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Using a Needle and Thread to Join Microfluidic Devices

Scientists in Australia are reporting the first use of ordinary cotton thread and sewing needles to literally stitch together a microfluidic analytical device - microscopic technology that can transport fluids for medical tests and other purposes in a lab-on-a-chip.

18 Feb 2010

Nanoparticle Treatment Boosts Organic Solar Cell Efficiency

A German team of scientists has developed a technique to treat nanoparticle surfaces. This treatment boosts the efficiency of organic solar cells. Presented in the journal Applied Physics Letters, the work shows how 2% e...

18 Feb 2010

Collaboration Develops MEMS Micro-Mirror Device for Next Generation High Definition Displays

The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Silicon Quest, Inc., a US-based fab-less company, today announced their partnership in the de...

18 Feb 2010

RHIC Experiments Provide A Better Understanding of the Structure of Protons

At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that provide a better understanding of the internal structure of the proton, the basic building block of all nuclei.

18 Feb 2010

Breakthrough in Predicting How Molecules Self Organize

Some classes of molecules are capable of arranging themselves in specific patterns on surfaces. This ability to self-organize is crucial for many technological applications, which are dependend on the assembly of ordered...

18 Feb 2010

Xennia Technology Present Its Process Demonstrator for Printing and Finishing of Textiles

Xennia Technology, a subsidiary of Royal Ten Cate, presents today its process demonstrator for printing and finishing of textile materials. This new nano process technology is based on inkjet technology, whereby ink or c...

18 Feb 2010

Experiment Shows that Gravity Slows the Flow of Time

While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly - a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity - a new experiment in an atom interferometer measu...

18 Feb 2010

Micromeritics to Introduce Significant Developments in Materials Characterization at Pittcon

Pittcon, one of the world's premier annual conferences devoted to laboratory science and instrumentation, takes place from February 28 through March 5, 2010, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. ...

From Micromeritics Instrument Corporation 17 Feb 2010

Alcan Composites Joins PPG Certified Metal Panel Program

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) announced that Alcan Composites USA, Benton, Ky., has joined its new PPG Certified Metal Panel Program (PPG/CMPP). Administered by the PPG coil and extrusion coatings group, PPG/CMPP is a ce...

From PPG Industries Inc. 17 Feb 2010

Learn About Scratch Resistant Clearcoat iGloss

The new, extremely scratch-resistant clearcoat iGloss not only provides auto bodies with a brilliant and robust exterior, but also gives them even longer-lasting scratch resistance. To achieve this leap forward, the rese...

From BASF Corporation 17 Feb 2010

Linde and Bosch Extend Silicon Solar Cell Manufacturing Collaboration

Linde Nippon Sanso (LNS), a company of The Linde Group, and Bosch Solar Energy, have announced an extension of their collaboration at Bosch's new crystalline Si solar cell manufacturing site in Arnstadt, Germany. Und...

From Linde plc 17 Feb 2010

Linde Help Manufacturers Improve Product Quality and Reduce Emissions

Fine and specialty chemical companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers looking for quality and productivity improvements while maintaining strict environmental controls and sustainability now have a supplier that can des...

From Linde plc 17 Feb 2010

US Vice President Talks about Solar Jobs at Hemlok Semiconductor

United States Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. visited Hemlock Semiconductor Group's Thomas Twp, Mich. world headquarters today. The Vice President toured the facility with: Stephanie Burns, chairman, presiden...

From Dow Corning 17 Feb 2010

First Reports of Profound Symmetry Transformations in the Hot Soup of Quarks, Antiquarks and Gluons

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons produced in RHIC’s most energetic collisions.

17 Feb 2010

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Uses Gold Ions to Generate Temperatures of 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius

Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference “atom smasher” at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius — the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory, about 250,000* times hotter than the center of the Sun.

17 Feb 2010