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Air Products Signs Long Term Hydrogen Supply Deal with Shell

Air Products (NYSE: APD), the leading global hydrogen provider, today announced it has signed a long-term agreement to supply hydrogen to Shell for one of the new units at its refinery complex near Rotterdam, the Netherl...

From Air Products PLC 4 Dec 2009

Air Products Completes Sale of Polyurethane Pre-Polymers Business

Air Products (NYSE:APD) today said it has completed the previously announced sale of the assets of its polyurethane pre-polymers business, marketed under the Airthane and Versathane tradenames to COIM USA Inc., a fully o...

From Air Products PLC 4 Dec 2009

Polymer Group Acquire Nonwovens Businesses from Grupo Corinpa

Polymer Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: POLGA; POLGB) (PGI) today announced it has completed the initial phase of the previously announced acquisition of the Barcelona, Spain-based Tesalca-Texnovo nonwovens businesses f...

4 Dec 2009

Thermoplastic Elastomer with Double the Adhesive Strength of Standard TPEs

Innovation by Teknor Apex Company has yielded thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounds with double the adhesive strength of standard TPEs when over-molded onto high-density polyethylene (HDPE) substrates, it was announced today by the company’s Thermoplastic Elastomer Division. The new technology will be introduced by Teknor Apex at MD&M West in February 2010.

From Teknor Apex 4 Dec 2009

Peptides Assembled at the Nanoscale Form Self-Cleaning Surface for Windows and Solar Cells

A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level that could make these futuristic visions come true in just a few years.

4 Dec 2009

A Single Phosphorus Atom in Silicon Used to Build a Transistor

Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region compos...

4 Dec 2009

Precise Way to Measure Hydrophobicity of Nanoscale Interfaces

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much - or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.

4 Dec 2009

Toyko Electron Join SEMATECH's Front End Processes Program

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) and SEMATECH today announced that TEL has joined SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex. The...

4 Dec 2009

Sumitomo Precision Products Sell 300mm Compatible DRIE Production Tool to CEA-LETA

SPP Process Technology Systems (SPTS) and its parent company Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd (SPP), leaders in plasma process technologies for manufacturing micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and advanced semic...

4 Dec 2009

Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Sorting Established in Brisbane

Rio Tinto and The University of Queensland have today announced the formation of the Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Sorting to be located at the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia. ...

3 Dec 2009

Comcast Building in Phildelphia Clad in Energy Efficient Starphire Glass from PPG

At 58 stories tall, Comcast Center in Philadelphia recently became the tallest LEED-certified building in the United States with an assist from energy-saving Solarban 60 Starphire glass by PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG).

From PPG Industries Inc. 3 Dec 2009

Malvern Zetasizer Nano Particle Sizer Helps Develop Tumour Targeting Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

The Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern Panalytical (Malvern Panalytical, UK) is proving to be an ideal research tool for advanced healthcare applications such as gene therapy and selective-target carrier molecules. University of Washington researchers say that accurate zeta potential and particle size measurements were critical to their successful development of fluorescent, tumour-targeting iron oxide nanoparticles.

From Malvern Panalytical 3 Dec 2009

World Economic Forum Names Metabolix in 2010 Class of Technology Pioneers

Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX), a bioscience company focused on developing sustainable solutions for the plastics, chemicals and energy industries, announced today that it has been named to the 2010 Class of Technology P...

3 Dec 2009

Meyer Burger to Offer Sales + Service for SOLARIS Thin Film Coating Equipment

Oerlikon Systems and Meyer Burger signed a strategic distribution and cooperation agreement for the SOLARIS thin-film coating equipment. As part of the agreement, Meyer Burger's sales + service organization will represent the SOLARIS for crystalline Silicon PV application in most regions, such as China , Taiwan , Europe, Middle East , India + the Americas .

3 Dec 2009

Heidelberg Instruments Receives Repeat Order for Maskless Lithography System

Heidelberg Instruments, GmbH, a leading supplier of direct write laser lithography systems, announced the repeat order for an advanced maskless lithography system by Toyo Precision Parts MFG. Co., Ltd, Japan. This system...

3 Dec 2009