A research team from the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy has created a new electrocatalyst using low-cost materials for the production of clean hydrogen gas from water.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
In a paper, ‘Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice,’ reported in the Physical Review Letters journal, a team of scientists from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) has for the first time explained about a mystifying water anomaly in ice.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
Nanoco Group, which develops and produces nanomaterials such as cadmium-free quantum dots, has announced the successful production of a batch of 1 kg green cadmium-free quantum dots for a key company based in Japan, generating $2million in revenues for Nanoco.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
PTC Alliance’s subsidiary, Enduro Industries has extended its license exclusivity term for Nanovate CoP, a nanocrystalline cobalt electroplating process developed by Integran Technologies, in the US market for fluid power by five more years.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012
An agitation is created on the micro scale by a strong laser pulse, when interacted with an atom. This results in single ionization, from which one electron is expelled out from the atom. Similarly, removal of two electrons from an atom leads to the complexity of double ionization process.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 May 2012
Anglo American Platinum, a producer of platinum group metals and Ballard Power Systems, a provider of clean energy fuel cell products are engaged in developing several early-stage motive and stationary uses of zero-emission, clean fuel cells in the South African market sector.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012
An international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins, A. Schulman, has planned to showcase its latest plastic product innovations at the Plast 2012 exhibition, which will be held in Milan, Italy from May 8 to 12.
By G.P. Thomas
10 May 2012
Asynt has supplied a leading European Contract Research Organisation (CRO) with a custom heating block system to assist chemists analysing the thermal stability of multiple samples being prepared for its commercial compound libraries.
ARBURG, a manufacturer of injection moulding machines, has launched a new website to reach the global customers through its information offerings and contacts.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012
At the American Coatings Show, Momentive Performance Materials, a company specialized in silicones and advanced materials, will exhibit its CoatOSilsilicon-based specialty additives.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 May 2012
Janelle Tam, a student from the Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has won the first prize in the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada for her discovery of a disease-fighting, anti-oxidant compound utilizing nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC).
By G.P. Thomas
10 May 2012
A team of researchers headed by Martin Wegener, a Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has created a prototype of a pentamode metamaterial, a stable crystalline metafluid, paving the way to realize several 3D transformation acoustics ideas such as novel loudspeaker concepts, acoustic prisms and inaudibility cloaks.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012
A research team from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a cooling technique using graphene multilayers to remove heat from gallium nitride, a semiconductor material utilized in various applications ranging from electric cars to traffic lights.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012
A research team led by Sandra Rosenthal from the Vanderbilt University has discovered a way to improve white-light quantum dots’ fluorescent efficiency up to 45%, a more than 10-fold increase from an initial level of 3%.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 May 2012
Research and Markets has included a new report titled ‘Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery: Global Market for Nanocrystals’ to its database.
By G.P. Thomas
10 May 2012