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MesoCoat's Nanocomposite Coating Could be A Breakthrough for Oil and Gas Industry

MesoCoat Inc.'s PComP nanocomposite cermet coatings have been identified and selected as a breakthrough nanotechnology of potential benefit to the oil and gas exploration and production industry by EPNanoNet. MesoCoa...

13 Sep 2010

Lucifer Furnaces Supplies Sossner Steel Stamps with A Heat Treating Furnace and An Industrial Oven

Lucifer Furnaces, Inc. has supplied Sossner Steel Stamps, manufacturer of high quality, precision engineered marking and decoration stamps, with both a heat treating furnace and an industrial oven for their facility in Elizabethton, Tennessee.

From Lucifer Furnaces 13 Sep 2010

Kyma Technologies Signs Joint Development Agreement with SETI

Kyma Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of ultra-high purity crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) and aluminum nitride (AlN) materials and related products and services, today announced the signing of a Joint Developmen...

From Kyma Technologies 12 Sep 2010

Nanoparticles Used to Preserve Mayan Wall Painting of Archaeological Value

In a special issue of Chemistry—A European Journal, which contains papers by many of the speakers at the 3rd European Chemistry Congress, Piero Baglioni reports on the latest developments on the use of humble calcium and barium hydroxides nanoparticles as a versatile and highly efficient tool to combat the main degradation processes that affect wall paintings.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 12 Sep 2010

Kersten Kunststoffcoating to Display Rilsan Coated Parts at IFAT ENTSORGA 2010

At IFAT ENTSORGA 2010 (an international trade fair in the fields of water, sewage, waste and raw materials management), being held in Munich from September 13 to 17, Rilsan® coated parts by Kersten Kunststoffcoating are displayed at their booth.

12 Sep 2010

Megatons to Megawatts Program Recycled Weapons-Grade Uranium into Low Enriched Uranium

USEC Inc. announced today that the Megatons to Megawatts program has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium from Russia into low enriched uranium used as fuel in commercial nuclear power plants.

10 Sep 2010

Airgas Extends Supply Agreement with Kiewit

Airgas, Inc., today announced it has signed a three-year extension to its industrial gases and welding products supply agreement with Kiewit Corporation, a Fortune 500 employee-owned construction company consistently ranked as one of the country’s top 10.

From Airgas Inc. 10 Sep 2010

Construction Starts for Boral Composites’ New Facility in North Carolina

Boral Composites Inc., an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Boral USA, broke ground today on a new manufacturing facility located in East Spencer, N.C. The Rowan County facility is scheduled for completion in Se...

10 Sep 2010

U.S. Demand for Degradable Plastics to Grow 11% Annually

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: US Degradable Plastics Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p0286633/US-Degradable-Plastics-Market.html. US demand to rise nea...

From Report Linker 10 Sep 2010

Crown to Install New Aluminum Beverage Can Line in Cambodia Facility

Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, announced today that its subsidiary, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd., plans to install a second beverage can line in its existi...

10 Sep 2010

Air Products Announces FTC Acceptance of Consent Decree for Airgas Acquisition

Air Products today announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accepted a Consent Decree in connection with Air Products’ proposed acquisition of Airgas, Inc.

From Airgas Inc. 10 Sep 2010

Ultra-Low Maintenance Composite Decking to be Discussed at Principia’s Conference

Growth in demand for ultra-low maintenance composite decking is one of the hottest topics of the industry in 2010. Although overall decking demand remains sluggish, the ultra-low maintenance category is exploding. Pr...

10 Sep 2010

Blebbistatin Chemical Added with Animal-Free Coating Material Prevents Cell Death

Human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells can generate any given cell type in the adult human body, which is why they are of interest to stem cell scientists working on finding therapies for spinal cord injuries, Parkinson'...

10 Sep 2010

NSF Fund Helps to Launch New Program on Environmental Issues of Nanotechnology

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Howard University in Washington, D.C., have received a five-year, $3.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new interdisciplinary program in ...

10 Sep 2010

$Electron Diffraction Used to Study Photoswitchable Molecules$

Electron Diffraction Used to Study Photoswitchable Molecules

In order to tailor photoswitchable molecules for different applications, it is necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of the underlying reaction mechanisms. A team led by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail at Caltech reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie about their use of electron diffraction studies to observe a photoswitchable molecule.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 10 Sep 2010