US-based health care services company Cardinal Health will introduce a new unit-dose barcoded packaging for liquid medications that are taken orally and those that are presently not available in unit dose form.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Dec 2011
Chemical company BASF has announced that it will open a plant for the production of Ultrason polyethersulfone in Yeosu, Korea.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Dec 2011
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Grafoid and Focus Metals, Gary Economo has declared that Grafoid has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Rutgers University Advanced Materials via Immiscible Polymer Processing (AMIPP) Advanced Polymer Center to co-develop graphene-based technologies for both non-polymer and polymer applications.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Dec 2011
FSI International, a provider of surface conditioning devices for the production of microelectronics, has declared that two major semiconductor manufacturers have placed follow-on orders for FSI International’s ORION single wafer cleaning systems.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Dec 2011
Industrial Nanotech, a provider of energy conserving solutions based on nanotechnology, has selected Beijing Woven Energy Efficiency Technologies as its exclusive distributor for its Nansulate thermal protective and insulation coating products in China.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Dec 2011
Zhong Lin Wang, Regent’s Professor of the Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a 2011 Materials Research Society Medal for his technology innovations based on zinc oxide nanostructures on November 30 2011 at the society’s fall meeting conducted in Boston.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Dec 2011
Naturally Advanced Technologies (NAT) declared that it has signed a development and supply agreement with Target to assess the application of its CRAiLAR Flax fiber in Target's domestic textiles division.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
The production facility of Vertellus Specialties in Nantong, Jiangsu, China with a 10,000 t of 3-cyanopyridine manufacturing system has currently started the commercial production. This manufacturing system is an essential part of Vertellus’Asian growth strategy and is a vital factor for increasing the production capacity in Nantong.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
National Envelope, manufacturers of envelopes and portfolio of The Gores Group, has declared that it exclusively joins with TreeZero to develop the envelopes completely out of “tree free” paper. It is the first company to produce envelopes using TreeZero paper.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
Bamco, an award-winning leader in the composite metal wall panels’ fabrication and designing, has launched a cutting edge FABLOGIC I-500 panel, which improves and expands the products’ availability across the US national business industry.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
In order to study the toxic effects on skin by zinc oxide nanoparticles, the commonly used ingredient in sunscreen products, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Australia has devised an optical method to quantitatively examine the zinc oxide nanoparticle concentration level at various skin depths.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
Thin Film Electronics and Polyera have entered into a partnership for the development of organic semiconductor materials for the mass printing of integrated systems and Thinfilm Addressable Memory, paving the way for commercializing printed integrated solutions such as smart sensor tags.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
Researchers at the Juelich Research Center and the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have for the first time shown a transistor array based on graphene that can be used with live biological cells and can record the electrical signals generated by the cells, paving the way for studying the possibility of developing bioelectronics based on graphene.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
Imec and collaborators have demonstrated interdigitated back-contact silicon solar cells that have a high conversion efficiency of 23.3%. Schott Solar, Solland Solar, GDF-SUEZ, Dow Corning, Kaneka, Photovoltech and Total are imec’s partners in the silicon photovoltaic industrial affiliation program.
AVX, a producer of interconnect solutions and advanced electronic passive components, has expanded on its miniature GX-series ultra-broadband multilayer capacitors by including the new GX01 capacitor with a frequency range of about 160 kHz to 40 GHz, which will provide solutions for DC blocking concerns.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Dec 2011