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ThyssenKrupp Wins Contract to Supply 15000 Tonnes of Steel for Egyptian Freighters

Egypt has awarded Düsseldorf-based ThyssenKrupp Mannex GmbH a major contract for the exclusive supply of 15,000 tonnes of various grades of steel plate, sheet and sections to be used in the construction of 24 new fr...

11 Feb 2010

Zircotec to Supply Thermal Barrier Coatings for Land Speed Record Attempt

Thermal barrier specialist Zircotec has been selected as an exclusive supplier to the BLOODHOUND Project, a land speed record attempt hoping to achieve 1000mph. Technical Product Sponsor Zircotec will work closely with t...

11 Feb 2010

Angstron Materials Awarded Patent for Meso-Porous Nanocomposites

Nanotek Instruments, parent company of Angstron Materials Inc., has been issued U.S. Patent 7,623,340 for its development of a new high-performing class of meso-porous nanocomposites. The new nanocomposite provides a sup...

10 Feb 2010

Silver Nanoparticles Could be Used to Power Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

Diamonds and gold may make some hearts flutter on Valentine's Day, but in a University at Buffalo laboratory, silver nanoparticles are being designed to do just the opposite. The nanoparticles are part of a new f...

10 Feb 2010

Zecotek LFS Scintillation Crystals to Trial for Next Generation Positron Emission Tomography System

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that its patented LFS scintillation crystals hav...

10 Feb 2010

Is the Masterbatch Industry Poised for Recovery?

Economic analysts are pointing to the recession drawing to a close in Europe driven by fiscal and monetary stimuli together with relatively resilient growth in Asia and Latin America. However, having survived the recessi...

10 Feb 2010

PI Show Off Latest 6-Axis Robotics Positioning System at MD+M West show

Nanopositioning specialist PI exhibits its latest 6-axis robotics positioning system at the MD&M West show, the world's largest medical design & manufacturing event. The miniature hexapod system provides more than 10 lbs of force and motion in all six degrees of freedom.

10 Feb 2010

Morgan Advanced Materials Supply Parts for Europe's Space Mission to Mercury

Morgan Advanced Materials is supplying ceramic/metal assemblies for the solar-electric propulsion system used in BepiColombo, Europe’s first spacecraft mission to Mercury, which is expected to launch in 2014.

From Morgan Advanced Materials 10 Feb 2010

Producing Defect Free Metal Components

When metals are shaped, the materials they are made of are often damaged in the process. One cause of this is excessive press force, which cracks and perforates the material. By running simulations on a PC, research scientists can now calculate how to avoid component defects.

9 Feb 2010

DuPont to Debut Twelve Engineering Polymers Designed for the Healthcare Industry

Twelve new grades of DuPont engineering polymers that meet demanding requirements for use in health care products and equipment are making their debut at the MD&M West exposition in Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 8 - 11. ...

9 Feb 2010

Breakthrough Discovery in Spintronics

Just as the heartbeats of today's electronic devices depend on the ability to switch the flow of electricity in semiconductors on and off with lightning speed, the viability of the "spintronic" devices of the future -- technologies that manipulate both the flow and magnetic "spin" of electrons -- will require similarly precise control over semiconductor magnetism.

9 Feb 2010

Exotic Form of Carbon Possesses an Extra Large Nucleus

An exotic form of carbon has been found to have an extra large nucleus, dwarfing even the nuclei of much heavier elements like copper and zinc, in experiments performed in a particle accelerator in Japan. The discovery is reported in the current issue of Physical Review Letters and highlighted with a Viewpoint by Kirby Kemper and Paul Cottle of Florida State University in the February 8 issue of Physics.

9 Feb 2010

Making Brittle Materials Ductile

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a way to make some notoriously brittle materials ductile -- yet stronger than ever -- simply by reducing their size.

9 Feb 2010

Ultratech Introduces New Lithography System for Semiconductor Manufacturers

Ultratech, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTEK), a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, today introduced its newest lithography system, the Sapphire 100 for high-brightne...

9 Feb 2010

The Most Environmentally Friendly and Resource-Sparing Energy Supply for the Future

Hydrogen-powered fuel cells and solar energy are the best hope for a more environmentally friendly and resource-sparing energy supply in the future. A combination of the two is considered to be particularly “clean”: the production of hydrogen by splitting water with sunlight.

9 Feb 2010