transformation of electronic state.
By Nick Gilbert
30 Jul 2012
A new report titled “Analysis of the Plastic Polymers in Medical Devices Market” has been released by Reportlinker.com.
MarketsandMarkets has released a new forecast report on the global silicone market from 2012 to 2017. The report categorizes the worldwide market for silicones on the basis of geography, type of silicone materials and applications.
By G.P. Thomas
30 Jul 2012
BASF, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, has released the results of its worldwide automotive color trend report. The report includes forecast of BASF color experts from Asia, Europe, South America and North America on the future automotive colors.
Metabolix, a provider of sustainable solutions to energy, chemicals and plastics industries, has entered into an agreement with Antibióticos, a producer of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), for manufacture of Mirel biopolymer resin. Under the terms of the agreement, Metabolix will produce its Mirel biopolymers at Antibióticos’ manufacturing plant in Leon, Spain.
Airgas, a distributor of refrigerants, specialty, medical and industrial gases, and producer of atmospheric gases, has launched an automated refrigerant reclamation technology called the Airgas Refrigatron system.
CEMEX has introduced its new international ready-mix concrete brand dubbed as Insularis, which offers a suite of ready-mix concrete products and construction systems designed to optimize buildings’ energy efficiency.
By Nick Gilbert
27 Jul 2012
Over the past one year, Viscom has reinforced its activities in the areas of semiautomatic and manual X-ray inspection and conducted extensive technical development of X-ray inspection for the electronics sector.
By Nick Gilbert
27 Jul 2012
Entropy Solutions, based in Minneapolis, has partnered with Encapsys, Appleton Papers’ subsidiary, to microencapsulate its 100% renewable-based PureTemp phase change material (PCM).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jul 2012