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Paper Thin Flexible Speaker Wins Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, accepted the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award ...

16 Oct 2009

Weather Resistant UV-Curing Coatings Made Possible with Allophanate Technology

UV-curing coatings formulated with urethane acrylates combine the excellent property profile of polyurethane (PU) systems with the efficiency of photopolymerization. Special urethane acrylates can be used to formulate we...

16 Oct 2009

Bayer Increases Range of Polyurethane Raw Materials for Waterborne, Radiation-Curing Coatings

Bayer MaterialScience has added three new products to its successful Bayhydrol UV range of water-thinned, radiation-curing coating materials. These are ideal particularly for wood and furniture finishing, which demand hi...

16 Oct 2009

Some Hydrides become Stable Metals under Pressure

From detailed assessments of electronic structure, researchers at the University at Buffalo, Cornell University, Stony Brook University and Moscow State University discovered that unexpected hydrides violating standard valence rules, such as LiH6 and LiH8, become stable metals at a pressure approximately one quarter of that required to metalize pure hydrogen itself; findings that were published in an October 5, 2009 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

16 Oct 2009

Gold Nanostars Discovered while Trying to Make Graphene More Useful

To functionalize graphene with gold -- thus controlling its electronics properties -- engineers at Kansas State University embedded gold on graphene. Rather than distributing itself evenly over graphene, the gold formed islands on the sheets' surfaces. They named these islands snowflake-shaped gold nanostars.

16 Oct 2009

Applied Materials and ITRI Collaborate on 3D Chip Stacking Technology

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Applied Materials, Inc. announced today a collaboration to accelerate the development and commercialization of 3D* chip stacking technology. To enable this...

From Applied Materials Inc 16 Oct 2009

Predicted Downward Trend in Steel Prices Materialises for Flat Products

The downward trend in steel prices, predicted by MEPS (International) Ltd. last month, has already begun for flat products in some European countries. Material has been in fairly short supply in recent months because pro...

16 Oct 2009

Prosthetic Hands Could Benefit from Tissue Engineering Developments

Modern tissue engineering developed at the University of Michigan could improve the function of prosthetic hands and possibly restore the sense of touch for injured patients. Researchers will present their updated fi...

16 Oct 2009

Goodrich to Develop Next Generation Lean Burn Nozzles for Rolls Royce

Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) has signed a research agreement with Rolls-Royce to develop the next generation of fuel nozzles for "lean burn" combustion technology systems, which would be used on future envir...

16 Oct 2009

PolyOne Sells Out of Columbian Vinyl Compounding Joint Venture

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced that it has sold its 50 percent equity interest in Geon Polimeros Andinos (GPA), a viny...

16 Oct 2009

Siemens Completes Implementation of AIS SteelPlanner at Chinese Steel Mill

The implementation of AIS SteelPlanner MES-System for the 2150mm Hot Strip Mill of Rizhao Steel in China has been finished by Siemens Ltd., China in July 2009. AIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of PSI since 26 August 2009...

From PSI 16 Oct 2009

New Class Leader in Steel Bellows Coupling

At first glance all steel bellows couplings seem alike; but on taking a closer look, we find substantial differences in the technical details. The construction, structure and manufacturing quality of the steel bellows are the main factors for operational safety, reliability, service lifetime, misalignment capability and functional safety of the entire coupling.

16 Oct 2009