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Voluntary Action Sees Brominated Fire Retardant Manufacturers Reduce Emissions

Potential emissions from brominated flame retardant production and user plants in Europe were significantly reduced last year, thanks to a voluntary industry programme. The latest findings from the Voluntary Emission...

28 Jan 2010

BHP Billiton to Acquire Potash Inc

BHP Billiton today has entered into a definitive agreement with Athabasca Potash Inc. ("API") to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of API at a price of C$8.35 cash per common share. Th...

From BHP 28 Jan 2010

Researchers Use Heating and Cooling Stages to Study Fluid Inclusions in Rocks

Heating and freezing stages are being used in thousands of laboratories worldwide. Applications may be found in just about all scientific disciplines from materials to foods, from chemistry to physics and biology. One area which continues to grow is the use in geology to study properties of the Earth.

From Linkam Scientific Instruments 28 Jan 2010

Master Bond Broadens Their Range of Protective Conformal Coatings for Electronic Applications

As conformal coatings are becoming more essential to electronic assemblies, Master Bond broadens their protective conformal coatings line with the addition of UV10LV. A clear, highly non-conductive, UV curing conformal coating, it is designed to restrain the impact of moisture, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes on electronic circuitry and components.

From Master Bond Inc. 28 Jan 2010

Miniature Insect-Like Robots Could Lead to Solid State Microids

A new approach in the design of miniature, insectlike robots could lead to "microids" the size of ants that move their tiny legs and mandibles using solid-state "muscles."

27 Jan 2010

Rubber Films and Natural Body Movements Could be Used to Power Electronic Devices

Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.

27 Jan 2010

Researcher Receives Presidential Award for Work on the electrical Properties of Graphene

Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, an associate professor of physics at the University of California, Riverside, received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at ...

27 Jan 2010

Elliot Scientific Sign Distribution Agreement with AKELA Laser Corp

Elliot Scientific is pleased to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with AKELA Laser Corporation of Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. AKELA is a high power laser diode manufacturer of custom multi-mode ...

From Elliot Scientific Ltd 27 Jan 2010

Brigham Young University Chooses Nanosight LM-10 for Inorganic Nanoparticle Research

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU) has chosen the NanoSight LM-10 system to support their research into the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles, principally metal oxides.

From Malvern Panalytical 26 Jan 2010

Highly Efficient Antennas that are Much Smaller then Conventional Antennas

In an advance that might interest Q-Branch, the gadget makers for James Bond, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners from industry and academia have designed and tested experimental antennas that are highly efficient and yet a fraction of the size of standard antenna systems with comparable properties.

26 Jan 2010

Photons that Move Faster then the Speed of Light

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, can speed up photons (particles of light) to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer.

26 Jan 2010

Graphene to Power Hyper Quick Electronics of the Future

The hyper-quick electronics of the future will require new materials and the hottest around is graphene - a single layer of carbon atoms. Graphene produced using a method developed at Linköping University is now bei...

26 Jan 2010

Micromeritics to Start Presenting Webinars on Materials Characterization

In 2010 Micromeritics will begin presenting a series of webinars that will highlight applications, theory, and instrumentation for a variety of materials characterization techniques. The first in this series of technical presentations will cover the Elzone electrical sensing zone particle size/count technique and its pharmaceutical applications with a live webinar on February 4 at 11 AM EST.

From Micromeritics Instrument Corporation 26 Jan 2010

JEOL's iPod Touch Enabled Mass Spectrometer Offers New Performance Features

JEOL's award-winning AccuTOF-DARTTM mass spectrometer, featuring the new iPod touch-enabled DART SVP ion source, offers a new set of performance features for accurate mass measurements in real time using advanced tim...

26 Jan 2010

Leading Touchscreen Manufacturer to Use Peratech Quantum Tunnelling Composites

Peratech Limited, the leader in new materials designed for touch technology solutions, has announced that Nissha, one of the world's largest manufacturers of touch screen technology, has signed a $1.4 million licensi...

26 Jan 2010