Hydration Technology Innovations (HTI) has reported that the company has manufactured a new thin film composite membrane, its latest addition to the OsMem Forward Osmosis (FO) membrane line.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Apr 2012
A panel of automotive technology professionals from the Society of Automotive Engineering selected Solutia to showcase the automotive glazing technologies at the “Innovators Only” exhibition in the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) World Congress of 2012, held from 24 to 26 April 2012 in Detroit.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Apr 2012
The Space Foundation has announced that a flexible light-weight aerogel insulating material has been inducted to its Space Technology Hall of Fame. Dr. George L. Gould, the Vice President of R&D of Aspen Aerogels, has also been inducted by the foundation to the Hall of Fame.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Apr 2012
ETREMA Products, a global provider of magnetostrictive materials like Terfenol-D, has announced that a Lucifer Furnaces High Temperature GT furnace has been installed at the company’s Iowa plant.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Apr 2012
Alexium International Group Limited (Alexium) announced today it has received a letter of intent from Duro Textiles, LLC to license Alexium's novel flame retardant (FR) treatment under an exclusive commercial agreeme...
A research team led by Qun "Treen" Huo from the University of Central Florida NanoScience Technology Center has developed a more accurate test that not only diagnoses the presence of prostate cancer but also the level of aggressiveness of the cancer, thus paving the way to treat the cancer more effectively.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
Neo Material Technologies, a producer and developer of rare earths, neodymium-iron-boron magnetic powders and zirconium based engineered materials, has opened a gallium tri-chloride manufacturing facility in Hyeongok Industrial Zone, Korea.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has awarded two new patents to Metabolix, a provider of sustainable solutions to the energy, chemical and plasticsindustries for the new,efficient production of industrial chemicals and biobased polymers.
Materials scientists from MIT and Boston College are developing a novel nanotechnology design to increase the electrical conductivity of a bulk alloy semiconductor such as Silicon Germanium (SiGe) by 30 to 40%.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
A team of physicists from the Rice University, University of California, Los Angeles, and two Max Planck Institutes in Germany has discovered that electrons violate Landau-Fermi liquid theory only at quantum critical points (QCPs) but behave as explained by the theory on either side of a QCP.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, has awarded a research grant worth SEK 3 million to Silex Microsystems, a pure-play MEMS foundry, to develop advanced ferromagnetic materials for MEMS devices for use in next-generation smartphones.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
Scientists have developed a new fabric coating that can actively shrug off dirt, acids, grease and other filthy matter. During testing they found that it had more water-repellent properties than Teflon or car wax.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
University of Southern California (USC) scientists have developed a method to produce stable, low-cost solar cells from nanocrystals.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
BASF, Foosung and Arsenal Capital Partners have declared that BASF has purchased Ohio-based Novolyte Technologies, a producer of electrolyte formulations for lithium-ion batteries. BASF has acquired Novolyte Technologies from Arsenal.
Allegheny Technologies has inked a long-term sourcing contract with GE Aviation to provide Rene 65 alloy.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012