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SINTEF get Major Surface Analysis Boost

Scientists at SINTEF/NTNU and the University of Oslo have been awarded NOK 25 million by the Research Council of Norway for investments in equipment for surface analysis. "This will be one of the biggest and mos...

9 Feb 2010

Airgas Board Reject Take Over Bid from Air Products

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE:ARG) today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously determined that the unsolicited proposal from Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) ("Air Products") announced on Febr...

From Air Products PLC 9 Feb 2010

First Advantages of Dual Gate Transistors Exploited

At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Holst Centre, imec and TNO present a dual-gate-based organic RFID chip with record data rate and lowest reported operating voltage. For the first time,...

9 Feb 2010

Hexion Specialty Chemicals to Build Cardura Monomer Plant in Korea

Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., today announced that its board of directors has approved construction of a manufacturing plant in Onsan, Korea, to produce Cardura monomer, a Versatic Acid derivative used as a key raw m...

From Hexion Inc. 9 Feb 2010

Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Takes Full Advantage Malvern Particle Characterization System's Capabilities

Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Marietta, GA, USA) was the first company in the United States to install the innovative Morphologi G3 image analysis-based particle characterization system from Malvern Panalytical. They have since taken full advantage of the system’s ability to generate comprehensive particle shape as well as size information.

From Malvern Panalytical 9 Feb 2010

New Medical Grade Elastomers Available from Teknor Apex

A series of advanced medical-grade elastomers provide the first fully practical alternative to PVC for many tubing applications, it was announced today by Teknor Apex Company at MD&M West (Booth 2115).

From Teknor Apex 9 Feb 2010

New Company Launched to Supply High Performance Lubricants in the UK

Industrial Speciality Lubricants is a new company launched to supply Whitmore's high performance range of lubricating products in the UK. Based in the Midlands at the heart of UK industry, ISL has been appointed e...

9 Feb 2010

Niobium-Based Superconducting Devices Could Lead to Smaller, More Efficient Linear Colliders

“How much energy you can put into a particle per meter corresponds directly to how big the machine is,” says Steven Sibener, the Carl William Eisendrath Professor in Chemistry and the James Franck Institute at UChicago. This means that future accelerators must either grow to inconceivable sizes, at great costs, or they must somehow pump far more energy into each particle per meter of acceleration than modern technology will allow.

9 Feb 2010

World's Fastest Graphene Transistor Demostrated by IBM

In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion c...

9 Feb 2010

ThyssenKrupp Steel Jointly Fund Center for Electrochemical Sciences

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are jointly funding the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) at Ruhr University Bochum. The new center, which is also cooperating with the Max Pla...

9 Feb 2010

New Range of Plastic Containers for Petroleum Products Available from RPC

RPC Montpont has launched a new range of 5 litre plastic containers, including a U.N. approved co-ex variant ideal for volatile petroleum products.

9 Feb 2010

BASF Introduce New Pigment for Creating Orange to Red Shades

Paliocrom Brilliant Orange L 2850 is the first of a new generation of effect pigments from BASF. Exceptional brilliance and ultra-high chroma enable the creation of novel designs in the orange to red shade area. This...

From BASF Corporation 9 Feb 2010

New Composite Material Could Revolutionise Car Design and Manufacture

Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionise car design and manufacturing.

8 Feb 2010

Grpahene-Based Lighting OLED Products that are Fully Recyclable

With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. The invention, w...

8 Feb 2010

Near-Field Microscope that can Measure Optical Properties with a Spatial Resolution

Scientists of the research group of Prof. Dr. Alfred Meixner and Dr. Dai Zhang from the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Tübingen have developed a near-field microscope that can measure the optical properties of e. g. semiconductor thin films with a spatial resolution and sensitivity long thought unachievable due to fundamental physical laws (diffraction limit).

8 Feb 2010