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Linde Achieves Growth in Photovoltaics

Defying the impact of a depressed economy on market movements, the Linde Gases Division of The Linde Group closed 2009 with more than 6GWp (Gigawatt peak) of production capacity across its global photovoltaic (PV) custom...

From Linde plc 15 Feb 2010

Alcoa Provide Energy Efficient, Recyclable Materials for Vancouver Athlete's Village

Athletes participating in the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games starting Friday in British Columbia will sleep, eat, and watch sporting events in buildings that include Alcoa’s energy–efficient, recyclable and colorful Reynobond® aluminum composite material (ACM).

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 15 Feb 2010

Air Products Win Pretigious Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Award

Air Products (NYSE:APD) has been awarded the prestigious Rushlight Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Industry Award for its innovative Series 100 Hydrogen Fueling Station technology. The technology, which is helping break down barr...

From Air Products PLC 15 Feb 2010

Diamond-Based Nanowires bring Quantum Science and technology a Step Closer

By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team at Harvard has taken another step towards making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.

14 Feb 2010

Scientists Successfully Create Quantum States of Light

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles. It is even harder if these are particles of light - photons, w...

14 Feb 2010

Chlor*Rid Products Protect Steel

CHLOR*RID International, Inc., the world's leading source of soluble salt testing and soluble salt removal products, announced today at the PACE Show in Phoenix, that its Chlor*Rid line of salt testing and removal pr...

14 Feb 2010

Peratech Receive Funding to Commercialise Quantum Tunnelling Composite Technology

Further to its recent announcements of licensing agreements with Nissha and Samson Electro-mechanics for 3D input technology for mobile phones, Peratech Limited has announced that YFM Group managed Partnership Investment...

14 Feb 2010

Nortest Now Selling Dielectric Cure Testing Intrsuments from Lambient

Nortest are pleased to announce that they are now the UK representatives for Lambient Technologies a relatively new US manufacturer of dielectric cure monitoring systems for thermoset materials.

14 Feb 2010

Sniffer Sensor Developed with Unprecedented Sensitivity

By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor ...

14 Feb 2010

Nanofibers with Piezoelectric Properties Could Generate Electricity from Clothing

In research that gives literal meaning to the term "power suit," University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles.

14 Feb 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Transduction of Optical Radiation to Electrical Current

Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit. The system, an array of nano-sized molecules of gold, respond to electromagnetic waves by creating surface plasmons that induce and project electrical current across molecules, similar to that of photovoltaic solar cells.

14 Feb 2010

Unusual Crystalline Minerals May be the Key to Next Generation Computer Chips and Increased Data Storage

Two of The Florida State University's most accomplished scientists recently joined forces on a collaborative research project that has yielded groundbreaking results involving an unusual family of crystalline mineral...

14 Feb 2010

University Spin-Out Secures Funding to Commercialise Nano-Porous Adsorbent Hollow Fibre Technology

A green technology spin-out company from the University of Bath has secured funding of almost £750,000 from the Royal Society Enterprise Fund and local Business Angels including John Clough, former Chief Executive of Eaga Plc.

14 Feb 2010

Manufacturers of Photovoltaic Equipment will Found Individual Association Platform Companies join Competences to Strengthen the Industry

"The manufacturers of photovoltaic production equipment will found an individual association platform during the annual photovoltaics conference of the German Engineering Federation VDMA on March 30th in Frankfurt&q...

12 Feb 2010

FutureCarbon Develops Non-Dusting Carbon Nanotube Granulate

FutureCarbon has successfully completed development of a non-dusting carbon nanotube granulate that disperses by simple stirring. In its reaction and handling the granulate is comparable to soluble coffee. This development marks a breakthrough in the industrial use of carbon nanomaterials. FutureCarbon is marketing the product as CarboGran.

11 Feb 2010